Cremation Exam #1 2025/2026 Exam
Questions and Correct Answers | New
Update
3000 BCE Stone Age - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cremation Begins
800 BCE - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Grecian culture adapts cremation for health
reasons
27 BCE- 395 CE - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Roman empire-Columbariums
1963 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Up until this point, Christianity would not permit
cremation; Paul VI lifted ban
Col. Henry Laurens - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1st recorded pre-planned cremation
1873 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Professor Brunetti presents model of cremator at
Vienna Exposition
, Le Moyne Crematory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1876; origin of modern cremation in
USA
1885 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔2nd Crematory in US; Lancaster, PA
1st public crematory
CANA - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cremation Association f North America
founded by Hugo Erichson; 1913
Neptune Society - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Direct Cremation
Cremation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The mechanical and/or thermal or other
dissolution process that reduces human remains to bone fragments.
Resomator - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Hydrolysis Cremation
Crematory or Crematorium - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The building that houses the
cremation chamber.
Incinerator - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Engineered apparatus capable of withstanding
heat and designed to efficiently reduce solid, semi-solid, liquid or gaseous
waste at specified rates and from which the residues contain little or no
combustion material.
Questions and Correct Answers | New
Update
3000 BCE Stone Age - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cremation Begins
800 BCE - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Grecian culture adapts cremation for health
reasons
27 BCE- 395 CE - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Roman empire-Columbariums
1963 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Up until this point, Christianity would not permit
cremation; Paul VI lifted ban
Col. Henry Laurens - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1st recorded pre-planned cremation
1873 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Professor Brunetti presents model of cremator at
Vienna Exposition
, Le Moyne Crematory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1876; origin of modern cremation in
USA
1885 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔2nd Crematory in US; Lancaster, PA
1st public crematory
CANA - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cremation Association f North America
founded by Hugo Erichson; 1913
Neptune Society - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Direct Cremation
Cremation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The mechanical and/or thermal or other
dissolution process that reduces human remains to bone fragments.
Resomator - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Hydrolysis Cremation
Crematory or Crematorium - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The building that houses the
cremation chamber.
Incinerator - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Engineered apparatus capable of withstanding
heat and designed to efficiently reduce solid, semi-solid, liquid or gaseous
waste at specified rates and from which the residues contain little or no
combustion material.
