Exam 2 Notes

Question 1

The specialized function of organization and direction of a memorial to a personality according to custom and tradition of the community and in compliance with state law

Answer 1

Contemporary Funeral Service

Question 2

What is the purpose of funeral service?

Answer 2

To serve the living by caring for their dead in some dignified fashion

Question 3

The primary purpose of funeral service is

Answer 3

service to the living

Question 4

This will always be secondary to service in the funeral industry

Answer 4

Merchandising

Question 5

The ritual of funeral service is based on what?

Answer 5

Dignity and tradition associated with some form of organized religion

Question 6

Funeral service provides an opportunity for the bereaved to

Answer 6

Accept the reality of death

Question 7

The funeral service meets certain basic needs of whom?

Answer 7

The community, especially the bereaved

Question 8

The contemporary funeral service provides the bereaved with this

Answer 8

A period of gradual transition

Question 9

In the period of gradual transition, what do the bereaved do?

Answer 9

Gradually bridge the gap from death back to life, to normalcy

Question 10

In the future, for the funeral to survive and have meaning to survive and have meaning, what must it become?

Answer 10

A personalized experience

Question 11

To become a personalized experience, the funeral director must find a way to honor the life and person of the deceased which will allow the family to do what?

Answer 11

To grieve and give significance to a life that has been lost

Question 12

The funeral director in the future will be called upon to take on what?

Answer 12

A more active role

Question 13

The contemporary funeral service provides an opportunity for the bereaved to

Answer 13

Express emotion

Question 14

Reasonable expression of grief is

Answer 14

Healthy

Question 15

The therapeutic value of the funeral home experience is that it is a facility where one can

Answer 15

Let out there emotions

Question 16

The grief work process is resolving grief over three stages:

Answer 16

Normalcy - Death - Normalcy

Question 17

The contemporary funeral service provides an opportunity for the bereaved to receive what?

Answer 17

The comfort and solace of religious or humanistic belief

Question 18

For most of society, the funeral is still basically a _______

Answer 18

Religious experience

Question 19

The funeral is becoming less of a religious experience, with the exception being

Answer 19

African American experience

Question 20

The public views the funeral director and clergy as

Answer 20

Equal Partners in funeral service

Question 21

If there is a dispute between the clergy and the funeral director, who must resolve it?

Answer 21

The PRD

Question 22

The successful funeral director will always avoid disputes with the clergy by

Answer 22

Anticipating potential problem areas and taking action in advance

Question 23

Every religion promises this

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Some kind of afterlife

Question 24

This is significant because it offers comfort to the bereaved

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The fact that the soul goes on

Question 25

For any funeral director to tell a bereaved family that embalmed or placing the body in a gasketed casket or air tight, water tight vault will cause the remains to last indefinitely constitutes

Answer 25

Fraud

Question 26

Does a funeral have to be religious?

Answer 26

NO

Question 27

The deceased or the family may not have this

Answer 27

A church affiliation

Question 28

We must be prepared to provide this for those families not affiliated with any church

Answer 28

Meaningful services and ceremonies

Question 29

A direct disposition without a funeral service denies the community their right to

Answer 29

Affirm the worth and dignity of the deceased

Question 30

A direct disposition without a funeral service denies the community an opportunity to share this necessary experience

Answer 30

The reality of death

Question 31

A direct disposition without a funeral service denies the bereaved the opportunity to do this with the support of the community

Answer 31

Transgress through grief work back to normalcy

Question 32

A direct disposition without a funeral service psychologically denies that

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Death has even taken place

Question 33

Direct disposition without a funeral service is the cheapest, safest, but not the most beneficial alternative when all of these factors are considered

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Psychological and Sociological

Question 34

Who deserves a funeral?

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Everyone

Question 35

A funeral allows for the normal expression of emotion through this

Answer 35

Crying

Question 36

A funeral provides a freedom and a medium to

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Verbalize feelings

Question 37

A funeral provides support for this, provided by family and friends

Answer 37

Griefwork

Question 38

A funeral helps to emphasize the reality of death and the realization that

Answer 38

Death has occurred

Question 39

The funeral ceremony provides spiritual support, but does not necessarily mean this

Answer 39

Church/religious support

Question 40

This is always the result of a smooth running and well coordinated funeral

Answer 40

Comfort to the family

Question 41

Viewing of the deceased helps to establish

Answer 41

the reality of death

Question 42

What are the psychological characteristics of grief?

Answer 42

``` Shock Anger Change of attitude Remorse Self Pity Irrational thinking Fear of the future Envy of others who are not suffering Anxiety Guilt feelings ```

Question 43

What are today's perceptions of the funeral?

Answer 43

Plastic, barbaric | Expensive

Question 44

Sophisticated people feel that they are above the need for

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A public expression of grief

Question 45

The funeral is a vital tool in this process

Answer 45

Grief

Question 46

Funeral directors must move from professional arranger to

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a friend

Question 47

A good funeral director by his/her presence lets people know

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it's going to be ok

Question 48

A funeral director must be comfortable with

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tears

Question 49

Never adopt this attitude when designing a funeral

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keep the family under control

Question 50

The family should be be involved in more than this

Answer 50

merchandise

Question 51

Participation is a way of showing

Answer 51

Love

Question 52

Participation helps face

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Reality

Question 53

When word fail, what takes over?

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Ceremony

Question 54

Something which stands for something else

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Symbol

Question 55

Flowers are symbols of what?

Answer 55

That a person was loved

Question 56

Significance must be established so that the loved ones can

Answer 56

move on

Question 57

The family's grieving should never be trivialized with paltitudes such as

Answer 57

His suffering is over She is in a better place God will not put on us more than we can bear

Question 58

Funeral establishes

Answer 58

personal and social significance