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Funeral Directing Cremation Questions &
100% Correct Answers- Latest Test | Graded
A+ | Passed
Reduction of a dead human body to inorganic bone fragments by intense heat in a
specifially designed retort or chamber.
✓ -:- Cremation
1. People are dying older.
2. More transient population
3. increase in migration to retirement locations
4. Regional differences are diminishing
5. Eduational level is rising
6. Enivornmental considerations
7. Origins of immigrants are changing
8. Less ties to tradition
9. Cremation becoming more acceptable (normal form of disposition)
✓ -:- Trends Affecting Cremation
80.7
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✓ -:- White female life expectancy?
77.9
✓ -:- Average life expectancy?
77
✓ -:- Black female and male life expectancy?
80
✓ -:- White male life expectancy?
1. Perceived as less expensive (saves money- 30%)
2. Uses less land/enviromental consideration (saves land- 13%)
3. Perceived as being simpler than burial (Simpler- 8%)
4. More options for memorialization (body not in earth- 6%)
5. Perceived as modern (preference 6%)
✓ -:- Primary Reasons for selecting cremation
The chemical reastion between fuel and oxygen, releasing heat and light.
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✓ -:- Combustion Definition
Human Remains - 85 % water
✓ -:- Principles of Combustion
1. Fuel
2. Water
3. Heat
✓ -:- 3 elements needed for combustion
1.In the case of cremation - the human remains and its container would be considered the
fuel
2.Body fat burns easily and quickly. Human remains having lower body fat levels have lower
fuels values.
3.Each human body and its container will be different with every casein the cremation
chamber.
✓ -:- Fuel
1.Second element needed for combustion
2.Comes from the atmosphere with air jets, burners, or in adjustable air openings
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Funeral Directing Cremation Questions &
100% Correct Answers- Latest Test | Graded
A+ | Passed
Reduction of a dead human body to inorganic bone fragments by intense heat in a
specifially designed retort or chamber.
✓ -:- Cremation
1. People are dying older.
2. More transient population
3. increase in migration to retirement locations
4. Regional differences are diminishing
5. Eduational level is rising
6. Enivornmental considerations
7. Origins of immigrants are changing
8. Less ties to tradition
9. Cremation becoming more acceptable (normal form of disposition)
✓ -:- Trends Affecting Cremation
80.7
1|Page | Grade A+| 2024/2025
,2024 /2025 | © copyright | This work may not be copied for profit gain | Excel!
✓ -:- White female life expectancy?
77.9
✓ -:- Average life expectancy?
77
✓ -:- Black female and male life expectancy?
80
✓ -:- White male life expectancy?
1. Perceived as less expensive (saves money- 30%)
2. Uses less land/enviromental consideration (saves land- 13%)
3. Perceived as being simpler than burial (Simpler- 8%)
4. More options for memorialization (body not in earth- 6%)
5. Perceived as modern (preference 6%)
✓ -:- Primary Reasons for selecting cremation
The chemical reastion between fuel and oxygen, releasing heat and light.
2|Page | Grade A+| 2024/2025
, 2024 /2025 | © copyright | This work may not be copied for profit gain | Excel!
✓ -:- Combustion Definition
Human Remains - 85 % water
✓ -:- Principles of Combustion
1. Fuel
2. Water
3. Heat
✓ -:- 3 elements needed for combustion
1.In the case of cremation - the human remains and its container would be considered the
fuel
2.Body fat burns easily and quickly. Human remains having lower body fat levels have lower
fuels values.
3.Each human body and its container will be different with every casein the cremation
chamber.
✓ -:- Fuel
1.Second element needed for combustion
2.Comes from the atmosphere with air jets, burners, or in adjustable air openings
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