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Funeral Arrangements, 2002.
A study using a research design to identify differences in the perceptions and experiences of survivors who make final arrangements at the death of a friend or relative.
6,945 words (approx. 27.8 pages), 23 sources, MLA, $ 156.95
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The purpose of this study is to obtain insight into the attitudes of individuals who have had to make final arrangements for a deceased friend or relative and to compare their experiences and perceptions to those identified in the literature. The paper employs a quasi-experimental research design using a sample of 50 survivors identified via newspaper obituaries published 6 to 24 months prior to the study to test two research hypotheses. A full literature review of the subject is also included.
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"Many individuals attempt to avoid both the high costs of funerals and the emotional trauma of providing for final arrangements by participating in any one of a number of "pre-payment" or "pre-planning" programs offered by funeral directors and cemeterians. Pre-payment plans vary, but most include full payment for selected services and amenities (How to cut..., 1995). Payments can be made in installments, with the details of the final arrangements spelled out in contractual form. While pre-paying can eliminate some of the trauma associated with making final arrangements, there is growing evidence that pre-payment plans are not the ultimate safeguard against funeral home gouging that they were designed to be."
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Final Arrangements, 2002.
An in-depth study into whether the pre-planning and paying of a funeral for a loved one, makes the mourning and bereavement process easier on the survivors.
7,315 words (approx. 29.3 pages), 18 sources, MLA, $ 162.95
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This study identifies the differences in the perceptions and experiences of survivors who make final arrangements at the death of a friend or relative and those who oversee the execution of pre-paid and pre-planned final arrangements. Specifically, the study employs a quasi-experimental research design using a sample of 50 survivors identified via newspaper obituaries published 6 to 24 months prior to the study to test two research hypotheses. The first hypothesis states that survivors who oversee pre-paid and pre-planned final arrangements will pay less for funeral services than those who do not use this approach. The second hypothesis states that those who pre-pay or pre-plan will have less negative perceptions of funeral directors'/funeral homes' costs than those who did not pre-pay. A survey instrument is developed by the researcher employing a Likert-type scaled response; data is analyzed via descriptive and inferential (i.e., Pearson's r correlation) statistics.
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Review of Literature - Background of the Problem
Pre-Paying for Funerals
Theoretical Framework
Synthesis of the Literature
Method and Procedure -Purpose and Design of the Study
Sampling
Data Collection and Instrumentation
Procedures
Protection of Human Subjects
Data Analysis
Appendix 1-6
References
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"The cost of funeral and final expenses has never been greater for the average individual than it is today. The national average cost of final arrangements, according to the National Funeral Directors Association, is $5,543 (Taking the mystery..., 2000). Many people spend significantly more than this amount, often in excess of $8,000 - $10,000. In the past five years, the price of dying has risen about three times faster than the consumer price index (Ernst, 1998). The problem is such that the United States Senate has undertaken an investigation of fraud in the funeral industry under the aegis of the Senate Special Committee on Aging. Paying for funeral services places consumers in a vulnerable financial situation, a position made worse by the fact that grieving individuals often do not comparison shop for funeral home services, interment options, or other final arrangement services (Senate investigates fraud..., 2000). Grief-stricken mourners may be susceptible to subtle and not-so-subtle coercion and led to purchase final arrangement options beyond their ability to pay.
Singletary (2000) described her own experience in attempting to make final arrangements on behalf of her deceased brother. Noting that her primary emotion at the time was one of guilt and responsibility, coupled with loss, Singletary (2000) states that she did manage to "comparison shop" among several different funeral homes and cemeterians before making her final choice. Nevertheless, in her experience, the price range for a funeral ranged from $5,000 to $10,000 with caskets alone averaging about $2,000."
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Funeral Industry, 2005.
This paper examines software applications used in the funeral industry.
1,405 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 46.95
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This paper explains that, although the end product of funeral homes may be dramatically different than most other industries, most funeral homes need to fulfill many of the same administrative tasks that are associated with any type of business, which can be met by off-the-shelf small business management software packages; software vendors also are addressing the unique needs of funeral home directors. The author reviews several funeral home software packages such as Mortware, which provides funeral custom software that allows easy data entry, rapid form generation as well as a number of add-ons that funeral home directors can select for their own unique needs. The paper concludes that it makes good business sense to automate everything possible in a funeral home environment to allow more time for the face-to-face interactions required to ensure the perception of high quality customer service.
