- ALGOR MORTIS - The cooling of the body immediately
after death to room temperature and temporary stiffening of the
muscles.
- AMBULANCE - An automotive
vehicle especially constructed and equipped to
transport injured, sick or incapacitated persons.
- APPRENTICE - The name generally applied to an
individual learning the embalming and funeral directing procedure under
the supervision of a licensee.
- ARRANGEMENT ROOM - A room of the funeral home used to
make the necessary funeral arrangements with the family of the deceased.
- ASPIRATE - Process of withdrawing fluids and
gases from the abdominal cavity.
- BACKGROUND DRAPES - Decorative drapes (usually made of
velour) arranged on a frame and placed behind the casket as a background,
- BEREAVED - (N) The immediate family of
the deceased. (V) suffering from grief upon the death of a loved
one.
- BURIAL - Placing of a dead body in an
underground chamber - earth burial- interment
- BURIAL CERTIFICATE OR PERMIT - A legal paper issued by the local
government authorizing burial. The permit may authorize earth burial or
cremation or removal to a distant point.
- BURIAL GARMENTS - Wearing apparel made especially for
the dead.
- BURIAL INSURANCE - An insurance policy in which the principal is paid in a
funeral service and merchandise rather than cash.
- BURIAL VAULT - A boxlike container for holding a
casket for earth burial; the more substantial vault or a liner is required
by most cemeteries to prevent the collapse of a grave after burial.
- CANOPY - A roof like structure projecting
from the outside wall over the driveway allowing passengers to board and
alight from vehicles without being directly exposed to the elements -
sometimes construed as a portable canvas shelter used to cover the grave
area during committal service.
- CASH ADVANCE ITEMS - Goods and services furnished by a third party and paid
for by the funeral director on your behalf.
- CASKET - A receptacle of wood, metal or
plastic into which the dead human body is placed for burial. Sometimes
referred to as "coffin" or "burial case"
- CASKET COACH - Hearse - A motor coach designed and
used for the conveyance of the casketed remains from the place the funeral
service is conducted to the cemetery. Also known as a Funeral Coach.
- CASKETING - Placing of the body in the casket
upon completion of embalming, dressing and cosmetizing.
- CASKET RACK - A device which allows caskets to be
placed one on top of the other for display purposes.
- CASKET VEIL - A silk or net transparent covering
for the casket for the purpose of keeping flies and other insects from the
remains.
- CATAFALQUE - A stand upon which the casketed
remains rest while instate and during the funeral service.
- CEMETERY - An area of ground set aside for
burial or entombment of the deceased.
- CENOTAPH - An empty tomb or monument erected in
memory or a person buried elsewhere.
- CERTIFIED DEATH CERTIFICATE - A legalized copy of the original
certificate, issued upon request by the local government for the purpose
of substantiating various claims by the family of the deceased such as
insurance and other death benefits.
- CHAPEL - A large room of the funeral home in
which the farewell service is held.
- CHURCH TRUCK - A collapsible catafalque used for
funerals.
- CLIENTS - Those who employ the services of the funeral director.
- COFFIN - A wedge shaped burial case, usually
eight- sided.
- COLUMBARIUM - A structure of vaults lined with
recesses for urns containing cremated remains.
- COMMITTAL SERVICE - The final portion of the funeral
service at which time the deceased is interred or entombed.
- CONTAINER - A pressboard or fiberboard box the
size of a casket usually used for immediate/direct cremations; alternative
container.
- CORONER - A public official and in some cases
a constitutional officer whose duty it is to investigate the case of death
if it appears to be from other than natural causes, or if there was no
physician in attendance for a long time prior to death.
- CORTEGE - The funeral procession.
- COSMETOLOGY - Utilization of cosmetics to restore
life like appearance to the deceased.
- CREMAINS - The remains of a body after
cremation; cremated remains.
- CREMATION - A process which reduces the body by
heat to small bone fragments. When the fragments are pulverized, they are
reduced to the consistency of coarse sand or crushed seashells.
- CREMATION PERMIT - A certificate issued by local
government authorizing cremation of the deceased.
- CREMATORY - A building with a furnace called a
retort which is used to cremate human remains (or the furnace/retort
itself)
- CRYPT - A vault or room used for keeping
remains.
- COT - The stretcher-like carrier used to
remove deceased persons from the place of death to the funeral home.
- DEATH - Cessation of all vital functions
without the capability of resuscitation.
- DEATH CERTIFICATE - A legal paper signed by the attending
physician showing the cause of death and other vital statistical data
pertaining to the deceased.
- DEATH NOTICE - That paragraph in the classified
section of a newspaper publicizing the death of a person and giving those
details of the funeral service the survivors wish to have published. Most
such notices list the names of the relatives of the deceased.
- DECEASED - (N) one in whom all physical
life has ceased; (V) dead.
- DIRECT BURIAL - The body is transferred from the
place of death to the funeral home, placed in a casket and then delivered
directly to the burial site. There is no public viewing or graveside
services.
- DIRECT CREMATION - The body is transferred from the
place of death to the funeral home, placed in a container and delivered
directly to a crematory. There is no public viewing.
