National Board Exam: Funeral Service History

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Animalistic View
Early roman view of the afterlife where soul would hover around place of burial and required constant attention to be happy. Neglect would bring evil upon family
Babylonians
Culture associated with the practice of immersing the body of the dead in earthen jars filled with honey and wax
Barber- Surgeon
1540-1745 sole agency permitted to embalm and perform anatomical dissection in the city of London
Bloodletting
Belief/practice of draining a quantity of blood to cure illness or disease
Burial case
Generic American term for all burial recepticals
Burial Club
1800's London: cost of funerals were shared by others via weekly collections: forerunners of insurance
Burial in Woolen Act 1666
Required woolen cloths instead of linen, an attempt to shift imported linin to paper industry and supply customers for wool
Casket
Meaning jewel box: a ridgid container designed to encase human remains
Catacombs
Roman Origin: excavated cemeteries out of rock for the tombs of wealthy Christians
Catafalque
Raised platform used for a body to lie in state
Chadwick Report
1840s reporting unsanitary conditions in London due to intramural burials, high cost of funerals and the 1st use of death certificates
Edwin Chadwich
Investigated mass corruption in regards to English burial practices who recommended that cemeteries be municipalized and religious rites be simplified
Circle if necessity
Epyptian culture, the journey to the Sun and back which required 3000 years to complete
Coffin
Utilitarian container used to hold human remains: often anthropoidal
Cooling Board
Portable table where bodies where placed while corpse cooler was in use: later became home embalming tables