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Animalistic View
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Early roman view of the afterlife where soul would hover around place of burial and required constant attention to be happy. Neglect would bring evil upon family
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Babylonians
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Culture associated with the practice of immersing the body of the dead in earthen jars filled with honey and wax
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Barber- Surgeon
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1540-1745 sole agency permitted to embalm and perform anatomical dissection in the city of London
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Bloodletting
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Belief/practice of draining a quantity of blood to cure illness or disease
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Burial case
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Generic American term for all burial recepticals
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Burial Club
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1800's London: cost of funerals were shared by others via weekly collections: forerunners of insurance
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Burial in Woolen Act 1666
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Required woolen cloths instead of linen, an attempt to shift imported linin to paper industry and supply customers for wool
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Casket
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Meaning jewel box: a ridgid container designed to encase human remains
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Catacombs
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Roman Origin: excavated cemeteries out of rock for the tombs of wealthy Christians
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Catafalque
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Raised platform used for a body to lie in state
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Chadwick Report
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1840s reporting unsanitary conditions in London due to intramural burials, high cost of funerals and the 1st use of death certificates
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Edwin Chadwich
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Investigated mass corruption in regards to English burial practices who recommended that cemeteries be municipalized and religious rites be simplified
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Circle if necessity
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Epyptian culture, the journey to the Sun and back which required 3000 years to complete
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Coffin
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Utilitarian container used to hold human remains: often anthropoidal
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Cooling Board
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Portable table where bodies where placed while corpse cooler was in use: later became home embalming tables
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