The History of American Funeral Directing
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Thanatochemistry
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This is the only chemistry reference produced specifically for mortuary science by a major publisher. In a comprehensible manner, the authors present the essential facts of chemistry and the chemical aspects of other sciences related to mortuary science. It follows closely the recommended course curriculum and glossary of the American Board of Funeral Service Education. Topic organization flows logically from inorganic to organic to biochemistry. Examples of solved problems and common mistakes are provided, and embalming applications are offered throughout. Physical and Chemical Changes; States and Types of Matter; Atomic Structure and Chemical Bonding; Chemical Shorthand: Symbols, Formulas, and Equations; Radiation Chemistry; Oxygen; Hydrogen; Water; Solutions; Acids, Bases, Salts, and Ionization; Hydrates and Hydrolysis; Hydrocarbons; Alcohols and Ethers; Aldehydes and Ketones; Carboxylic Acids and Esters; Amines and Amides; Proteins; Enzymes; Carbohydrates; Lipids; Summary of the Action and Composition of Embalming Fluids. MARKET: A comprehensive reference for mortuary science professionals.
Fires of Change
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A Comprehensive Examination of Cremation
Purified by Fire
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Just one hundred years ago, Americans almost universally condemned cremation. Today, nearly one-quarter of Americans choose to be cremated. The practice has gained wide acceptance as a funeral rite, in both our private and public lives, as the cremations of icons such as John Lennon and John F. Kennedy Jr. show. Purified by Fire tells the fascinating story of cremation's rise from notoriety to legitimacy and takes a provocative new look at important transformations in the American cultural landscape over the last 150 years. Stephen Prothero synthesizes a wide array of previously untapped source material, including newspapers, consumer guides, mortician trade journals, and popular magazines such as Reader's Digest to provide this first historical study of cremation in the United States. He vividly describes many noteworthy events--from the much-criticized first American cremation in 1876 to the death and cremation of Jerry Garcia in the late twentieth century. From the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era to the baby boomers of today, this book takes us on a tour through American culture and traces our changing attitudes toward death, religion, public health, the body, and the environment.
Discovering Computers and Microsoft® Office 2016
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Combine strong computer concepts from the best-selling DISCOVERING COMPUTERS with proven step-by-step instruction on Microsoft® Office 2016 in one convenient book. DISCOVERING COMPUTERS & MICROSOFT® OFFICE 365 & OFFICE 2016: A FUNDAMENTAL COMBINED APPROACH delivers the best of Shelly Cashman Series® in a single resource for your Introduction to Computers course. As part of the Series that has effectively introduced computer skills to millions of students, this book encourages critical thought, personalization, and experimentation with the latest Microsoft ® Office 365 and 2016 software. Updated and revised computer concepts content throughout this edition reflect the evolving needs of today's Introductory Computing students, focusing exclusively on the skills students need to be successful in college and beyond. Enhancements throughout this edition ensure this book delivers the most effective introduction to Microsoft ® Office 2016 with extensive resources for both you and your students.
Funeral Directing and Funeral Service Management
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Grave Matters
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By the time Nate Fisher was laid to rest in a woodland grave sans coffin in the final season of Six Feet Under, Americans all across the country were starting to look outside the box when death came calling. Grave Matters follows families who found in "green" burial a more natural, more economic, and ultimately more meaningful alternative to the tired and toxic send-off on offer at the local funeral parlor. Eschewing chemical embalming and fancy caskets, elaborate and costly funerals, they have embraced a range of natural options, new and old, that are redefining a better American way of death. Environmental journalist Mark Harris examines this new green burial underground, leading you into natural cemeteries and domestic graveyards, taking you aboard boats from which ashes and memorial "reef balls" are cast into the sea. He follows a family that conducts a home funeral, one that delivers a loved one to the crematory, and another that hires a carpenter to build a pine coffin. In the morbidly fascinating tradition of Stiff, Grave Matters details the embalming process and the environmental aftermath of the standard funeral. Harris also traces the history of burial in America, from frontier cemeteries to the billion-dollar business it is today, reporting on real families who opted for more simple, natural returns. For readers who want to follow the examples of these families and, literally, give back from the grave, appendices detail everything you need to know, from exact costs and laws to natural burial providers and their contact information.
