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Funeral Directing Cremation Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions Reduction of a dead human body to inorganic bone fragments by intense heat in a specifially designed retort or chamber. - Answer️️ -Cremation 1. People are dying older. 2. More transient population 3. increase in migrati...

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Funeral Directing Cremation Exam Study
Guide with Complete Solutions

Reduction of a dead human body to inorganic bone fragments by intense
heat in a specifially designed retort or chamber. - Answer✔️✔️-Cremation

1. People are dying older.

2. More transient population

3. increase in migration to retirement locations

4. Regional differences are diminishing

5. Eduational level is rising

6. Enivornmental considerations

7. Origins of immigrants are changing

8. Less ties to tradition

9. Cremation becoming more acceptable (normal form of disposition) -
Answer✔️✔️-Trends Affecting Cremation

80.7 - Answer✔️✔️-White female life expectancy?

77.9 - Answer✔️✔️-Average life expectancy?

77 - Answer✔️✔️-Black female and male life expectancy?

80 - Answer✔️✔️-White male life expectancy?



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1. Perceived as less expensive (saves money- 30%)

2. Uses less land/enviromental consideration (saves land- 13%)

3. Perceived as being simpler than burial (Simpler- 8%)

4. More options for memorialization (body not in earth- 6%)

5. Perceived as modern (preference 6%) - Answer✔️✔️-Primary Reasons for
selecting cremation

The chemical reastion between fuel and oxygen, releasing heat and light. -
Answer✔️✔️-Combustion Definition

Human Remains - 85 % water - Answer✔️✔️-Principles of Combustion

1. Fuel

2. Water

3. Heat - Answer✔️✔️-3 elements needed for combustion

1.In the case of cremation - the human remains and its container would be
considered the fuel

2.Body fat burns easily and quickly. Human remains having lower body fat
levels have lower fuels values.

3.Each human body and its container will be different with every casein the
cremation chamber. - Answer✔️✔️-Fuel

1.Second element needed for combustion




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2.Comes from the atmosphere with air jets, burners, or in adjustable air
openings

3.In general, cremation can be controlled with the amount of oxygen
allowed in the chamber. - Answer✔️✔️-Oxygen

1.Once combustion has started, it will often generate enough heat to
continue the process without additional heat from an external source.

2.Heat energry is absorbed into refractory and reduce the amount of heat
required from main burner to sustain combustion. - Answer✔️✔️-Heat

Only at a certain temperature - Answer✔️✔️-When will combustion take
place?

1400 degrees to 1800 degrees Fahrenheit - Answer✔️✔️-Temperatures of
combustion

1. Volatile matter

2. Fixed carbon - Answer✔️✔️-Two types of organic materials that dead
human remains contain?

portion that is vaporized - Answer✔️✔️-Volatile matter

is nonvolatile portion- combustion reastion is solid phase reaction hot
hearth effect of most retorts will expose the fixed carbon to high
temperatures to breakdown the components - Answer✔️✔️-Fixed carbon

1. Human remains



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