DEATH: cemetery/crematory

In those states that require them, the metal ID disc must follow the remains through the process (from receiving to shipping) and must be:

placed in the retort on the right hand side near the changing door

The person or persons to whom the Cemetery Authority has conveyed a right of interment in a number of adjacent cemetery lots:

plot holder

In areas with strict pollution control regulations, cremation is not allowed at night because:

smoke cannot be detected against a night sky

In most states with cremation laws, the _________ is responsible for the crematory complying with the laws, rules and regulations of that state.

Responsible cremationist

The optimum temperature for human crematory operations is:

between 1400 and 1800 degrees Fahrenheit & 1600 degrees Fahrenheit

All property for earth burials:

cemetery

The artificial grass, chairs, tent and casket lowering devise are generally referred to as:

cemetery set-up

A container used to hold the deceased which is constructed out of a type of cardboard, which is made with a series of alternate folds and ridges?

corrugated container

Carbon monoxide is the result of:

incomplete combustion

How large would a grave need to be to accommodate a standard burial vault?

3' x 8' or 36" x 96"

If the authorizing agent agrees to take possessions of the cremated remains and does not take possession within __________ days after cremation or on an agreed date, the crematory shall send written notice to the last known address and the authorizing agent to take possession of he remains.

30

The crematory operator should cremate the containers with the most combustible furnishes:

First

The area in the design of the retort connecting the main incinerating chamber to the stack or chimney?

Flue or breach

During the performance of any maintenance on the retort, OSHA _______ procedure should be strictly followed to the letter or the rule.

LOTO (lock-out, tag-out)

A crematory shall not accept a casket or cremation container from which there is evidence of:

Leakage

A "big rock". The most famous of these are not sepulchral but things or places like Stonehenge.

Megalith

The device used to identify the place of interment and whose purpose is to commemorate a family or an individual and includes such terms as monument, marker, tombstone, tablet, shutter, headstone, footstone, or niche plate:

Memorial

The physical identification of a space where one, several or a multiple of people died in a common occurrence. The deceased may or may not be interred at that place.

Memorial cenotaph

Generally State or County owned land operated for the burial of the indigent or unclaimed:

Potters Field

A ceremonial construction made of wood and fire, designed to reduce a deceased human body to ashes:

Pyre

One who loves cemeteries and funerals.

Taphophile

____________ is the mixing of gases in the cremator's exhaust flow.

Turbulence

A grave, crypt or niche:

a lot

In a hillside cemetery, where the ground is on a steep slop where the grave is located, it may be necessary for the funeral director to ___________ in order to keep the lowering devise level over the grave.

erect a scaffolding

To cremate bodies larger than 300 lbs, the operator should:

use modified operating procedures

Meaning: Burial Alive:

vivisepulture

Visible emissions (opacity) is rated on a scale from:

0% to 100%

Most products of combustion (smoke and odor) given off during the cremation process will be destroyed if subjected to temperatures between _____________ and _________ for a period of 0.5 seconds to 1 second, if the stream is subjected to proper mixing (turbulence).

1,000*F - 1,200*F

In most States, regardless of the age of the equipment, there is a _________ second retention time requirement .

1/2

If the family has not claimed the cremated remains with in ________ days after final notice has been given, the funeral director may dispose of them in any legal manor.

120

The first recorded pre-planned cremation in the US took place in Charleston, South Carolina in:

1783

Cremation containers or caskets are made up of ______% combustible solids, _________% moisture, and __________% non-combustible solids and are classified as Type ______ waste.

85; 10; 5; 0

Human remains are made up of __________% moisture, _______% combustible solids, and ________% non-combustible solids and are classified as Type _________ waste.

85; 10; 5; 4

Of those persons listed below, which one should be responsible for the visual identity (ID viewing) of the deceased?

Authorizing agent

In the ideal cremation process, the only compounds exiting the stack are?

CO₂ & H₂O

The release of cremated human remains into the wind?

