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DelorasTo

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Which of the following is the most popular means of disposition in the United States?
 
  a. Entombment
  b. Cremation
  c. Earth burial
  d. Burial at sea

Question 2

Which of these statements concerning the practice of embalming and preparation of the body for burial is Answer: True?
 
  a. Embalming became popular as a result of the World War I practice of embalming thebodies of soldiers before shipping them home from European battlefields.
 b. The germ theory of disease had little impact on the popularity of the practice ofembalming the body after death.
 c. In the 1920s it was the goal of many funeral directors to make the corpse look asthough it were alive.
 d. None of the above.



nathang24

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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

C



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