INDIANA STATE FUNERAL
EXAMINATION STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100%
CORRECT RATED A+
Alternative Container
✔✔ A container used for holding human remains that:
1. Is either rigid or flexible
2. Constructed from non-metallic materials
3. Lacks both decorative elements and an internal lining
Board
✔✔ Refers to the State Board of Funeral and Cemetery Service responsible for
overseeing industry regulations and licensure.
Branch Location
✔✔ A physical facility that meets the following conditions:
1. It is individually owned or leased by a person who also owns a licensed
funeral home in the same or a neighboring county
2. It is used for preparing human remains for viewing, funerals, or final
disposition (after the initial preparation has occurred elsewhere)
3. It hosts viewings or memorial visitations prior to or during memorial or
funeral services
4. It serves as a location for funerals that are not primarily religious in nature
Casket
,A rigid container that
1) is made of wood, metal or other material
2) is ornamented
3) has a fixed or nonfixed inner lining
4) is designed to encase human remains
Consumer
A person that discusses, offers to purchase, or purchases funeral goods or funeral
services for the individual's human remains.
1) during an individual's lifetime
2) after their death
Cremate
To incinerate human remains and to mechanically or manually reduce the bone
fragments of the remains to unidentifiable bone fragments.
Disposition
1) interment of human remains in the earth in an established cemetery
2) interment of human remains in a mausoleum or columbarium
3) disposal of cremated human remains on the property of a consenting owner, on
uninhabited public land, or on a waterway
4) burial of human remains at seas
, 5) delivery of human remains within the jurisdiction of the anatomical education
program to a school, college, or physician entitled by law to receive the human
remains for the promotion of science and art of medicine or dentistry
6) other final disposal of human remains
Embalmer
A person who is licensed as an embalmer.
Embalming
The temporary preservation and disinfection of human remains by the internal or
external application of chemicals or by other methods in preparation for
disposition.
Exempted Person
A person that does not perform any funeral services other than one (1) or more of
the following:
sells, as a seller or an agent,
1) funeral merchandise
2) cremates human remains, but does not conduct a funeral service in conjunction
with the cremation.
3) cremates human remains or holds human remains less than forty-eight (48)
hours for the purpose of cremating the human remains without a funeral service or
memorial service in conjunction with the final disposition of the cremated remains
4) performs services for a morgue, in a hospital, or other facility licensed under IC
16-21 that are directly related to the purposes of the hospital or other facility
EXAMINATION STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100%
CORRECT RATED A+
Alternative Container
✔✔ A container used for holding human remains that:
1. Is either rigid or flexible
2. Constructed from non-metallic materials
3. Lacks both decorative elements and an internal lining
Board
✔✔ Refers to the State Board of Funeral and Cemetery Service responsible for
overseeing industry regulations and licensure.
Branch Location
✔✔ A physical facility that meets the following conditions:
1. It is individually owned or leased by a person who also owns a licensed
funeral home in the same or a neighboring county
2. It is used for preparing human remains for viewing, funerals, or final
disposition (after the initial preparation has occurred elsewhere)
3. It hosts viewings or memorial visitations prior to or during memorial or
funeral services
4. It serves as a location for funerals that are not primarily religious in nature
Casket
,A rigid container that
1) is made of wood, metal or other material
2) is ornamented
3) has a fixed or nonfixed inner lining
4) is designed to encase human remains
Consumer
A person that discusses, offers to purchase, or purchases funeral goods or funeral
services for the individual's human remains.
1) during an individual's lifetime
2) after their death
Cremate
To incinerate human remains and to mechanically or manually reduce the bone
fragments of the remains to unidentifiable bone fragments.
Disposition
1) interment of human remains in the earth in an established cemetery
2) interment of human remains in a mausoleum or columbarium
3) disposal of cremated human remains on the property of a consenting owner, on
uninhabited public land, or on a waterway
4) burial of human remains at seas
, 5) delivery of human remains within the jurisdiction of the anatomical education
program to a school, college, or physician entitled by law to receive the human
remains for the promotion of science and art of medicine or dentistry
6) other final disposal of human remains
Embalmer
A person who is licensed as an embalmer.
Embalming
The temporary preservation and disinfection of human remains by the internal or
external application of chemicals or by other methods in preparation for
disposition.
Exempted Person
A person that does not perform any funeral services other than one (1) or more of
the following:
sells, as a seller or an agent,
1) funeral merchandise
2) cremates human remains, but does not conduct a funeral service in conjunction
with the cremation.
3) cremates human remains or holds human remains less than forty-eight (48)
hours for the purpose of cremating the human remains without a funeral service or
memorial service in conjunction with the final disposition of the cremated remains
4) performs services for a morgue, in a hospital, or other facility licensed under IC
16-21 that are directly related to the purposes of the hospital or other facility