Funeral Service Marketing and Merchandise
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This book was designed to meet two broad goals:1. Provide a modern and progressive textbook for mortuary science students taking college courses of instruction in the mortuary sciences to prepare them for entering the workforce.2. Provide a detailed and relevant reference book for current funeral service professionals, thereby providing them with the knowledge and information they need to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing funeral service industry.The funeral service community needs to embrace current trends and movements, and view them as opportunities to offer additional goods and services, especially those designed to attract the ever more astute and cost-conscious consumer. Funeral service suppliers and vendors are actively expanding inventories to include these new products, with an emphasis on those that customize and personalize a funeral service. Funeral directors with a focus on injecting these new and innovative goods and services into their offerings will most certainly be successful in maintaining future business goals and objectives.
TRAVERSING the MINEFIELD: Best Practice
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Business Law Today, the Essentials
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Interesting, clear, and applied, BUSINESS LAW TODAY, THE ESSENTIALS: TEXT AND SUMMARIZED CASES, 11E is your concise guide to the law and what it means in the business world -- from contracts and secured transactions to warranties and government regulations. Easy to understand with an engaging writing style that is matched by vibrant visuals, BUSINESS LAW TODAY: THE ESSENTIALS includes coverage of contemporary topics that impact not only the business world, but also your own life. Examine the financial crisis and its impact on business law or identity theft, immigration law or diversity issues. Fascinating features and intriguing cases highlight the practicality of the concepts you are learning. Numerous learning support resources provide tools that address various learning styles.
Cengage Advantage Books: Law for Business
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LAW FOR BUSINESS, 19E from Cengage Advantage Books provides a practical approach to law that emphasizes the current, relevant topics you need to succeed in business today. Compelling cases throughout this edition highlight recent business challenges, such as trademark infringement, capacity to contract, agency, and employment-at-will. In addition, timely coverage of business ethics and the law provides new insights into recent corporate scandals and indictments. Popular legal authors Ashcroft, Ashcroft, and Patterson combine short chapters and a full-color design with real-world examples and applications. They integrate helpful Learning Objectives and optional online tools, such as the MindTap learning system complete with legal videos, to make business law approachable, engaging and applicable for your future success.
Complying with the funeral rule
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Mortuary Law
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"Burial laws--United States. Undertakers and Undertaking--Law and legislation--United States"- Mango catalog
Embalming: History, Theory, and Practice, Sixth Edition
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The most complete and up-to-date text on the art and science of embalming This new edition of the trusted classic delivers the most current information on the art and science of embalming, restorative art, and mortuary cosmetology. The authors give special attention to creating a safe working environment, from the standpoint of ergonomics, personal hygiene, and the use of embalming chemicals. Expanded technical areas of the book help you prepare the body for viewing without using standard embalming chemicals. Embalming: History, Theory, and Practice features thorough coverage of: Legal, social, and technical considerations of embalming Health and regulatory standards Chemicals and methods Specific conditions and causes of death that influence the type of embalming Preparation of anatomical donors Preparation of organ and tissue donors Embalming for shipping New to this edition: All new color photographs New chapter on the preparation of organ and tissue donors Additional questions and terminology in each chapter Updated information on instrumentation and OSHA material Greater emphasis on the use of personal protective equipment Alternative methods of body disposition
Embalming Standards of Care
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This book is written to inspire the next generation of embalmers to be the best they can be and remind the "old hands" that we can still learn and strive for greatness. The families that we serve deserve it. There are those who proclaim that embalming is dying or dead (pun intended). Cremation is the only future, some say. "Don't waste your time learning embalming for goodness sake. Learn to rebuild the retort or replace the recording wheel. After all, those are the required skills of the future. Furthermore, formaldehyde will be outlawed and that will be the end of embalming," others will say. For those of you in states where cremation is (or will be) in the 70-90% range, remember that there will still be that percentage of families who may want traditional services that include embalming. There will also be those who want cremation after embalming and visitation. It is the embalmer in these high cremation areas who really needs to maintain skills so that when called upon, you are ready. It is the previous embalmers who will be limited by repetition due to cremation and who must really remember and practice standards of care and professional techniques. Will embalming decrease over the coming decades? It already has. Will embalming and embalmers become obsolete like typewriters and printed yellow pages? No. In fact, great embalmers will naturally excel in a free market system. There will be a need for great embalmers. It is my hope that the following pages, chapters, standards, and ideas empower those of you who are embalmers and those of you who want to be prepared to serve those families who will value the services that only a professional embalmer can provide.
Color and cosmetics: the consummation of restorative art
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Color in funerals. Mortuary cosmetology.
Restorative Art
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Postmortem plastic surgery. Embalming.
