Mors 200 Arts Final - Funeral Service Management and Merchandising Vocabulary Part 2

A cemetery marker that has a face that has an angle greater than 45 degrees but less than 90 degrees in relationship to the terrain.

The part of the casket handle, attached to the lug or arm, which is grasped by the casketbearer.

The value that occurs most frequently in a group of numbers.

A material consisting of extremely fine filaments of glass embedded in various resins.

A device upon which two or three caskets are placed, one on top of the other for display or storage.

An outer enclosure which offers protection from the earth load but without protection from the elements.

A type of semi-luster or semi-gloss casket finish that is smooth with well defined fine lines or striations.

Pressed paper in sheet form; used in casket construction as a backing (upholstery) material.

A wheeled collapsible support for the casket, used in the funeral home, church, or home.

The relationship between the wholesale cost of the merchandise and the total cost (both service and merchandise) to the consumer.

A division of the total into four intervals, each one representing one-fourth of the total.

A casket constructed from many different species of wood (ex: poplar, cottonwood); sometimes referred to as ____ or willow; the component parts of a single casket will not necessarily be constructed of the same species of wood.

A grave liner consisting of six or eight slabs of unfinished concrete placed around the casket.

Use of portions of caskets (1/2, 1/4, 1/8) om the selection room v. full sized caskets.

A physical object that is erected for the purpose of remembering.

The method of selling caskets whereby the funeral director remains in the selection room throughout the selection process.

Wood that has been shredded into spaghetti like strings.

Molten bronze poured into a mold and allowed to cool.

Compose the sides and ends of the casket shell.

A container for cremated remains; a vase with a foot or pedestal.

The upper and lower limits of a series of numbers.

A rigid container which is designed for the encasement of human remains and lined with fabric (FTC); a case or receptacle in which human remains are placed for protection, practical utility, and a suitable memory picture; any box or container of one or more parts in which a dead human body is placed prior to interment, entombment, or cremation which may or may not be permanently interred, entombed, or cremated with the dead human remains.

The handles, ornamental fixtures and their fittings that are attached to the casket shell.

An exterior casket finish in which the metal is coated with a substance that wrinkles as it dries; usually used on less expensive caskets.

The lining attached to the undersurface of the foot panel of the casket and/or a component part of the throw (overlay) which extends downward into the body of the casket.