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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

Funeral Service has pagan roots in?

Egyptian, Roman, and Greek



Evisceration Age

Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome


(3200BC - 650 AD)

Evisceration

Taking out viscera and surface embalming wrapping body

Period of Anatomists

Expeirmation


-Middle Ages, Renaissances


(650 AD-1861AD) Pre Civil War

Modern Era

The modern era pre/post Civil War through Present


(1861 - Now)

Ancient Egypt

-Flourished culture among Nile Delta


-Polytheistic religion base


-Set chaste system based on economics(ranking)



Polytheistic

Believing in many God's



Ra

Egyptian Sun God



Pharaoh

Egyptian earthly representation of the Sun God

Egyptians Believed

The sun was the center of the Universe to which all things were born and returned



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



Scarab Beetles

Represented rebirth and a symbol of eternal life

Osiris

Egyptian God of the Underwood - Judge of the Dead



Horus

God of the Sky Egyptian

Anubis

God of the Death/ Embalming



Ament

Beast; Devours Hearts



Complex Elements Reassembled

the soul has to be immortitized by being brought back to body

Ba

Egyptian Soul

Yakhu

Egyptian Shining one

Ka

Egyptian Spirit

Circle of Necessity

Keeping elements of the body in tact, if the body was in tact the soul was in tact.



Herodotus

Greek Philosopher gave the best know account for egyptian embalming practice


- based on economic statues



High End

Wealthy Citizens, Royalty


- removal of the brain, evisceration, use of canopic jars, natron, spices, wrapping, restorative art



Mid Range

Skilled, Artisan


- covering with Natron, injection of cedar oil


- removal of Natron



Low End

Peasants


- soda solution, dry burial in pitch



What organs were kept in the canopic jars

Stomach, liver, lungs, intestines



Kherheb

Priest in Egyptian

Cortege

Funeral Procession Oxen or Men

Zeus

Greek supreme God


Hera

Greek; Zeus's jealous Wife

Hades

Greek; the god of the dead, and the underwood

Rhadamanthus

Greek; judge of the dead

Hermes

Greek; Messengers


Paid him with coins, honey cake to not deliver to hades

Cult of Dionysuis

Mystcial Union with god, partying, drinking, orgy.

Who prepared int funeral in Greece?

Female Family members and children

Sumptuary Laws

Keep funerals simple no need for extravagant clothing. simple



Stelae

Greek Tomb


- shafts, below, or at ground level



Kiones

Greek Tombs


-Columns



Trapezae

Greek Tombs


-Square cut tombs



Naidia

Greek Tomb


- temple like building



Age of Rome

-753-476 AD


- First secular society


- cruel



Who adopted Christianity in Rome?

Constantine

Roman Embalming Practice

- Little Embalming, cremains began, body was washed with warm water, white toga, door badge of door, burial outside of city walls

Libitina

Roman; the goddness of corpses and funerals

Libitnarius

Roman; equivalent of the head undertaker

Pollinctores

Roman Embalmers

Designator

Roman; master of ceremonies and directors of funeral Procession; told people about funeral



Praeco

Roman Death Crier

Funeralis

Torchlight procession

Dirges

Sad Music

Conclamatio mortis

Calling out for the dead


Jessica Mitford

Writes "the American Way of Death" in 1963 criticizing American Death Practice

Assassination of JFL

35th President of United States, Procession from Dallas aboard on Air Force One


Personal for most people



Cremation in 1963

the catholic church lifts ban on cremation,


What private college became regionally accredited>

In 1986 CCMS

Who founded CCMS in 1882?

Henry Clark

Associations in the Funeral Business

-Provide information and assistance


-code of ethics


- communication within the trade


- professional standards



Who Created NFDA

Allen Durfree



Beir

handstretcher in which bearers carried the casket

Bearers

Carried the casket

Hearses and Horses

Crane & Breed, Cincinnati Ohio


First gas powered hearse



Corpse Cooling Boards

Created by Fredrick and Trump


- Could be reused


- kept face and hands preserved for viewing



Father Of American Embalming


Civil War Embalmer

Dr. Thomas Holmes

Who discovered formaldehyde

Buterlov and Hoftman in 1859



Who invented the gravity injector

J. Anthony Gaussardia

Who created the trocar?