Facial Reconstruction for Artists
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A guide to producing realistic faces and expressions using techniques of facial reconstruction. Artists traditionally strive to produce beautiful and/or inspiring art. The goal of a forensic artist, however, is to produce a likeness of an individual that might lead to recognition. Using the skull as the foundation, the forensic artist uses various skeletal markers and identifiers to reconstruct the face. This book will provide you with infomation that will help you increase your skills, enhance your talents, and learn those details that will add additional realism to your figures.
Pathology and Microbiology for Mortuary Science
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Pathology and Microbiology for Mortuary Science is a comprehensive book for the study of pathology and microbiology written for mortuary science students, as a resource for educators, and as a reference for funeral directors and embalmers. The book is designed around the current American Board of Funeral Service Education's Curriculum Outlines for pathology and microbiology. Quick reference appendices provide a review of pertinent anatomy and physiology. Case studies in chapters that discuss specific diseases allow learners to review the postmortem condition of human remains in relation to the disease.
The art of facial reconstruction
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Ethnic Variations in Dying, Death and Grief
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Death-Cross cultural studies. Death customs. -from Mango catalog
25 Funeral Planning Essentials
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*** Bonus: Free downloads of all new releases as well as reports related to this eBook Absolutely FREE. Click "Look Inside" above to subscribe ***Check out what others are saying...This book introduces you to funeral planning, and it tells you why you should plan for the funeral of the deceased. Through the book, you are able to make final arrangements and notify people of the deceased through obituaries. You are presented with valuable information on how to prepare for the funeral service and final disposition. Increased consideration has been given to the subject of funeral planning to the extent that people employ the services of a consultant. However, you can cut down on such costs by accessing the information in this book concerning funeral planning. WHO is this Book for?The book enables you to prepare a suitable plan; therefore, you do not have to go through the stress of trying to arrange a funeral while running against time.The book provides you with the necessary information to plan for a funeral; hence you do not need the services of a consultant.The book acts as a guide and at the same time as a reference whenever you want to be certain about a given aspect of funeral preparation.7REASONS to Buy this Book:The book provides you with a good starting point in your funeral preparations.The book enables you to prepare for a funeral without the services of a funeral consultant.The book allows you to cut down on cost by providing you with alternatives.Through the book you are able to learn on how to remember the deceased.The book guarantees you success in achieving the perfect funeral preparations.The book provides you with knowledge of final disposition, including cremation and burial.Want to Know More? Just Scroll to the Top of the Page and Select the BUY buttonYou do NOT need a Kindle device to read this eBook. Read from Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Android, BlackBerry, Windows phones, smartphones and tablets. Also, read from Amazon Kindle, Kindle Cloud Reader, and Kindle applications for PC. Tags :Funeral Guest Books, Funeral Flowers, Funeral Urns, Funeral Planning, Funeral Dress, Euology, Liturgy, Obituaries, Cremation
Essentials for Practicing Home Funeral Guides
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Essential for Practicing Home Funeral Guides is a manual, template, and best practices all-in-one collection that every home funeral guide needs to organize necessary paperwork in order to ensure consistent, quality service to families caring for their own after death.
Approaching the End of Life
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In her more than forty years as a minister, Rev. Donna Schaper has been approached hundreds of times by people wanting to know how to prepare for the end of life in both practical and spiritual matters. Countless others have turned to her for guidance on how to handle the death of a loved one. From making a will and planning a memorial service to finding peace in the toughest circumstances, Approaching the End of Life offers practical and spiritual guidance to anyone wrestling with the end of a life. With sensitivity and humor Rev. Schaper helps readers face aging and mortality with freedom rather than fear. She encourages readers to find a spiritual home of some kind--even if it is far from the doors of a church--and offers helpful suggestions on memorials and funeral services that will be well suited to the departed while serving the loved ones in their grief and celebration. The book also includes practical resources such as a service planning checklist, a template for a funeral or memorial service, and more.
Estate planning
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Exploring the Heart of Funeral Service
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This book explores the heart of funeral service. It is written by a funeral director and is designed for other funeral professionals. The book is set up into two parts: Navigating Funeral Communications and The Principles of Funeral Service Counseling. This work is rich with case studies, and offers perspectives on the value, purpose and benefit of funeral rites, rituals and ceremonies, as well as contributing information which is intended to enhance the profession of funeral service. While this work is intended for any body involved with the funeral profession is it also applicable to life in general, as the issues of death, dying, grief, bereavement and mourning are all center life themes for every human being on earth.
Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy
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Fourth Edition Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title Praise for the Fourth Edition: "In the fields of death education, research and counseling/psychology, surely Bill Worden is a giant...ALL of us, personally and professionally, are indebted to him]. From his work we may be just a bit wiser, a bit healthier, a bit more competent, and a lot more in touch with meaning for the sake of all who mourn." --Illness, Crisis, & Loss " If] you knew Worden's work and his writings previously, you'll find an enhanced book with a much broader and challenging perspective than his previous editions. If you are not familiar with Bill Worden, then it is time to begin." --Ben Wolfe, MEd, LICSW, Fellow in Thanatology, Program Manager/Grief Counselor, St. Mary's Medical Center's Grief Support Center Duluth, MN Encompassing new content on the treatment of grief, loss, and bereavement, the updated and revised fifth edition of this gold-standard text continues to deliver the most up-to-date research and practical information for upper-level students and practitioners alike. The fifth edition includes updates to the author's Tasks and Mediators of Mourning, new case studies, and valuable Instructor Resources. The text highlights recent initiatives to extend care to the bereaved and fosters the knowledge and skills required for effective intervention and even preventative treatment. Also addressed is the impact of social media and online resources for "cyber mourning," changes in the DSM-5 as they influence bereavement work, alternate models of mourning, and new findings on the varied qualities of grief. The fifth edition continues to present a well-organized, concise format that is easy to read and provides critical information for master's level health courses in grief counseling and grief therapy as well as for new and seasoned practitioners alike. New to the Fifth Edition: Refinements to the author's TASKS of MourningNew considerations regarding Mediators of Mourning on social variablesThe impact of social media and online resources on "cyber mourning"Complicated spiritual grief after mass shootings and other catastrophesChanges in the DSM-5 as they influence bereavement workCross-cultural and multifaceted counseling for specialized grief, including grandparent's grief, prolonged grief disorder, and HIV-AIDS-related bereavementUpdated information on grief and depressionNew case studies and updated referencesIncludes reflection and discussion questions in each chapterUpdated and revised information on grief counseling trainingAccompanying instructor packet with Manual, PowerPoint slides, and Test Bank
Funeral Service Exam Secrets Study Guide
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***Includes Practice Test Questions*** Funeral Service Exam Secrets helps you ace the Funeral Service National Board Exam, without weeks and months of endless studying. Our comprehensive Funeral Service Exam Secrets study guide is written by our exam experts, who painstakingly researched every topic and concept that you need to know to ace your test. Our original research reveals specific weaknesses that you can exploit to increase your exam score more than you've ever imagined. Funeral Service Exam Secrets includes: The 5 Secret Keys to Funeral Service Test Success: Time is Your Greatest Enemy, Guessing is Not Guesswork, Practice Smarter, Not Harder, Prepare, Don't Procrastinate, Test Yourself; A comprehensive General Strategy review including: Make Predictions, Answer the Question, Benchmark, Valid Information, Avoid Fact Traps, Milk the Question, The Trap of Familiarity, Eliminate Answers, Tough Questions, Brainstorm, Read Carefully, Face Value, Prefixes, Hedge Phrases, Switchback Words, New Information, Time Management, Contextual Clues, Don't Panic, Pace Yourself, Answer Selection, Check Your Work, Beware of Directly Quoted Answers, Slang, Extreme Statements, Answer Choice Families; A comprehensive content review including: Saponification, Jean Gannal, Thanatology, Pathological Anatomy, OSHA Regulations, Selected Hardwood, Metathesis Reaction, Types of Bereavement, Federal Income Tax, Back Muscles, Tunica Externa, Kubler-Ross, Restitution, Lindemann's Grief Syndrome, Euthanasia, Bereavement, Medical Examiner, Acknowledgement Cards, Styles of Caskets, Testatrix, Attachment Theory, Uniform Commercial Code, Embalming Fluids, Purchase Requisition, Flaring Square, Masselin, Liturgical Worship, Forwarding the Remains, Internal Autopsy, Humanistic Therapy, Hospice Care, Computer Terminology, Novation, Glomerulonephritis, Staphylococcus Aureus, Sublimation, Glomerular Capsule, Digestive System, and much more...
Prepare to Succeed
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Bank of questions to help funeral service students prepare for the National Board Exam.
Funeral Service National Board Examination (FSNBE)
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The Admission Test Series prepares students for entrance examinations into college, graduate and professional school as well as candidates for professional certification and licensure. The Funeral Service National Board Examination (FSNBE) Passbook® prepares you by sharpening the skills and abilities necessary to succeed on your upcoming entrance exam. It provides a series of informational texts as well as hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: history and sociology; funeral directing; funeral law; embalming; human anatomy; and more.