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How do you call a person in charge of a body at a funeral?
Funeral Director
Where was Hitler's funeral?
Hitler didn't have a funeral, his body was burned and that was how he was disposed of.
Who is a person in charge of a body before a funeral?
The funeral director.
For a funeral what is the difference between a wake and a viewing?
Wake is more like the sitting in before the funeral and often has food and people talking about the dead person.A funeral is the formal process of preparing a body and performing the burial (or cremation). A wake is a celebration of the life of the deceased.a wake is when you go to the house the night or day before funeral and youlook at the body,bless yourself or kiss the body
What is wake keeping?
Wake keeping is a Nigerian custom where people stay with a dead body from late evening until early morning. This is done the night before the funeral.
Wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite?
pyre funeral pyre (Scheiterhaufen)
What was missing from Lenin's funeral?
Lenin's body.
What is a paupers funeral?
Social and religious rules mean that a funeral and disposal of a dead body is mandatory. Historically, not everybody could afford a funeral, so there was the most basic where the body would be placed in a sack and then given a religious ceremony. The coffin would be opened, body in sack removed, and re-used. The body would be dumped, and buried with other unfortunates later on.
What does a funeral director do when they get a body from the hospital?
Hello. Bascially a funeral director prepares the body for burial. This can include embalming or cremation. They dress the body, prepare make-up and hair so the body will appropriate for viewing if desired by the family.
How do Catholic funerals differ from non-Catholic ones?
A traditional Catholic Funeral depends on the culture that the funeral is being held in. The traditional Catholic Western Cultural funeral begins with a mass in which the body is blessed, mass is said, and the body is placed in the grave. the biggest difference is that there is a catholic mass in the funeral rights.
What is a funeral parlor?
Funeral parlors are places where funeral directors have facilities to store and prepare corpses for burial or cremation. Some also have areas set aside for viewing the body or for small funeral services to be held.
How do funeral directors keep the body cool at the funeral?
The body is kept cold in the morgue at the hospital or at the funeral home before the embalming because your body starts to deteriorate upon death and the cold retards that deterioration. Once the embalming takes place the body doesnt need to be kept as cold because the purpose for embalming is to slow that deterioration.