- DISINTER - To remove the remains from the
burial place; to dig up.
- DISPLAY ROOM - That room in the funeral home in
which caskets, Urns, burial garments and sometimes vaults are displayed.
- DISPOSITION - The final resting place for the body
or for cremated remains. Choices include burial of the body in the earth
or a mausoleum; burial, scattering or deposit of cremated remains in an
urn for placement in a niche or taking home; donation of the body to a
research facility; or burial at sea (not permitted in the Great Lakes).
- DOOR BADGE - A floral spray placed on the door of
a residence wherein death has occurred.
- EARTH BURIAL - Interment of a body in a grave.
- EMBALM - The process of sanitizing,
disinfecting and temporarily preserving a dead body by means of
circulating preservative and antiseptic through the veins and arteries.
- EMBALMER - One who disinfects or preserves dead
human bodies by the injection or external application of antiseptics,
disinfectants or preservative fluids; prepares human bodies for
transportation which are dead of contagious or infectious diseases; or
uses derma surgery or plastic art for restoring mutilated features.
- EMBALMING FLUID - Liquid chemicals used in preserving
a dead body.
- EMBALMING TABLE - An operating table usually
constructed of metal with a porcelain surface upon which the remains are
placed for embalming.
- ENTOMBMENT - Placement of the body in a casket
above ground in a mausoleum.
- ETHICS - The moral code which guides the
members of the profession in proper conduct of their duties and
obligations.
- EXHUME - To dig up the remains; to remove
from the place of burial.
- FAMILY CAR - That limousine in the funeral
procession set aside for the use of the immediate family.
- FAMILY ROOM - A specially arranged room in the
funeral home which affords the family privacy at the time of the funeral
service.
- FLOWER CAR - A vehicle used for the
transportation of flower pieces from the funeral home to the church and/or
cemetery.
- FLOWER RACKS AND STANDS - Wooden or metal stands and racks of
varying heights used for banking flowers around the casket.
- FINAL RITES - The funeral service.
- FIRST CALL - The initial visit of the funeral
director to the place of death for the purpose of removing the deceased
and to secure certain information for which he has immediate need.
- FUNERAL COACH - See Casket Coach.
- FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS - Funeral director's conference with
the family for the purpose of completing financial and service details of
a funeral.
- FUNERAL DIRECTOR - A professional who prepares for the
burial or other disposition of dead human bodies, supervises such burial
or disposition, maintains a funeral establishment for such purposes,
counsels with survivors. Synonym: mortician, undertaker.
- FUNERAL HOME - A building used for the purpose of
embalming, arranging and conducting funerals.
- FUNERAL SERVICE - 1) The profession which deals with
the handling of dead human bodies; 2) The religious or other rites
conducted immediately before final disposition of the dead human body.
- FUNERAL SPRAY - A collective mass of cut flowers
sent to the residence of the deceased or to the funeral home as a floral
tribute to the deceased.
- GRAVE - An excavation in the earth for the
purpose of burying the deceased .
- GRAVE LINER - A receptacle made of concrete, metal
or wood into which the casket is placed as an extra precaution in
protecting the remains from the elements. This is required by most
cemeteries to prevent the collapse of a grave after burial. State law,
however, usually does not require a grave liner.
- GRAVE (OR MEMORIAL) MARKER - A method of identifying the occupant
of a particular grave. Permanent grave markers are usually of metal or
stone which gives such data as the name of the individual, date and place
of birth, date and place of death.
- GRAVESIDE SERVICES - Formal committal services conducted
at the cemetery.
- HONORARY PALLBEARERS - Friends or members of a religious,
social or fraternal organization who act as an escort or honor guard for
the deceased. Honorary pallbearers do not carry the casket.
- HOSPICE - An organization, staffed mainly by
volunteers, dedicated to the care of the terminally ill who choose to die
at home.
- INQUEST - An official inquiry or examination
usually before a jury to determine the case of death.
- IN STATE - The custom of availing the deceased
for viewing by relatives and friends prior to or after the funeral
service.
- INSTRUMENTS - The varied tools required in the
embalming operation.
- INTER (to) - To bury a dead body in the earth in
a grave or tomb.
- INTERMENT - The act of burial.
- INURNMENT - The placing of the ashes of one
cremated in an urn.
- LEAD CAR - The vehicle in which the funeral
director and sometimes the clergyman rides. When the procession is formed,
the lead car moves to the head of it and leads the procession to the
church and/or cemetery.
- LICENSE - An authorization from the state
granting permission to perform duties which, without such permission,
would be illegal.
- LIMOUSINE - An automobile designed to seat five
or more persons behind the driver's seat.
- LOWERING DEVICE - A mechanism used for lowering the
casket into the grave. Apparatus is placed over the open grave which has
two or more straps which support the casket over the opening. Upon release
of the mechanism, the straps unwind from a cylinder and slowly lower the
casket into the grave.
- MAUSOLEUM - A public or private building
especially designed to receive entombments. A permanent above ground
resting place for the dead.
- MARKER - A monument or memorial to mark the
place of burial.
