Cremation - Exam 1 Questions & 100%
Correct Answers- Latest Test |
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Cremation - Correct Answer-✔✔mechanical and/or thermal or other dissolution
process that reduces human remains to bone fragments includes the processing
and usually includes the pulverization of the bone fragments
Cremation (first evidence) - Correct Answer-✔✔First evidence of fire used as a
means of disposition: circa 20,000-26,000 years ago: LM2 or the "Mungo
Lady""botched" cremation
Ancient Greeks - Correct Answer-✔✔Circa 1000BCE in the Mycenaean Age
through 350 BCE, "fire burial" becomes an elaborate part of Grecian disposition;
Cremation "sets the soul free" to travel to the afterlife; Fallen soldiers get
elaborate pyres; remaining bones collected; easier to transport and entomb
with honors
ANCIENT ROMANS - Correct Answer-✔✔D27BCE to 395CE customs change with
earth and fire burial practiced; Romans developed grand columbaria; Practice
becomes dominant in first century after Christ
Constantine's Christianization of Europe - Correct Answer-✔✔Cremation all but
disappears for next 1500 years or so except in cases of plague; Burial becomes
accepted mode
,Henry Laurens - Correct Answer-✔✔1783-1st recorded pre-planned cremation;
Charleston, SC; 1792-Died and his ashes interred at his estate (1st formal
cremation in USA)
1873 - Correct Answer-✔✔Origin of Modern Cremation; Professor Brunetti
perfects his cremator and displays it at Vienna Exposition(CANA
1874 - Correct Answer-✔✔Sir Henry Thompson publishes Cremation: The
treatment of the body after death; Cremation is "a necessary sanitary
precaution against the propagation of disease"
BOOM - Correct Answer-✔✔- 1963 until present
1963 - Correct Answer-✔✔Ushers in the "Boom" era as Pope Paul VI ends the
ban on Cremation in Roman Catholic Church, cremation rate = 3.71%
1963 - Correct Answer-✔✔Jessica Mitford publishes The American Way of Death
1971 - Correct Answer-✔✔Telophase Society begins to offer "inexpensive" direct
cremation; U.S. Cremation rate = 4.78%
1977 - Correct Answer-✔✔Neptune Society enters this market ; U.S. Cremation
rate = 7.66%
, 1981 - Correct Answer-✔✔# of crematories approaching 500 and pop culture
begins to influence the "cremation" business; U.S. Cremation rate tops 10% for
first time in history at 11.01%
1984 - Correct Answer-✔✔FTC Funeral Rule enacted; U.S. Cremation rate =
13.06%
1994 - Correct Answer-✔✔Revised Funeral Rule into effect; U.S. Cremation rate
=20.66%
Funeral mass - Correct Answer-✔✔- Vigil > mass> Cremation > memorial mass
Memorial Mass - Correct Answer-✔✔- Cremation>Memorial>commital
1999 - Correct Answer-✔✔Ashes of JFK jr. and his wife; scattered off coast of
Martha's Vineyard; U.S. Cremation rate = 25.04%
2008 - Correct Answer-✔✔Comedian George Carlin dies and from a message
posted on his website CLEARLY EXPRESSES his wishes about cremation; U.S.
Cremation rate = 35.9%
April 2016 - Correct Answer-✔✔Prince cremated, cremation rate at or near 50%
Birth - Correct Answer-✔✔- 1876 until 1896
Correct Answers- Latest Test |
Graded A+ | Passed
Cremation - Correct Answer-✔✔mechanical and/or thermal or other dissolution
process that reduces human remains to bone fragments includes the processing
and usually includes the pulverization of the bone fragments
Cremation (first evidence) - Correct Answer-✔✔First evidence of fire used as a
means of disposition: circa 20,000-26,000 years ago: LM2 or the "Mungo
Lady""botched" cremation
Ancient Greeks - Correct Answer-✔✔Circa 1000BCE in the Mycenaean Age
through 350 BCE, "fire burial" becomes an elaborate part of Grecian disposition;
Cremation "sets the soul free" to travel to the afterlife; Fallen soldiers get
elaborate pyres; remaining bones collected; easier to transport and entomb
with honors
ANCIENT ROMANS - Correct Answer-✔✔D27BCE to 395CE customs change with
earth and fire burial practiced; Romans developed grand columbaria; Practice
becomes dominant in first century after Christ
Constantine's Christianization of Europe - Correct Answer-✔✔Cremation all but
disappears for next 1500 years or so except in cases of plague; Burial becomes
accepted mode
,Henry Laurens - Correct Answer-✔✔1783-1st recorded pre-planned cremation;
Charleston, SC; 1792-Died and his ashes interred at his estate (1st formal
cremation in USA)
1873 - Correct Answer-✔✔Origin of Modern Cremation; Professor Brunetti
perfects his cremator and displays it at Vienna Exposition(CANA
1874 - Correct Answer-✔✔Sir Henry Thompson publishes Cremation: The
treatment of the body after death; Cremation is "a necessary sanitary
precaution against the propagation of disease"
BOOM - Correct Answer-✔✔- 1963 until present
1963 - Correct Answer-✔✔Ushers in the "Boom" era as Pope Paul VI ends the
ban on Cremation in Roman Catholic Church, cremation rate = 3.71%
1963 - Correct Answer-✔✔Jessica Mitford publishes The American Way of Death
1971 - Correct Answer-✔✔Telophase Society begins to offer "inexpensive" direct
cremation; U.S. Cremation rate = 4.78%
1977 - Correct Answer-✔✔Neptune Society enters this market ; U.S. Cremation
rate = 7.66%
, 1981 - Correct Answer-✔✔# of crematories approaching 500 and pop culture
begins to influence the "cremation" business; U.S. Cremation rate tops 10% for
first time in history at 11.01%
1984 - Correct Answer-✔✔FTC Funeral Rule enacted; U.S. Cremation rate =
13.06%
1994 - Correct Answer-✔✔Revised Funeral Rule into effect; U.S. Cremation rate
=20.66%
Funeral mass - Correct Answer-✔✔- Vigil > mass> Cremation > memorial mass
Memorial Mass - Correct Answer-✔✔- Cremation>Memorial>commital
1999 - Correct Answer-✔✔Ashes of JFK jr. and his wife; scattered off coast of
Martha's Vineyard; U.S. Cremation rate = 25.04%
2008 - Correct Answer-✔✔Comedian George Carlin dies and from a message
posted on his website CLEARLY EXPRESSES his wishes about cremation; U.S.
Cremation rate = 35.9%
April 2016 - Correct Answer-✔✔Prince cremated, cremation rate at or near 50%
Birth - Correct Answer-✔✔- 1876 until 1896
