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GLOSSARY OF FUNERAL AND CEMETERY TERMS
Courtesy of the California Department
of Consumer Affairs, Cemetery and Funeral Bureau
Alternative Container: An unfinished wood box or
other non-metal receptacle without ornamentation, often made of fiberboard,
pressed wood or composition materials, and generally lower in cost than caskets.
Casket/Coffin: A box or chest for burying remains.
Cemetery Property: A grave, crypt or niche.
Cemetery Services: Opening and closing graves,
crypts or niches; setting grave liners and vaults; setting markers; and
long-term maintenance of cemetery grounds and facilities.
Columbarium: A structure with niches (small spaces)
for placing cremated remains in urns or other approved containers. It may be
outdoors or part of a mausoleum.
Cremation: Exposing remains and the container
encasing them to extreme heat and flame and processing the resulting bone
fragments to a uniform size and consistency.
Crypt: A space in a mausoleum or other building to
hold cremated or whole remains.
Disposition: The placement of cremated or whole
remains in their final resting place.
Endowment Care Fund: Money collected from cemetery
property purchasers and placed in trust for the maintenance and upkeep of the
cemetery.
Entombment: Burial in a mausoleum. Funeral Ceremony
A service commemorating the deceased, with the body present.
Funeral Services: Services provided by a funeral
director and staff, which may include consulting with the family on funeral
planning; transportation, shelter, refrigeration and embalming of remains;
preparing and filing notices; obtaining authorizations and permits; and
coordinating with the cemetery, crematory or other third parties.
Funeral Planning Society: See Memorial Society.
Grave: A space in the ground in a cemetery for the
burial of remains.
Grave Liner or A concrete: cover that fits over a
casket in a grave. Some liners cover tops and sides of the casket. Others,
referred to as vaults, completely enclose the casket. Grave liners minimize
ground settling.
Graveside Service: A service to commemorate the
deceased held at the cemetery before burial.
Headstone: A grave marker or monument marking the
gravesite.
Interment: Burial in the ground, inurnment or
entombment.
Inurnment: The placing of cremated remains in an
urn.
Mausoleum: A building in which remains are buried or
entombed.
Memorial Service: A ceremony commemorating the
deceased, without the body present.
Memorial Society: An organization that provides
information about funerals and disposition, but is not part of the
state-regulated funeral industry.
Niche: A space in a columbarium, mausoleum or niche
wall to hold an urn.
Urn: A container to hold cremated remains. It can be
placed in a columbarium or mausoleum, or buried in the ground.
Vault: A grave liner that completely encloses a
casket.
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