- MEDICAL EXAMINER - A government official, usually
appointed, who has a thorough medical knowledge and whose function is to
perform an autopsy on bodies dead from violence, suicide, crime, etc., and
to investigate circumstances of death.
- MEMORIAL SERVICE - A religious service conducted in
memory of the deceased without the remains being present.
- MINISTER'S ROOM - A room in the funeral home set aside
for the clergyman wherein he can robe and make any last minute
preparations for the funeral service.
- MORGUE - A place to where bodies found dead
are removed and exposed pending identification by relatives.
- MORTICIAN - See funeral director.
- MORTUARY - A synonym for funeral home - a
building specifically designed and constructed for caring for the dead.
- MORTUARY SCIENCE - That part of the funeral service
profession dealing with the proper preparation of the body for final
disposition.
- MOURNER - One who is present at the funeral
out of affection or respect for the deceased.
- NICHE - A shell-like space in a wall made
for the placing of urns containing cremated remains, or inside a building
for this purpose which is called a columbarium. Urns are placed in these
niches as a final resting place for cremated remains.
- OBITUARY - A brief notice of the death of a
person, particularly a newspaper notice, which usually lists the name of
the deceased, the age, and a biographical sketch. Newspapers may or may
not charge for publishing obituaries.
- PALLBEARERS - Individuals whose duty is to carry
the casket when necessary during funeral service. Pallbearers in some
sections of the country are hired and in other sections are close friends
and relatives of the deceased.
- PLOT - A specific area of ground in a
cemetery owned by a family or individual. A plot usually contains two or
more graves.
- PREARRANGED FUNERAL - Funeral arrangements completed by an
individual prior to his/her death.
- PREARRANGED FUNERAL TRUST - A method by which an individual can
pre-pay their funeral expenses.
- PREFUNDING - Same as prearrangement defined
above, except that the funding for the funeral is paid in advance either
through a trust or life insurance.
- PRENEED, PREARRANGING or PREPLANNING - Planning a funeral in advance of the
death, usually consisting of a list of your preferences for funeral
arrangements.
- PREPARATION ROOM - A room in a funeral home designed
and equipped for preparing the deceased for final disposition,
- PREPARATION TABLE - An operating table located in the
preparation room upon which the body is placed for embalming and dressing.
- PRICE LIST - An itemized list of funeral goods
and services.
- PROCESSION - The vehicular movement of the
funeral from the place where the funeral service was conducted to the
cemetery. May also apply to a church funeral where the mourners follow the
casket as it is brought into and taken out of the church.
- PURGE - A discharge from the deceased
through the mouth, nose and ears of matter from the stomach and intestine
caused by improper or ineffectual embalming, due to putrefaction.
- PUTREFACTION - The decomposition of the body upon
death which causes discoloration and the formation of a foul smelling
product.
- REGISTER - A book made available by the funeral
director for recording the names of people visiting the funeral home to
pay their respects to the deceased. Also has space for entering other data
such as name, dates of birth and death of the deceased, name of the
officiating clergyman, place of interment, time and date of service, list
of floral tributes, etc.
- REMAINS - The deceased.
- REPOSING ROOM - A room of the funeral home where a
body lies in state from the time it is casketed until the time of the
funeral service.
- RESTORATIVE ART - Derma surgery - The process of
restoring mutilated and distorted features by employing wax, creams,
plaster, etc.
- RIGOR MORTIS - Rigidity of the muscles which occurs
at death.
- SERVICE CAR - Usually a utility vehicle to which
tasteful ornamentation may be added in the form of a metal firm name
plate, post lamps, etc. It is utilized to transport chairs, church trucks,
flower stands, shipping cases, etc.
- SLUMBER ROOM - A room equipped with, besides the
usual furniture, a bed upon which the deceased is placed prior to
casketing on the day of the funeral. The body, appropriately dressed, lies
in state on the bed.
- SPIRITUAL BANQUET - A Roman Catholic practice involving
specific prayers, such as Masses and Rosaries offered by an individual or
a group for a definite purpose.
- SURVIVOR - The persons outliving the deceased,
particularly the immediate family.
- TRADE EMBALMER - A licensed embalmer who is not
employed by one specific funeral home, but does the embalming for several
firms either on a salary or per case basis.
- TRADITIONAL SERVICE - A religious service with the body
present usually preceded by visitation.
- TRANSIT PERMIT - A legal paper issued by the local government
authorizing removal of a body to a cemetery for interment. Some cities
also require an additional permit if the deceased is to be cremated.
- URN - A container into which cremated
remains are placed, or in which they are kept; may be made of various
materials, including wood, marble or metal.
- VAULT - A burial chamber underground or
partly so. Also includes in meaning the outside metal or concrete casket
container.
- VIGIL - A Roman Catholic religious service
held on the eve of the funeral service.
- VISITATION - A scheduled time, during which a
body is present in an open or closed casket, when family and friends pay
their respects, usually in private in a special room within the funeral
home. Also referred to as a "viewing", "calling hours",
"family hour" or "wake."
- WAKE - A watch kept over the deceased,
sometimes lasting the entire night preceding the funeral.
Wednesday, 9 April 2014
WORDS USED DURING DEATH AND FUNERAL
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