Funeral Law and Ethics Quiz 1

The person who is the beneficiary of personal property by a will is the

Legatee

A term that is synonymous with ethical, and that refers to the customes, values, and standards of a group, age, or theory intended to be timeless is

Moral

Another term for autopsy is

Necropsy

All of the following would be considered part of a funeral director's individual/personal ethics EXCEPT

Their relationship to allied professions

A person appointed by the court to oversee the estate of an intestate is called

Administrator

A nuncupative will is

An oral (unwritten) will.

Of the following, under normal circumstances, the one(s) having the primary right to control final disposition of a deceased person is

Children of legal age

A declaration or public statement of professional standards of right and wrong conduct defines a

Code of ethics

The major source of mortuary law is

Common law

Maintaining discreet client relationships would fulfill what ethical practice?

Confidential responsibility

In regards to competitive relationships, which of the following is not a good ethical practice?

Defamation of competitor

The condition of an estate of a deceased person which is unable to pay the debts of the decedent and/or the estate is referred to as being

Insolvent Estate

Which of the following is an ethical obligation that a funeral director owes to his professional association?

Participate in continuing education

The method of dividing an intestate estate where a class or group of distributees take the share which their deceased should have been entitled to, and not as so many individuals is distribution

Per stirpes

According to Kohlberg, stage of moral development in which the individual considers universal moral principles which supersede the authority of the group is called

Post-conventional stage

A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of sacred beliefs, emotional feelings accompanying the beliefs, and overt conduct, presumably implementing the beliefs and feelings, is known as

Religion

All of the following statements are true of ethics EXCEPT

That ethics are imposed externally

The right to sue the federal government is derived from

The Federal Claims Act

Which of the following is a rule of ethical conduct that is found in most major religions?

The Golden Rule

With respect to the funeral industry, private and governmental agencies are examples of

Allied services

Which of the following is not considered ethical in regard to the deceased body?

Allowing a personal friend to watch the embalming procedure

A trade embalmer acts as

An independent contractor

The term synonymous to a dead body is

Corpse

In reference to ethics, advice given to someone else to help them with a problem is termed

Counseling

As a rule, the right of decent disposal belongs to the

Surviving spouse

With respect to ethics, the term citizenship refers to

The behavior or character of an individual viewed as a member of society

When a dead human body is in the mortuary, the funeral home is said to have

Actual custody

If a funeral director receives the remains from another funeral home and the conditions are below standard, he should

Attempt to make the remains presentable before viewing

Which of the following is not an allied profession or service to the funeral industry?

Banking Professional

When dealing responsibly with the media, an ethical funeral director should

Be discrete in the information they release

A gift of personal property received through a will is a

Bequest

That branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions is

Ethics

A personal representative of the decedent appointed in the will to carry out the provisions of the will is called

Executor

The most positive sign of death is

Generalized decomposition

Which of the following is a reason to have continued education in funeral service?

Good for self improvement

Which of the following is not a good personal ethical trait?

Infidelity

In recognizing ethical standards in his professional responsibility to the press, the funeral director

Must exercise discretion in releasing confidential information

Which of the following is considered to be a component of a funeral director's individual relationship?

Their relationship with the family

All of the following are true of laws EXCEPT

They are imposed internally

Beliefs that are held in high esteem are

Values

A written disposition of property, real or personal, to take effect at the death of an individual is called a

Will

Quasi-property means

Almost property

A system or code of morals of a particular philosopher, religion, group, or profession is called

Code of ethics

A person who dies leaving a valid will is called a

Testator

All of the following would be considered an allied service EXCEPT

A Public agency

A proportional reduction of a legacy when the funds or assets out of which such legacy are payable are not sufficient to pay it in full is

Abatement

An action to recover possession of property unlawfully detained is

Replevin

Law is defined as

Rules that govern society

Moral principles that vary circumstances are referred to as

Situational ethics

Which of the following denotes good professional ethics in community relationships?

Speaking to a local church group