Funeral Home Visit

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Funeral Home Visit

• Michaelson Funeral Home
• Owatonna, MN

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Job of a Mortician

• Serve the living while caring for the dead
• 80 of your time is spent on families, other
  people involved
• Only 20 of your time is actually spent on the
  deceased

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Terms

• Loss- being deprived of something
• Bereavement- feelings of someone who is deprived
• Grief- emotional reaction to deprivation
• Mourning- physical acting out of grief

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Statistics

• 90 of people will die in an institution
• Hospital
• Nursing home
• Assisted living
• Infant mortality decreasing

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Death Causes Crisis

• Decision making ability is diminished
• Unnatural thought process
• Seeing things
• Hearing things
• Funeral Directors job is to help the living cope
  with the loss

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Order of Events- Chronological

• 1. First Call
• Embalming permission
• Set time to for arrangement conference
• Vital information and Photo
• 2. Arrangement Conference
• Successful grief reaction
• Complete relationship with deceased
• Create and retain an accurate memory picture
• Find a way to say goodbye

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Order of events- Chronological (cont.)

• 3. Family Reviewal
• Private
• Time to regroup
• 4. Public Visitation
• 5. Funeral Service
• 6. Dispostion
• Burial
• Cremation

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Cost of Funerals

• Services- 4,855
• Merchandise
• Casket- Avg. 2,000
• Vault- 2,040
• Cash Advances- 1,500-2,000
• Total- 10,395-10,895

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Embalming

• Not required by State of MN unless
• 1. Public Visitation
• 2. 72 Hour Rule
• 3. Public Transportation
• 4. Commissioner of Health order

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Organ Donation

• Body donation to science
• Organ/Tissue donation
• Skin
• Bone
• Heart
• Eyes
• Kidneys
• Liver
• Lungs
• Check your license and let family know wishes