Survey of current expectations in American Funeral Practice with emphasis on task and personality of the practitioner. Trends and issues in embalming practice from ancient Egyptian burial rites to current American practices and foreign procedures.
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Funeral |
Wake |
Embalming/Embalmer |
| Rites |
Ritual |
Mourning |
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Burial |
Necropoetics |
Memorialization |
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Internment |
Necropolitics |
Commemoration |
| Undertaking/Undertaker |
Bereavement |
Mausoleum |
| Traditions |
Death |
Tomb |
| Ceremonies | Spiritualism | Seance/Spiritualism |
| Myths/Folklore/Fairy-Tales | History/Anthropology/Sociology |
Grief/Grieving |
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