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Introduction
Review and Discussion
Background and Overview
Administrative and Processing Needs of a Typical Funeral Home
Software Solutions for Funeral Homes
Conclusion
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"Microsoft and other major computer providers generally provide a standard suite of software tools with their products that can be easily customized for the specific needs of a funeral home (pers. obs.). Likewise, standard software accounting packages such as Quicken are appropriate for many funeral homes' accounting needs today. For additional assistance in itemizing funeral costs, POWERsolutions has created a software package called "PreNeed" that retails for about $40; this software package provides funeral directors (or consumers) with a step-by-step guide through the decision-making process; the program also generates a final report for comparison purposes (the author notes that comparable reports can be developed by using a basic word processing or spreadsheet program). While funeral homes can manage to get along by using off-the-shelf software programs, there are a number of applications specifically designed for the funeral industry available today."
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Bereavement and Funeral Policies, 2004.
An extensive review of literature regarding bereavement and funeral policies for American military personnel.
8,242 words (approx. 33.0 pages), 46 sources, MLA, $ 176.95
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This paper presents an in-depth literature survey that examines the history and protocol of military benefits, the history of military funeral legislation, and military funeral leave and protocol as defined by federal law. The paper scrutinizes available books, articles, and Internet materials on caring leadership, in general, and on caring leadership as it relates to funeral leave benefits and the caring management of grieving employees. The paper also reviews available literature on caring leadership as a value, qualitatively and in terms of potential financial benefit to a company or organization. The paper presents an analysis and comparison of funeral leave benefits offered by a variety of public organizations and private companies to their employees, comparing them with each other and with those of U.S. military personnel.
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Introduction
Federal Legislation on Military and Government Funerals, Funeral Leave, and Bereavement Leave
Literature on Caring Leadership
Literature on Grief Management in the Workplace
Funeral and Bereavement Leave Policies of Specific Organizations
Potential Advantages and Drawbacks of Incorporating Official Bereavement Processes and Expanded Funeral Benefits for United States Government Employees Other than Military Personnel
Conclusion
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"Other documents on military funerals, history, protocol, employee leave, and entitlements surveyed for the study included: Military funerals - A brief history (2005); History of Taps (2005); Funeral leave (2005); Military funeral support (2004); Funeral honors ceremony (2005); Banusiewics (2004), and Military funerals (2002). All of these sources contained also information on military funeral protocol, including the facts that: the military has a litany of regulations regarding its funeral procedures. When military personnel pass, there are federal laws and formal procedures in place to acknowledge them, based on Title 38 of the United States Code, Section 112. Military funeral protocols spelled out by federal law include: (1) At least two military personnel being sent to the funeral; (2) Taps being played by a bugler, if available, and if not, a recording of Taps being played; (3) a 21-gun salute being given to honor a fallen soldier, under particular circumstances;(4) an American flag being first folded thirteen (13) times by the military detail conducting the ceremony, and the folded flag then being given, by the military detail leader, to the next-of kin; (4) special words of condolence being spoken, by the detail leader, to the next-of-kin; and (5) a Certificate of Honor, signed by the current President of the United States, being made available, upon request, to the next of kin."
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Six Sigma and a Funeral Home, 2006.
This paper employs the Six Sigma quality management system to evaluate a small funeral home.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 4 sources, $ 106.95
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The paper discusses quality management and productivity as it applies to the small business enterprise and particularly a small, family owned funeral home. The quality tool, Six Sigma, is used to demonstrate how it can improve several business processes within the funeral homes' daily tasks. The paper explores how the small funeral home can greatly improve its efficiency in the embalming and preparation processes that can not only improve margins but ease the experience of the person responsible for arranging the affairs of the deceased.
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"Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma and other quality management systems owe most of their processes and underlying logic to the work of Dr. Deming who was the first researcher to promote the use of statistics as a management device. Dr. Deming was instrumental in facilitating Japan's rise to the top of the quality chain and his methods have influenced every quality management program in existence to one extent or another: "His teachings were encapsulated in his 14 points, his 7 deadly diseases and...his system of profound knowledge. Deming challenged us...to reconsider both our fundamental roles and our technical teachings..."(Hahn, 2002, paras.5-7)."
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Stroud-Lawrence Funeral Home, 2005.
A discussion on the mission statement of the Stroud-Lawrence Funeral Home.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper offers a mission statement for the Stroud-Lawrence Funeral Home, a family-owned business established in 1870. It explains that the company is dedicated to providing the highest quality in pre-need services, traditional funerals, cremations, burials and embalming and to doing so in a sensitive and caring manner. The paper mentions that the company serves the local area around Chagrin Falls, which is approximately 20 miles east of Cleveland, Ohio. This is the area's oldest funeral home and expresses its pride in carrying on the founder's commitment to serve families with compassionate, quality service in a sensitive human caring profession.