Samual Rogers patent in 1878 allowing for cavity embalming

When was the Civil War?

1861-65

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.

War Department Order #75

To ensure all casualites during wartime were provided a decent burial

War Order #33

Number of casualites increased and needed space for veterans to be buried

General Order #39

Concerning Embalmers


Stpop battlefield abuse, set regulations for cost, training and qualifications of Embalmers, ID tags

Death of Lincoln

1865

How many stops did Lincoln funeral procession take>

445 Stops

Who embalmed Lincoln's body?

Dr. Charles Brown and Dr. Harry Cattell through the femoral artery

Where in Lincolns final resting place>

After 44 days, Final resting place was Oak Ridge Cemetery, Illinois

Joel Crandall

(1878-1942)
Founded the modern art of demisurgery / restorative art

Clarence Strub

Principle of Restorative Art

G. Joseph Prager

Cincinnati facility wrote Manual of Restorative Art with Charles Dhonau

Dr. Richard Harlan

translated Gannal

Dr. Auguste Renouard

Published first American Embalming Textbook


Undertakers Manuals 1878

Joseph H. Clarke

CCMS - Spring 1882

A. Johnson Dodge

Boston Dodge Chemical Company

What was body wrapped in during the 17th and 18th century?

Cerecloth



Who had the first Metallic coffin>

James Gray of Virginia

Ogee

Square metal container with sealing capabilites "air tight"

Style E Casket

- President Grant was buried in 1885


- Viewable


- Heavy and expensive


- full glass plate



Samual Stein

first patent on a cloth covered casket

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

Free Enterprise

The opportunity, based upon the profit motive to create new careers

Sexton

Keeping records and cemetery

Liveryman

Transportation keeper of the hacks and carriages

Personal Service Providers

Laying out the dead, roles of the nurses and midwives

Cabinet maker

Coffin and merchandise

Warburton Act

Anatomy act of 1829


- Provided legal means to obtaining cadavers for dissection, checklist and processes

Dr. Robert Knox

Doctor who traded in Cadavers

Burke & Hare

Murder for hire,


grave robbers 18th & 19th century



Execution of Burke



Newgate prison 1829 killed and disected

Chadwick's Report

Lead to more cremation


Report to cemetery reform


Tried hiding suspicious deaths

Edwin Chadwick

Researched auspices for Poor Law Commissioners

Village of Essex

1789 Cemetery Conditions grave recycling


Cholera Outbreak


Old coffins bodies everywhere

Reformation led the Church to Criticize

-Funeral Customs


-Expense of Funerals


-Behavior of Undertakers


-High Rituals

Emergence of the Funeral Undertaker

- Advertised 2 points


1. wide range of Goods


2. Protection of the corpse

Barber- Surgeons Charter



Henry III and Barber Surgeons applied for a new charter october 20 1604

Bloodletting

Small amounts of blood out for healing purposes

Richard Harlan

Translated Gannal's work in 1840 in Philadelphia and made embalming instructions in English in the USA

Jean Gannal

French man, Made embalming available to public in 1834 History of Embalming textbook

Jan Swammerdam

Embalmed with glass cannula

Fredrick Ruysch

Practiced Embalming by injecting followed by evisceration


Known as father of Embalming (HUMANS)

Dr. William Hunter

Scottish Professor first person to adopt arterial injection

Who discovered circulation of the blood?

William Henry in 1618

What was created in 1450?

Gutenberg created printing press

Father of Anatomy

Andreas Vesalius

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

Sin Eater

Eating a load of bread and drinking a bowl of beer the ghost would no longer wander

Mourning Colors;

- White; purity hope of resurrection


- purple; designating death and mourning for royalty/ christian groups

Mortuary Fee

Soul Shot; paid from estate to ensure soul would go to heaven

Catafalque

Canopy where body would lay


-Usage of candles and tapers

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

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

Hebrew mourning Customs

- Renter the garments, rip clothing, naked.


- Cut off hair, hired mourners


- bare feet


- cutting the flesh


- fasting, no partying



K'riah

Rending the garmets

Shiv'ah

7 days of Forma Mourning


Candles represented the spirit



Sh'lostim

First full month of mourning



Yahrtzeit

1 year of Anniversary of Death

Jewish Funeral prohibited on which

Sabbath Saturday