Mort 203- History of Funeral Directing Exam
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Common beliefs & rights of Modern American Society - Answer✔️✔️-
life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness
the dead merit which personal funeral services from a lay
occupation - Answer✔️✔️-embalming, dressing, casketing,
viewing, service, disposition
American mortuary beliefs descends from - Answer✔️✔️-
humanitarianism
The following 3 are super imposed over a dominant Judeo-Christian
tradition born out of Hebrew religious & ethical concepts -
Answer✔️✔️-greek aesthetics, roman law, ancient teutonic vigor
Theology of sunworship - Answer✔️✔️-believed the sun was the
center of the universe
Cult of Osiris - Answer✔️✔️-God of Underworld & judge of the dead;
interest in afterlife & immortality
Circle of Necessity - Answer✔️✔️-3,000 year journey to the sun and
back to reassemble "elements" in the body of the dead
"elements" of the dead - Answer✔️✔️-ba, yakhu, name, shadow,
heart, ka
The Ka - Answer✔️✔️-eternal life force of the body, spirit guide that
demanded attention from the living
Anubis - Answer✔️✔️-Guardian of the dead who took souls to
underworld, son of Osiris, black jackal head, grim reaper, god of
embalming
Why did Egyptians embalm? - Answer✔️✔️-to get body ready for
reassembly after journey to the sun, soul had to be returned to
body for resurrection
How did plagues affect burial motives? - Answer✔️✔️-putrefaction
would seep into soil if not buried, sealed tombs kept things
sanitary, Nile river would overflow seasonably and wash up bodies
not buried deep enough
How deep would bodies need to be buried along Nile river -
Answer✔️✔️-6-8' underground, on a bed of charcoal above flood plain
Embalming High Rank individuals - Answer✔️✔️-evisceration, resins
and spices, viscera removed, canopic jars body bandaged, street
procession, placed in tomb
The "Balance" - Answer✔️✔️-the heart of the dead man is weiged
against a feather by Anubis, god of death. If balance unfavorable,
heart is eaten by monster Ament
embalming Middle Class - Answer✔️✔️-no evisceration, body is
injected with cedar oil & soaked in natron
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