Shipping Human Remains / Week 12

Domestic

Shipping human remains within the United States.

International

Shipping human remains to or from a foreign country.

Known Shipper Program

Requires that all funeral homes or any business shipping human remains become approved as known shippers.

Air tray

Shipping container for shipping casketed remains.

Combination case

Shipping container for shipping uncasketed remains.

Gasketed

You should not crank the casket completely closed for shipping if it is what?

Consulates

Offices that serve as your point of contact for international shipping of human remains.

Apostille

The certification/legalization of a document for international use under the terms of the 1961 Hague Convention.

Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

A law permitting competent persons or others to give gifts of all or any part of the body to take effect upon death.

Eminent domain

The inherent power of a government to take private property for public use. In the US just compensation to the property owner(s) is required.

Private cemetery

A cemetery owned by a private enterprise such as a corporation for profit, a non-profit corporation, partnership, sole owners, religious orders, etc.

Public cemetery

A cemetery owned by a governmental unit (federal, state or municipal).

Disinterment or exhumation

The removal of human remains from previous location of final disposition.

3, 600

Burial at sea of human remains are not cremated shall take place how many nautical miles away from land and how many feet deep in the water?

30

All burials conducted shall be reported to the EPA within how many days?

File certificate of death, obtain burial permit, supervise interment

For a burial, a funeral director may be required to what?

Private

For which type of cemetery are graves generally not subject to anti-discrimination laws?

Honorable discharge, general discharge under honorable conditions, other than honorable discharge, bad conduct discharge, dishonorable discharge

What are the 5 most common military discharge classifications? The first two grant veteran benefits upon separation from service.

Entry level separation, medical separation, separation for convenience of government

What are the other 3 less common military discharges that may be encountered?

Veterans Affairs VA

As a funeral director, you should wait for who to confirm the eligibility of a veteran before making any promises or commitments to the family?

Section, block, lot, grave

Describe cemetery structures largest to smallest.

Right of survivorship for a jointly owned burial space

When one owner dies, this right provides for the surviving owner(s) to automatically be granted the deceased owners’ share of the property.

Desecration

The treatment of burial plots with disrespect and contempt, often in the form of vandalism or theft.

Anatomical gift

When discussing body donation with a family, what is the preferred terminology?

Cubic yard of soil amendment

In natural organic reduction, one decedent creates roughly one what?

30

In natural organic reduction, the human remains and plant material remain in the vessel for how many days?

Washington, Oregon, Colorado

Which states have legalized natural organic reduction?

Intestate succession

The method used to distribute property owned by a person who dies without a valid will.

Receiving vault

A structure designed for the temporary storage of bodies not to be immediately interred.

Zoning ordinance

A law passed by a local unit of government which regulates and prescribes land use planning.

Alternative container

Unfinished wood box or other non-metal receptacle or enclosure, without ornamentation or a fixed interior lining, which is designed for the encasement of human remains and which is made of fiberboard, pressed-wood, composition materials, or like materials.

Body parts

Organs, tissues, eyes, bones, arteries, blood, other fluids, and other portions of a human body.

Funeral pyre

An outdoor wooden structure upon which human remains rest and are cremated when the pyre is set on fire.