Methods of Disposition Exam 3 || 100% correct answers.
Reverence for dead,
Believed cremation began in Greece in 1000 BC,
Believed in shadowy afterlife and Elysian Fields correct answers The ancient Greeks...
Separation of the soul from the body, and they believed the remnants of cremation held
personal and spiritual significance and should be entombed properly correct answers Greeks
believed cremation provided...
Large pyres were built and remains were returned home for ceremony correct answers When
Greek soldiers died in battle
Lay undertaker, the role was no longer a religious vocation correct answers Significant
element of funeral service that came from the romans was the...
miasma correct answers Theory that diseases were spread by this dangerous gaseous emission
from decaying organic matter
Dr. F. Julius LeMoyne correct answers Erected America's first crematory in 1876 at
Washington, Pennsylvania
Baron Depalm correct answers First cremation in modern America; scientific progress and
rural simplicity; opponents denounced it as satans errand
John L Dye correct answers Built LeMoyne's crematory, also built 2nd crematory in US at
Rosedale Cemetery (first on west coast) in LA
Dr. Hugo Erichsen correct answers Founded the Cremation Association of America (later
changed to CANA) in 1913:
Promote cremation as the safe and hygienic way of disposition, became a concern over
proper treatment and respect of those who choose cremation correct answers CAA was
founded to...
Code of Cremation Practice to uphold high standards of ethics, education, and consumer
information correct answers Member of CANA sign a
Telophase Society correct answers Founded by Thomas Webber, San Diego, 1971, named
after final stage in cell division, pioneered direct cremation for profit, focused on selling
cremation instead of products and services
Neptune Society correct answers Founded by Dr. Charles Derring in San Fransisco, CA 1977,
offered services instead of direct cremation, scattering at sea, wore flashy clothes and happy
demeanor
Colonel Cinders correct answers What was Charles Denning known as?
tried to legislate them out of business, California FDA got legislation passed that classified
cremation clubs as funeral homes, subjecting them to regulations of the undertaker controlled
, state Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers correct answers How did funeral directors
react to cremation societies?
OB Frothingham correct answers reverend who supported cremation, delivered sermon called
"The Disposal of our dead", thought cremation was more sanitary and spiritual than burial
find what made corpses harmless, claimed burial failed to protect from toxins and polluted
both air and water, also said god was capable of raising a cremated body correct answers
Persifor Frazer aimed to...
first pro cremation sermon, it symbolized a link between cremation and unorthodox religion,
said cremation's swiftness was more of a relief to the mind than burial correct answers
Frothingham's sermon...
white, well-educated, middle-class men and women from Northeast and Midwest correct
answers cremation movement was most popular with...
plunging country into chaos, needed to educate them correct answers Genteel reformers
thought immigrants were...
scapegoats for urban perils correct answers the dead joined immigrants as...
microorganisms, or germs correct answers By 1870s, miasma theory was challenged by idea
antitoxin to diphtheria correct answers first major application to germ theory
wash hands, cover mouth when coughing, don't spit; they were convinced diseases were
spread by bad habits that could be stopped through proper education, cleanliness next to
godliness correct answers "New Sanitarians" shifted attention from public health to private by
saying you should
tradition of fire burial in Germany, German Americans heavily involved in cremation
societies correct answers German ethnic groups
mixed support from American Medical Association, said cremationists overestimated danger
of burial of bodies, bury remains 4-6 feet underground correct answers medical professionals
free thinkers, genteel practice correct answers New England Protestant Clergy
Roman Catholics (prior to 1970), some Protestant clergy, some funeral directors correct
answers Opponents of cremation
said cremation was anti-christian, done by heathens and pagans, in 1886 the vatican
denounced practice of cremation correct answers Roman Catholics prior to 1970
wanted burial in sacred ground/cemeteries, said cremation was violent and vulgar practice
correct answers Some protestant clergy
Reverence for dead,
Believed cremation began in Greece in 1000 BC,
Believed in shadowy afterlife and Elysian Fields correct answers The ancient Greeks...
Separation of the soul from the body, and they believed the remnants of cremation held
personal and spiritual significance and should be entombed properly correct answers Greeks
believed cremation provided...
Large pyres were built and remains were returned home for ceremony correct answers When
Greek soldiers died in battle
Lay undertaker, the role was no longer a religious vocation correct answers Significant
element of funeral service that came from the romans was the...
miasma correct answers Theory that diseases were spread by this dangerous gaseous emission
from decaying organic matter
Dr. F. Julius LeMoyne correct answers Erected America's first crematory in 1876 at
Washington, Pennsylvania
Baron Depalm correct answers First cremation in modern America; scientific progress and
rural simplicity; opponents denounced it as satans errand
John L Dye correct answers Built LeMoyne's crematory, also built 2nd crematory in US at
Rosedale Cemetery (first on west coast) in LA
Dr. Hugo Erichsen correct answers Founded the Cremation Association of America (later
changed to CANA) in 1913:
Promote cremation as the safe and hygienic way of disposition, became a concern over
proper treatment and respect of those who choose cremation correct answers CAA was
founded to...
Code of Cremation Practice to uphold high standards of ethics, education, and consumer
information correct answers Member of CANA sign a
Telophase Society correct answers Founded by Thomas Webber, San Diego, 1971, named
after final stage in cell division, pioneered direct cremation for profit, focused on selling
cremation instead of products and services
Neptune Society correct answers Founded by Dr. Charles Derring in San Fransisco, CA 1977,
offered services instead of direct cremation, scattering at sea, wore flashy clothes and happy
demeanor
Colonel Cinders correct answers What was Charles Denning known as?
tried to legislate them out of business, California FDA got legislation passed that classified
cremation clubs as funeral homes, subjecting them to regulations of the undertaker controlled
, state Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers correct answers How did funeral directors
react to cremation societies?
OB Frothingham correct answers reverend who supported cremation, delivered sermon called
"The Disposal of our dead", thought cremation was more sanitary and spiritual than burial
find what made corpses harmless, claimed burial failed to protect from toxins and polluted
both air and water, also said god was capable of raising a cremated body correct answers
Persifor Frazer aimed to...
first pro cremation sermon, it symbolized a link between cremation and unorthodox religion,
said cremation's swiftness was more of a relief to the mind than burial correct answers
Frothingham's sermon...
white, well-educated, middle-class men and women from Northeast and Midwest correct
answers cremation movement was most popular with...
plunging country into chaos, needed to educate them correct answers Genteel reformers
thought immigrants were...
scapegoats for urban perils correct answers the dead joined immigrants as...
microorganisms, or germs correct answers By 1870s, miasma theory was challenged by idea
antitoxin to diphtheria correct answers first major application to germ theory
wash hands, cover mouth when coughing, don't spit; they were convinced diseases were
spread by bad habits that could be stopped through proper education, cleanliness next to
godliness correct answers "New Sanitarians" shifted attention from public health to private by
saying you should
tradition of fire burial in Germany, German Americans heavily involved in cremation
societies correct answers German ethnic groups
mixed support from American Medical Association, said cremationists overestimated danger
of burial of bodies, bury remains 4-6 feet underground correct answers medical professionals
free thinkers, genteel practice correct answers New England Protestant Clergy
Roman Catholics (prior to 1970), some Protestant clergy, some funeral directors correct
answers Opponents of cremation
said cremation was anti-christian, done by heathens and pagans, in 1886 the vatican
denounced practice of cremation correct answers Roman Catholics prior to 1970
wanted burial in sacred ground/cemeteries, said cremation was violent and vulgar practice
correct answers Some protestant clergy
