Exam 11: Coping With Loss and Grief: Funeral Practices and Other Ways Communities Can Help

Answer both halves of this question. a. Choose any two (2) of the tasks that have been associated in Chapter 11 in our textbook with funeral practices, and explain carefully what the funeral is supposed to accomplish with regard to each of the selected tasks. b. Give a specific example of an action you have experienced at a funeral or which you would suggest for a funeral, which could successfully carry out each of the tasks discussed in (a), showing in each case how the example might serve to carry out that task.

Why are crises in life "dangerous opportunities?" What can this teach us about ritual? pp. 285-287

In Chapter 11 in our textbook, it is argued that funerals can help bereaved persons with three important tasks associated with the death of someone close to them. Identify and explain each of these tasks.

Funeral practices are intended to assist bereaved persons and society by .

For those who wish to donate their bodies for teaching or research purposes, .

Memorial photography in the United States .

Bereavement support groups are founded on .

The central helping factors around which most bereavement support groups are organized include:

Aftercare programs in the funeral industry that involve extra staff but no extensive training and that offer telephone calls, newsletters, social, dinners, and travel illustrate .

Ritual is said to be "a general word for corporate symbolic activity." In this view ritual involves:

Disposing of the body in ways that contribute to realization of the implications of death is assisted through:

Phyllis Silverman has written that the "sharing of experience is the fundamental concept that distinguishes the mutual help experience from other helping exchanges." What does this mean? How is it accomplished in bereavement support groups?

Here is a description of a wake and a funeral service. At the funeral home, the body is laid out in a casket near the front of the viewing room. The top half of the body is visible. People come to the funeral home and talk with family members, and usually go up to the casket and view, and sometimes touch, the body. The next day, a short service led by a clergyperson is held at the funeral home. Then several people in several cars follow the hearse to the cemetery. There the casket is placed above the open grave. A short ceremony is held at this gravesite; then the family leaves. After they are gone, the casket is lowered into the grave. Chapter 11 in our textbook argues that there are several tasks associated with funeral ritual. Choose two (2) of the tasks discussed, and using the above description, show how what was done there was likely to be helpful or unhelpful in accomplishing those tasks. Explain your answer carefully.

Achieving a new integration after death may be difficult when .

Explain aftercare programs in the funeral industry. What do they try to do? How are different types of such programs similar and also dissimilar?

What is the role of a viewing, visitation, or wake in funeral rituals? Note that this event may have different names in different social groups.

Another term for the task of "making real" the implications of death for survivors through funeral and memorial ritual is:

Research on funeral practices in American has shown .

Hospice bereavement care _.

According to their advocates, which of the following are thought to be "green" or environmentally friendly practices?