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"The Stroud-Lawrence Funeral Home was established in 1870 and remains a family-owned business. The company is dedicated to providing the highest quality in pre-need services, traditional funerals, cremations, burials, and embalming and to doing so in a sensitive and caring manner. The company serves the local area around Chagrin Falls, which is approximately 20 miles east of Cleveland, Ohio. This is the area's oldest funeral home and expresses its pride in carrying on the founder's commitment to serve families with compassionate, quality service in a sensitive human caring profession. The mission of the company is to provide this service to people in a time of need and to help alleviate the grief of the families. The company provides a wide variety of services aside from funerals, including insurance portfolios, caskets, rentals, monuments, removal services, notary services, trusts, vaults, limousine services, out of state services ..."
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Funeral Homes, 2005.
An analysis of ethics and diversity factors in funeral homes.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper evaluates Alderwoods' reexamination of their ethical standards, for too many of these ethical standards are being violated for the sake of profit maximization. This reexamination is significant, for as the second-largest operator of funeral homes and cemeteries in North America, actions Alderwoods takes influence the entire funeral home industry.
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"Each and every day of the year more than six-thousand Americans die. Some of them pass away at home or at work, some die in hospitals or nursing homes, and others are killed in accidents or die by violence. Despite differences in how, when, or where they die, nearly every one of them ultimately leaves this world through a funeral home. Subsequently, it is important for funeral homes to administer effective staffing practices and selection tools which reflect trends in ethics and diversity. In response to trends in diversity and ethics, Alderwoods is reexamining their ethical standards, for too many of these ethical standards are being violated for the sake of profit maximization."
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?I Felt a Funeral in My Brain?, 2005.
This paper discusses the construction of the poem by Emily Dickinson "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain".
1,530 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 50.95
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This paper explains that themes of death, altered states of consciousness and mental chaos are conveyed through traditional and sophisticated uses of poetic composition in Emily Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain". The author points out that the poet employs a plethora of poetic techniques such as alliteration, repetition, rhyme and rhythm to create mood and convey the central themes of emptiness and mental chaos. The paper relates that, just as sensory deprivation is a common tool used to create altered states of consciousness, so, too, is sensory overload; the speaker in "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" describes both sensory deprivation and sensory overload.
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"Alliteration and repetition provide the musical and rhythmic backbone of Dickinson's poem. Examples of alliteration include: "felt a funeral," "seated, / A service," "silence some strange," and "dropped down," (1; 6; 15; 17). In addition to alliteration, "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" also contains several examples of word repetition: "treading, treading," "beating, beating," "down, and down," (3; 7; 17). The rhythmic quality of both alliteration and repetition mirrors the motif of drums that the speaker refers to in the second stanza. Therefore, poetic devices perfectly reflect the theme. Musicality is also conveyed through careful word selections: the third stanza begins: "And then I heard them lift a box, / And creak across my soul /.../ Then space began to toll," (9-12). Key words invoking music and sound include "heard," "creak," and "toll." Aural imagery continues in the fourth stanza, which continues where the third left off with its allusion to a bell tolling."
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Prices in the Funeral Industry, 2005.
A brief examination of an article about the movement of prices in the funeral industry.
987 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper examines articles which addresses the issue of elasticity in the funeral industry. It points out that prices in the industry are becoming increasingly subject to competition and the living consumer's desires regarding elaborate or simple funerals, and thus demand can shift more wildly and widely than ever before, and is more subject to outside as well as inside industry forces.
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"One external factor of particular note for Richard Willing is that the traditional funeral industry is facing increased competition and new supplies from discount venues, and alternative venues. For example discount casket stores have increased the supplies of caskets overall, and of discount caskets in particular. Many of these casket stores are located on the Internet. This technological impact upon the ease of funeral consumer perusal allows for more responsive consumer demand to shifts in pricing, as consumers can be more informed upon pricing differentials, even during a time of grief, by simply surfing the web, rather than driving all over their area or calling up different funeral homes. On average, families have paid upwards of $2,176 for a casket. Now discounters estimate that they can halve the cost."
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Ethical Dilemma at Stroud-Lawrence Funeral Home, 2006.
This paper describes an ethical dilemma that occured within the confines of the Stroud-Lawrence Funeral Home and discusses how the dilemma was managed.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses an ethical dilemma at the Stroud-Lawrence Funeral Home, a small, family owned enterprise. A specific ethical dilemma that was faced by the author is recounted relevant to the parties involved and their positions of authority and power. The outcome is reported as being equitable although more could have been done to make ethical training and counseling mandatory.
