Funeral Directing TOP Exam Guide Questions and CORRECT Answers

Acknowledgment cards - thank you cards. Acolyte - an altar attendant. Adaptive funeral rite - a funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those directly involved. Aftercare - those appropriate and helpful acts of counseling, personal and/or written contact that come after the funeral. Al Ghusl (Ghusl) - practical and ceremonial washing of a deceased Muslim Alkaline hydrolysis - the reduction of a dead human body to essential elements through a water - based dissolution process using alkaline chemicals, heat, agitation, and pressure to accelerate natural decomposition; the processing of the hydrolyzed remains after removal from the alkaline hydrolysis vessel; placement of the processed remains in a hydrolyzed container; and release of the hydrolyzed remains to an appropriate part. Alkaline hydrolysis is s form of final disposition Allah - in the Islam faith, the name for God.