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Alternative
Container
An unfinished wood box or other nonmetal
receptacle without ornamentation, often made of fiberboard, pressed
wood or composition materials, and generally lower in cost than
caskets.
Casket/Coffin
A box or chest for burying remains.
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Cemetery
Property
A grave, crypt or niche.
Cemetery
Services
Opening and closing graves, crypts
or niches; setting grave liners and vaults; setting markers;
and long-term maintenance of cemetery grounds and facilities.
Columbarium
A structure with niches (small spaces)
for placing cremated remains in urns or other approved containers.
It may be outdoors or part of a mausoleum.
Crypt
A space in a mausoleum or other
building to hold cremated or whole remains.
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Cremation
Exposing remains and the container encasing
them to extreme heat and flame and processing the resulting bone
fragments to a uniform size and consistency.
Death
Certificate
A legal document signed by a physician stating
the cause of death and relevant information on the deceased.
Disposition
The placement of cremated or whole remains
in their final resting place.
Embalming
Filling the arteries, veins and body cavities
of the deceased with antiseptic and preservative to delay the natural
decay process.
Entombment
Burial in a mausoleum.
Eulogy
A speech or written tribute to the deceased.
Executor
Person or people named in a will who the deceased
wishes to administer his or her estate.
Final
Expense Insurance
Whole life insurance that pays a fixed small
death benefit, not tied to advanced planning funeral contract.
Funeral
Ceremony
A service commemorating the deceased,
with the body present.
Funeral
Trust
A trust fund where money is held for the use
of a funeral until needed. Trusts are generally administered under
state laws and/or supervision.
Grave
A space in the ground in a cemetery for
the burial of remains.
Grave
Liner or Outer Container
A concrete cover that fits over a casket
in a grave. Some liners cover tops and sides of the casket. Others,
referred to as vaults, completely enclose the casket. Grave liners
minimize ground settling.
Graveside
Service
A service to commemorate the deceased
held at the cemetery before burial.
Interment
Burial in the ground, inurnment or entombment.
Inurnment
The placing of cremated remains in an urn.
Mausoleum
A building in which remains are buried
or entombed.
Memorial
Service
A ceremony commemorating the deceased,
without the body present.
Memorial
Society
An organization that provides information
about funerals and disposition, but is not part of the state-regulated
funeral industry.
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Niche
A space in a columbarium, mausoleum
or niche wall to hold an urn.
Preneed
Funeral Insurance
Insurance for the purpose of funding
one's funeral service.
Urn
A container to hold cremated remains.
It can be placed in a columbarium or mausoleum, or buried
in the ground.
Vault
A grave liner that completely encloses
a casket.
Visitation
An opportunity for family and friends
to view the deceased in private before the funeral service.
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