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A funeral director, also known as an undertaker or mortician (American English), is a professional who has licenses in funeral arranging and embalming (or preparation of the deceased) involved in the business of funeral rites.
In 1898, Price's business had around 40 horses, and the largest amount of funeral carriages and funeral equipment in the city of Richmond. According to Richmond Planet , the group of African American funeral directors in the city owned more carriages than the white undertakers combined. [ 1 ]
A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. [1] Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
The first embalming school, Cincinnati School of Embalming, was created in 1882. [7] As a means of monitoring and establishing the protocol for handling corpses, the first mortuary schools were established in 1898, along with the National Funeral Directors Association, which is still the leading industry association today. [6]
Until their funeral and disposal, the dead presented a risk of ritual pollution. This was managed through funerary rituals which separated them from the world of the living, and consigned their spirit to the underworld. Professional undertakers were available to organise the funeral, manage the rites and dispose of the body. Even the simplest ...
Allyse Worland is a first-generation funeral director licensed in Indiana and Kentucky. More young women are now enrolling in mortuary schools as the industry faces a labor shortage.
A funeral can be as interesting and diverse as the deceased and their loved ones. I’m thinking of a ceremony at Columcille – a local megalith parks with standing stones.
[1] 1921 First Avenue now falls within the Pike Place Market Historic District, [5] although the market was not founded until 1907. [6] The building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 14, 1971. [7] The Butterworth Block [1] or Butterworth Building [7] was the city's first custom-built modern mortuary. [1]