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Code of Ethics - correct answer ✔✔ Self-imposed rules of conduct specific to the group only.
Culture - correct answer ✔✔ the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual
achievement regarded collectively.
the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other
social group.
Direct Disposer - correct answer ✔✔ An individual who is registered by a state agency to
perform only basic disposition with no accompanying funeral or other service.
Embalmer - correct answer ✔✔ A person, properly licensed, who disinfects, preserves, or
restores a dead human body.
Ethics - correct answer ✔✔ The principles of morality including both the science of good and
nature of right.
Ethical Behavior - correct answer ✔✔
Funeral Director - correct answer ✔✔ An individual, licensed by a state or states to prepare
dead human remains, other than by embalming, for disposition to conduct funeral services and
to counsel survivors.
,Funeral Home - correct answer ✔✔ A building designed specifically for the care of the dead and
the serving of the family who will arrange the service and ceremonies for the burial of the dead.
Golden Rule - correct answer ✔✔ treat others the way you want to be treated
Honesty - correct answer ✔✔ the quality of being honest.
Integrity - correct answer ✔✔ the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles;
moral uprightness.
Or the state of being whole and undivided.
Law - correct answer ✔✔ the system of rules which a particular country or community
recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition
of penalties.
Morgue - correct answer ✔✔ A place where dead human bodies are kept pending identification
by relatives.
Mortician - correct answer ✔✔ Funeral director-embalmer; a coined word to designate the
"caretaker" of the dead (most commonly used term: funeral director).
Mortuary - correct answer ✔✔ A building designed specifically for the care of the dead and the
serving of the family who will arrange the service and ceremonies for the burial of the dead
(most commonly used term: funeral home).
Define the term funeral director. - correct answer ✔✔ An individual, licensed by a state or states
to prepare dead human remains, other than by embalming, for disposition to conduct funeral
services and to counsel survivors.
,Define the term embalmer. - correct answer ✔✔ A person, properly licensed, who disinfects,
preserves, or restores a dead human body.
Differentiate between funeral home and morgue. - correct answer ✔✔ morgue:
place where dead human bodies are kept pending ID by relatives
funeral home:
building designed to take care of dead and serving the family who will arrange the services for
the burial of the dead
Define the term ethics. - correct answer ✔✔ The principles of morality including both the
science of good and nature of right.
branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the
rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and
ends of such actions.
Define the concept of Code of Ethics. - correct answer ✔✔ a declaration or public statement of
pro standards or right/wrong conduct; self-imposed rules of conduct specific to the group only
Self-imposed rules of conduct specific to the group only.
Define the concept of the Golden Rule - correct answer ✔✔ treat others the way you want to
be treated
Differentiate between laws and ethics. - correct answer ✔✔ Laws:
, - are formal written documents- imposed by society - focus on acts/conduct with the interest of
society- generally refers to man-made rules and regulations that govern society and are
concerned with conduct
Ethics:
- are unwritten principles- imposed internally - focused on motives for behavior and with
interest of the individual and society- rightness and wrongness of actions- goodness and
badness of motives
Culture is influenced by what three things? - correct answer ✔✔ - family relationships
- religious background or lack thereof
- citizenship
Identify the three levels of ethical decision making according to the textbook. - correct answer
✔✔ Level I:
Pre-Conventional - is the action legal? If no, action is considered illegal and unethical
Level II:
Conventional - is the action fair to all involved? If not, then it should be considered unethical.
Just because an action is legal doesn't mean its right and may be considered unethical
Level III:
Conventional, Principled - does the behavior make you feel better? Not everyone will agree on
what is right and fair. If answer is no or you don't feel good about the behavior, it may be
unethical. Ethical decisions get personal because one's conscious is taken into consideration
when making the decision
define Code of Ethics - correct answer ✔✔ Self-imposed rules of conduct specific to the group
only.