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Why Study Funeral Service History? |
-How did we get here as a profession, belief systen - According to Jewish tradition, the ultimate act of grace is burial of the dead. - According to Catholic Tradition- corporal act of mercy |
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Funeral Service has pagan roots in? |
Egyptian, Roman, and Greek |
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Evisceration Age |
Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome (3200BC - 650 AD) |
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Evisceration |
Taking out viscera and surface embalming wrapping body |
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Period of Anatomists |
Expeirmation -Middle Ages, Renaissances (650 AD-1861AD) Pre Civil War |
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Modern Era |
The modern era pre/post Civil War through Present (1861 - Now) |
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Ancient Egypt |
-Flourished culture among Nile Delta -Polytheistic religion base -Set chaste system based on economics(ranking) |
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Polytheistic |
Believing in many God's |
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Ra |
Egyptian Sun God |
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Pharaoh |
Egyptian earthly representation of the Sun God |
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Egyptians Believed |
The sun was the center of the Universe to which all things were born and returned |
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Egyptian Myth |
Ra disappeared each evening in the west fought his way through the underworld. in the morning he was reborn as a scarab beetle |
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Scarab Beetles |
Represented rebirth and a symbol of eternal life |
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Osiris |
Egyptian God of the Underwood - Judge of the Dead |
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Horus |
God of the Sky Egyptian |
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Anubis |
God of the Death/ Embalming |
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Ament |
Beast; Devours Hearts |
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Complex Elements Reassembled |
the soul has to be immortitized by being brought back to body |
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Ba |
Egyptian Soul |
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Yakhu |
Egyptian Shining one |
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Ka |
Egyptian Spirit |
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Circle of Necessity |
Keeping elements of the body in tact, if the body was in tact the soul was in tact. |
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Herodotus |
Greek Philosopher gave the best know account for egyptian embalming practice - based on economic statues |
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High End |
Wealthy Citizens, Royalty - removal of the brain, evisceration, use of canopic jars, natron, spices, wrapping, restorative art |
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Mid Range |
Skilled, Artisan - covering with Natron, injection of cedar oil - removal of Natron |
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Low End |
Peasants - soda solution, dry burial in pitch |
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What organs were kept in the canopic jars |
Stomach, liver, lungs, intestines |
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Kherheb |
Priest in Egyptian |
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Cortege |
Funeral Procession Oxen or Men |
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Zeus |
Greek supreme God
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Hera |
Greek; Zeus's jealous Wife |
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Hades |
Greek; the god of the dead, and the underwood |
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Rhadamanthus |
Greek; judge of the dead |
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Hermes |
Greek; Messengers Paid him with coins, honey cake to not deliver to hades |
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Cult of Dionysuis |
Mystcial Union with god, partying, drinking, orgy. |
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Who prepared int funeral in Greece? |
Female Family members and children |
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Sumptuary Laws |
Keep funerals simple no need for extravagant clothing. simple |
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Stelae |
Greek Tomb - shafts, below, or at ground level |
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Kiones |
Greek Tombs -Columns |
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Trapezae |
Greek Tombs -Square cut tombs |
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Naidia |
Greek Tomb - temple like building |
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Age of Rome |
-753-476 AD - First secular society - cruel |
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Who adopted Christianity in Rome? |
Constantine |
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Roman Embalming Practice |
- Little Embalming, cremains began, body was washed with warm water, white toga, door badge of door, burial outside of city walls |
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Libitina |
Roman; the goddness of corpses and funerals |
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Libitnarius |
Roman; equivalent of the head undertaker |
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Pollinctores |
Roman Embalmers |
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Designator |
Roman; master of ceremonies and directors of funeral Procession; told people about funeral |
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Praeco |
Roman Death Crier |
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Funeralis |
Torchlight procession |
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Dirges |
Sad Music |
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Conclamatio mortis |
Calling out for the dead
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Jessica Mitford |
Writes "the American Way of Death" in 1963 criticizing American Death Practice |
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Assassination of JFL |
35th President of United States, Procession from Dallas aboard on Air Force One Personal for most people |
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Cremation in 1963 |
the catholic church lifts ban on cremation,
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What private college became regionally accredited> |
In 1986 CCMS |
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Who founded CCMS in 1882? |
Henry Clark |
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Associations in the Funeral Business |
-Provide information and assistance -code of ethics - communication within the trade - professional standards |
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Who Created NFDA |
Allen Durfree |
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Beir |
handstretcher in which bearers carried the casket |
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Bearers |
Carried the casket |
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Hearses and Horses |
Crane & Breed, Cincinnati Ohio First gas powered hearse |
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Corpse Cooling Boards
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Created by Fredrick and Trump - Could be reused - kept face and hands preserved for viewing |
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Father Of American Embalming Civil War Embalmer |
Dr. Thomas Holmes |
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Who discovered formaldehyde |
Buterlov and Hoftman in 1859 |
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Who invented the gravity injector |
J. Anthony Gaussardia |
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Who created the trocar? |
Samual Rogers patent in 1878 allowing for cavity embalming |
