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What is Cremation? What is the difference between a Crematory and Direct Cremation
Facility? - ANSWER Cremation: reducing human remains to bone fragments with heat
and evaporation
Crematory: area housing chamber for cremation and the holding facility
Direct Cremation Facility: place with a specific address devoted to direct cremation; only
cremation; no services held
Funeral Directors do _____? - ANSWER Prepare or contract embalming, cremation,
burial or disposal/ funerals
OR
Direct and supervise funerals, burials, cremations, or dispositions of the dead
Exclusions to the International Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards are
_______? - ANSWER People who shroud the dead
Cemetery employees who only work in the cemetery
Federal institutions
Offices of the U.S. Armed Forces
Native Indian pursuant
What are the duties of a Funeral Director who obtains unclaimed remains thought to be
a veteran? - ANSWER 1. Report the name to the Department of Veteran Services within
a year
2. (After receiving a report from the Department of Veteran Services saying remains are
a veteran); Arrange disposition with: national or veteran cemetery, Department of
Veteran Services
What is the Nevada Funeral and Cemetery Board? - ANSWER Two active directors or
embalmers
One active crematory operator