Information about Funeral Home
A funeral home, or mortuary, is a business that provides burial and funeral services for the deceased and their families. These services may include a prepared wake and funeral, and the provision of a chapel for the funeral.
There are a few common types of services in the United States of America. A Traditional Funeral Service consists of a Viewing (sometimes referred to as a Wake), a funeral service at the church of the deceased (or at the Mortuary chapel), and a graveside committal service. Direct Cremation consists of the mortuary receiving the remains of the deceased, filing the necessary paperwork (according to State Laws), and completing the cremation process. Direct/Immediate Burial is when the family of the deceased forgoes a funeral ceremony and solely wishes their loved one to be buried in a timely manner. Forwarding or Receiving of remains to or from another Mortuary is comprised of preparing the body for shipment in a Casket strapped into an airtray or a Combination Unit. This is used when the cemetery in which the deceased is to be buried lies in another State or country.
When the deceased are brought to the funeral home, they are usually embalmed to delay decomposition. The embalming procedure involves removal of blood from the corpse and the use of makeup to make corpse look more lifelike. If the deceased was disfigured from an accident or illness, the embalmer can sometimes perform restorative services to make the corpse presentable for an open casket service. If the embalmer is unable, or if the family requests otherwise, the funeral home can perform a closed casket service.
The funeral home often sets aside one or more large areas for families to gather at a visitation. This area contains a space to display the deceased in their casket for visitors to pay their respects. Funeral services and memorial services may also take place at the funeral home. Funeral homes also offer prearrangement services for those who wish to prepare their own funeral services before death.
Because of the increasing popularity of cremation, there are more funeral homes with crematoriums. Funeral homes without facilities on-site often contract the work out to other firms.
Some funeral homes are family owned and operated. Others are part of larger corporations; however, unlike those in other industries, these corporations often act anonymously to appear as if they are family owned. One of the largest corporations is Service Corporation International.
Services
Funeral homes arrange services in accordance with the wishes of families and the deceased. The funeral home often takes care of the necessary paperwork, permits, and other details, such as making arrangements with the cemetery, and providing obituaries to the news media.There are a few common types of services in the United States of America. A Traditional Funeral Service consists of a Viewing (sometimes referred to as a Wake), a funeral service at the church of the deceased (or at the Mortuary chapel), and a graveside committal service. Direct Cremation consists of the mortuary receiving the remains of the deceased, filing the necessary paperwork (according to State Laws), and completing the cremation process. Direct/Immediate Burial is when the family of the deceased forgoes a funeral ceremony and solely wishes their loved one to be buried in a timely manner. Forwarding or Receiving of remains to or from another Mortuary is comprised of preparing the body for shipment in a Casket strapped into an airtray or a Combination Unit. This is used when the cemetery in which the deceased is to be buried lies in another State or country.
When the deceased are brought to the funeral home, they are usually embalmed to delay decomposition. The embalming procedure involves removal of blood from the corpse and the use of makeup to make corpse look more lifelike. If the deceased was disfigured from an accident or illness, the embalmer can sometimes perform restorative services to make the corpse presentable for an open casket service. If the embalmer is unable, or if the family requests otherwise, the funeral home can perform a closed casket service.
The funeral home often sets aside one or more large areas for families to gather at a visitation. This area contains a space to display the deceased in their casket for visitors to pay their respects. Funeral services and memorial services may also take place at the funeral home. Funeral homes also offer prearrangement services for those who wish to prepare their own funeral services before death.
Because of the increasing popularity of cremation, there are more funeral homes with crematoriums. Funeral homes without facilities on-site often contract the work out to other firms.
Some funeral homes are family owned and operated. Others are part of larger corporations; however, unlike those in other industries, these corporations often act anonymously to appear as if they are family owned. One of the largest corporations is Service Corporation International.
Funeral homes in popular culture
- The television series Six Feet Under portrayed a fictional funeral home.
- The television series Family Plots showed the operations of an actual Californian funeral home. The show lasted for two seasons before it was canceled.
- In the movie My Girl Harry Sultenfuss (Dan Aykroyd) ran a mortuary from his home.
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A funeral is a ceremony marking a person's death.
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A funeral is a ceremony marking a person's death.
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A wake is a ceremony associated with death. Traditionally, a wake takes place in the house of the deceased, with the body present; however, modern wakes are often performed at a funeral home.
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chapel is a holy place or area of worship, sometimes small and attached to a larger institution such as a large church, a college, a hospital, a palace, a prison or a cemetery, sometimes large and unattached to another building.
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cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term cemetery (from Greek κοιμητήριον: sleeping place) implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground.
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obituary attempt to give an account of the texture and significance of the life of someone who has recently died. It is to be distinguished from a death notice (also known as a funeral notice), which is a paid advertisement written by family members and placed in the
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Embalming, in most modern cultures, is the art and science of temporarily preserving human remains to forestall decomposition and to make them suitable for display at a funeral.
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Cremation is the act of reducing a corpse to ashes by burning, generally in a crematorium furnace or crematory fire. In funerals, cremation can be an alternative funeral rite to the burial of a body in a grave.
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Cremation is the act of reducing a corpse to ashes by burning, generally in a crematorium furnace or crematory fire. In funerals, cremation can be an alternative funeral rite to the burial of a body in a grave.
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For other uses of the acronym SCI, see SCI
Service Corporation International or SCI is a corporation based in Houston, Texas which is the largest provider of funeral, cremation, and cemetery services in the United States,[1]
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Service Corporation International or SCI is a corporation based in Houston, Texas which is the largest provider of funeral, cremation, and cemetery services in the United States,[1]
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Six Feet Under is an American television drama created by Alan Ball that was originally broadcast from 2001 to 2005. It was produced by Alan Ball, Alan Poul, Robert Greenblatt and David Janollari.
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Family Plots was a reality television show that followed the ongoing events and the eccentric employees that work at the family-run Poway Bernardo Mortuary in Poway, California. It ran for two seasons on the A&E Network.
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My Girl is a 1991 coming-of-age dramatic comedy starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky. It was written by Laurice Elehwany and directed by Howard Zieff.
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My Girl is a 1991 coming-of-age dramatic comedy starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky. It was written by Laurice Elehwany and directed by Howard Zieff.
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The death industry refers to companies and organizations that receive money in exchange for services for the dead. This includes for example funeral homes, post-mortem fees, and headstone creation.
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External links
- Funeral Consumers Alliance
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Funeral Consumers Alliance is a nonprofit federation of organizations ("memorial societies" or "funeral planning societies") in the United States and Canada "dedicated to protecting a consumer's right to choose a meaningful, dignified, affordable funeral.
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