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Essay on Semiotics - an Analysis of Funeral Homes
In the late 18th century the care of the dead began to be handed over to persons outside the family: cabinetmakers, church sextons and owners of livery services. For thousands of years, humans have believed that a dead human body deserves decent and respectful treatment. Each professional had something special to offer. The cabinetmakers crafted coffins. Furniture stores sold coffins and related funeral merchandise. The church sextons laid-out and managed graveyards next to the church, and the livery operators had wagons in which to carry the deceased to the graveyard. It is from these four professions that most family owned funeral service businesses began in the United States. Embalming was rarely utilized.
Funerals in the contemporary United States
Within the United States, in most cultural groups and regions, the funeral rituals have been divided into three principal parts:
A "viewing" or "wake" in which the embalmed body of the deceased person is placed on display in the coffin or today most often called a casket. At the viewing, the friends and relations greet the more distant relatives and friends of the dead person(s) in a social gathering with little in the way of ritual. The viewing often takes place on one or two evenings before the funeral. The only prescribed aspects of this gathering are that frequently the attendees sign a book kept by the decedent's survivors to record who attended and that the attendees are expected to view the decedent's body in the coffin. The decedent's closest friends and relatives who are unable to attend frequently send flowers to the viewing. The viewing typically takes place at a funeral home, which is equipped with gathering rooms where the viewing can be conducted. The viewing may end with a prayer service; in the Catholic funeral, this may include a.......
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