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When was the Civil War? |
1861-65 |
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What was the main even during the civil war that changed embalming/ funeral business/ |
The families wanted their war veterans sent home for proper burial President assassination he was embalmed. |
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War Department Order #75 |
To ensure all casualites during wartime were provided a decent burial |
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War Order #33 |
Number of casualites increased and needed space for veterans to be buried |
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General Order #39 |
Concerning Embalmers Stpop battlefield abuse, set regulations for cost, training and qualifications of Embalmers, ID tags |
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Death of Lincoln |
1865 |
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How many stops did Lincoln funeral procession take> |
445 Stops |
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Who embalmed Lincoln's body? |
Dr. Charles Brown and Dr. Harry Cattell through the femoral artery |
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Where in Lincolns final resting place> |
After 44 days, Final resting place was Oak Ridge Cemetery, Illinois |
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Joel Crandall |
(1878-1942)
Founded the modern art of demisurgery / restorative art |
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Clarence Strub |
Principle of Restorative Art |
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G. Joseph Prager |
Cincinnati facility wrote Manual of Restorative Art with Charles Dhonau |
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Dr. Richard Harlan |
translated Gannal |
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Dr. Auguste Renouard |
Published first American Embalming Textbook Undertakers Manuals 1878 |
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Joseph H. Clarke |
CCMS - Spring 1882 |
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A. Johnson Dodge |
Boston Dodge Chemical Company |
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What was body wrapped in during the 17th and 18th century? |
Cerecloth |
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Who had the first Metallic coffin> |
James Gray of Virginia |
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Ogee |
Square metal container with sealing capabilites "air tight"
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Style E Casket |
- President Grant was buried in 1885 - Viewable - Heavy and expensive - full glass plate |
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Samual Stein |
first patent on a cloth covered casket |
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Early Funeral Directing |
-to provide a set of tasks for the care and disposal of the dead - takesthe form of service as a business enterprise |
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Free Enterprise |
The opportunity, based upon the profit motive to create new careers |
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Sexton |
Keeping records and cemetery |
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Liveryman |
Transportation keeper of the hacks and carriages |
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Personal Service Providers |
Laying out the dead, roles of the nurses and midwives |
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Cabinet maker |
Coffin and merchandise |
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Warburton Act |
Anatomy act of 1829 - Provided legal means to obtaining cadavers for dissection, checklist and processes |
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Dr. Robert Knox |
Doctor who traded in Cadavers |
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Burke & Hare |
Murder for hire, grave robbers 18th & 19th century |
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Execution of Burke |
Newgate prison 1829 killed and disected |
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Chadwick's Report |
Lead to more cremation Report to cemetery reform Tried hiding suspicious deaths |
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Edwin Chadwick |
Researched auspices for Poor Law Commissioners |
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Village of Essex |
1789 Cemetery Conditions grave recycling Cholera Outbreak Old coffins bodies everywhere |
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Reformation led the Church to Criticize |
-Funeral Customs -Expense of Funerals -Behavior of Undertakers -High Rituals |
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Emergence of the Funeral Undertaker |
- Advertised 2 points 1. wide range of Goods 2. Protection of the corpse |
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Barber- Surgeons Charter |
Henry III and Barber Surgeons applied for a new charter october 20 1604 |
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Bloodletting |
Small amounts of blood out for healing purposes |
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Richard Harlan |
Translated Gannal's work in 1840 in Philadelphia and made embalming instructions in English in the USA |
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Jean Gannal |
French man, Made embalming available to public in 1834 History of Embalming textbook |
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Jan Swammerdam |
Embalmed with glass cannula |
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Fredrick Ruysch |
Practiced Embalming by injecting followed by evisceration Known as father of Embalming (HUMANS) |
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Dr. William Hunter |
Scottish Professor first person to adopt arterial injection |
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Who discovered circulation of the blood? |
William Henry in 1618 |
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What was created in 1450? |
Gutenberg created printing press |
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Father of Anatomy |
Andreas Vesalius |
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Reformation of the Church |
Martin Luther 1517 Protestant, Lutheran Doctrine - Decrease in Burial Clubs - No incense, mass, candles, and holy water - rejection of doctrine of purgatory |
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Sin Eater |
Eating a load of bread and drinking a bowl of beer the ghost would no longer wander |
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Mourning Colors; |
- White; purity hope of resurrection - purple; designating death and mourning for royalty/ christian groups |
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Mortuary Fee |
Soul Shot; paid from estate to ensure soul would go to heaven |
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Catafalque |
Canopy where body would lay -Usage of candles and tapers |
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Hebrew Culture |
Human composed of 2 parts - body and soul - soul kept a strong connection with the body when the corpse was hurt the soul suffered |
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Herbrew Burial Customs |
No embalming, Eyes & mouth closed, anointed with spices and dressed - the body was shrouded wrapped in lineans - same day funeral and burial - Burial without a coffin - laid in shallow graves to return to the ground |
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Hebrew mourning Customs |
- Renter the garments, rip clothing, naked. - Cut off hair, hired mourners - bare feet - cutting the flesh - fasting, no partying |
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K'riah |
Rending the garmets |
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Shiv'ah |
7 days of Forma Mourning Candles represented the spirit |
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Sh'lostim |
First full month of mourning |
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Yahrtzeit |
1 year of Anniversary of Death |
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Jewish Funeral prohibited on which |
Sabbath Saturday |