Casting or scattering

Rural, roadside cemeteries, many with homemade grave markers:

Country

A space of sufficient size in a building or land area used or intended to be used for the entombment of human remains:

Crypt

Turbulence in the exhaust flow are caused by the presences of physical obstacles such as:

Curtain walls & Drop arches

Any vertical refractory wall supported by arch construction which serves to defect gasses in a downward direction (sometimes referred to as a curtain wall)?

Drop arch

Private cemeteries located on private family owned homesteads:

Family

A space of land in a Cemetery used or intended to be used for the burial of human remains:

Grave

The three elements required for combustion to take place:

Heat, fuel, and oxygen

A designated area for the retention of human remains while awaiting the cremation processes:

Holding facility

Most modern crematory retorts operated in the U.S. are fired by:

Natural gas

Fear of tombstones:

Placophobia

A cemetery, Originally a cemetery for the victims of great battles:

Polyandrium

A cemetery for paupers

Potter's Field

In the language of Cremation, Retort capacity refers to:

Pounds per hour

Any refractory construction intended to change direction of flow or velocity of the products of combustion:

Baffle

The quantity of heat required to rise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit while water is in the liquid state:

British Thermal Unit (BTU)

In terms used by those that operate human crematory retorts, the number of pounds that the retort will cremate per hour is referred to as the:

Burn rate

A device for introduction of flame by the delivery or combining of a fuel and air mixture in the presence of heat? Sometimes referred to as primary, secondary or after!

Burner

Grate, hearth, or combination thereof where the body is consumed by flame?

Burning area

The amount of waste incinerated per unit of time, usually expressed in pounds per hour?

Burning rate

The State, in its exercise of Police Power, would create one of these to regulate the creation of cemeteries by providing for their establishment and discontinuance as well as to monitor their use:

Cemetery authority

A sequence of exothermic chemical reactions between a fuel and an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat and conversion of chemical species?

Combustion and burning

In cemetery language, "remains" and ___________ have the same meaning.

Deceased

Suspended ash particles, charred paper, dust, soot or other partially incinerated matter, carried in the products of combustion (often referred to as particulate matter, or particulates):

Fly ash

A stone marker, with or without an inscription used to mark the foot of the grave:

Footstone

A pre-placed enclosed chamber, which is usually constructed of reinforced concrete, poured in place or precast unit installed in quantity, either side by side or multiple depth, and covered by earth or sod:

Lawn crypt or garden cryp

The person or persons to whom the Cemetery Authority has conveyed a right of interment through original purchase, by transfer from original purchaser, or who hold such right by inheritance:

Lot holder

Any air, controlled with respect to quantity and location, forced or induced, supplied through or adjacent to the fuel bed in a crematory retort:

Primary air

The reduction of identifiable bone fragments after the completion of the cremation by manual or mechanical means and reducing to granulated particles or dust?

Processing and pulverization

From the Latin "sepulcrum" which meant only "a burial place":

Sepulcare

Opacity training which is generally required i those areas with very strict environmental regulations is referred to by those in the cremation business as:

Smoke school

These are relatively small cemeteries with rows of headstones and no resemblance to a park. Usually in larger cities up until the late 1950's:

Urban cemeteries

In the middle of the 17th century, Sir Thomas Browne wrote the earliest known essay in defense of _________." it stressed the advantages of this form of burial.

Urn burial

The ignition of the flame in the crematory retort is generally ignited by:

auto style spark plugs

Visual inspection of the equipment and stack should be inspected _____________ and _____________ when not in use.

prior to every use - no less than every 30 days

Many adherents to the Roman Catholic faith are not aware of the Vatican's acceptance of Cremation in:

1963

Which of the following might fall under the jurisdiction or use of a cemetery: 1 - land dedicated, reserved or used for interment 2 - trees, shrubs and other vegetation grown on the property 3 - graves, mausoleums, crypts, columbaria, niches, or other interment spaces 4 - memorial works of art 5 - roadways, walkways and ponds or lagoons (water features) 6 - equipment, vehicles and facilities incident to the operation thereof

All of these

A legal document which allows its creator a limited afterlife during which it may choose to placate, amuse, gratify, or anger the survivors. Generally used for the disposition of any earthly positions.

Will

Any refractory device construction in manor to change the direction of flow or velocity of products of combustion?

baffle