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"The ethical dilemma occurred within the confines of Stroud-Lawrence Funeral Home. Stroud-Lawrence is a small family owned and operated enterprise with less than 10 employees. The ethical dilemma that recently arose dealt with insurance paybacks for certain funeral related services that were not fully performed by certain staff members. While not necessarily intentional, this oversight resulted in the billing for services performed that were not, in fact performed and the ethical issues arising from the fact that employees, myself as well as management, were aware of this oversight and yet, the process was overlooked. The Ethical Issue. The specific issue involved billing for funeral clothing on a deceased individual who was scheduled for cremation following the viewing."
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?Funeral Blues?, 2000.
An analysis of the concept of death in W. H. Auden?s poem, ?Funeral Blues?.
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 41.95
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In W. H. Auden?s poem, ?Funeral Blues,? the speaker uses well-constructed poetic language and form to convey her attitude toward the subject of death. It explains how Auden manifests an extremely bitter interpretation of hopelessness and eternal sadness on the part of the speaker as a result of losing a loved one. The speaker in the poem is deeply saddened about the loss of her loved one and the fact that it was a force beyond her control. This person has been taken from her life in haste at a most inopportune time, and she feels as though her life has become pointless. It shows how, through Auden?s use of tone, language, and structure, he portrays a very well-defined image of death and its effects on the individual, which is by no means desirable.
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In ?Funeral Blues? Auden makes the bitter attitude of the speaker toward the subject of death apparent to the readers through the use of symbols, imagery, personification, and the metaphor. In the first stanza Auden states, ?stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone...?(Auden 1362. 1). The clock being stopped may signify the fact that he who died has run out of time and also to ask those who knew him to stop what they are doing and reflect. The telephone being cut off brings forth the idea of silence. Auden does this to show the deceased the respect they deserve. She believes in honouring the dead with a moment of silence to pay respect. In the second stanza the speaker states, ?let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead.?(Auden 1362. 5). She uses this metaphoric image to convey the pointlessness of her life and also her grief. What point is there for aeroplanes to fly in circles? She is comparing the pointlessness of flying in circles to her life without her partner.
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Funeral Home Communications, 2007.
This paper discusses the importance of effective communications with regards to a family funeral home business.
791 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper relates that the lack of quality communication processes in business has the ability to adversely affect an organization. The paper discusses how communication is more complex than leaders often believe. The paper then looks at how the need for effective ommunications is relevant to a family-operated funeral business and makes the recommendation that the communication processes should be learned by all individuals that have a stake in the business operation.
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"The family funeral home business may consist of extensive communication tools that assist the organization in serving the public. Tools such as computers to access the Internet, telephone services, cell phone services, fax machines and print materials all aid the funeral home in completing the tasks included in operation that relate to communications. Other communications instruments may be required depending on the size of the organization, the services that are offered to the public and the speed at which the company guarantees their services. Because each type of service requires communication with different individuals or organizations, the tools needed to effectively communicate may vary from funeral home to funeral home."
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?Funeral Rites? by Seamus Heaney, 2002.
An analysis of the poem, ?Funeral Rites? by Seamus Heaney, illustrating the subject of the violence in Ireland.
761 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 27.95
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This paper reviews Seamus Heaney's poem, ?Funeral Rites?. The paper illustrates how this poem reflects Heaney's attempt to show the process required for the violence to end, while also challenging people to rethink their views on the violence. The central theme presented in this paper, is how the chaos of death and violence is understood and processed through the use of rituals. The paper also discusses the extensive use of imagery and symbolism in the poem.
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"The symbols in the poem are also important to the meaning. The most significant symbol is the funeral procession itself. This procession has two meanings. Firstly, it represents the ritual that allows the real meaning of the violent events to be overlooked. Secondly, it represents the process of coming to understand and deal with the reality of the events. In the poem, the funeral procession leads to the river of knowledge and then to the grave site where the mythical figure Gunnar is invoked. Gunnar is a Viking hero who sacrificed himself to end a long fight. The reference to the violence in Ireland is clear, with Gunnar a symbol of sacrifice. The funeral procession as a whole, represents the path that needs to be followed for Ireland to return to peace. Just as a funeral procession leads to the acceptance of an individual?s death, the funeral procession represents a process of coming to an understanding of the situation in Ireland and the way to overcome the violence and find the path to acceptance and forgiveness."
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Egyptian Funeral Rites, 2005.
A discussion of the myth of Osiris, Iris and their impact on Egyptian funeral rites.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 133.95
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This paper explains the importance of the myth of Osiris, and his wife, Isis, to developments in Egypt that distinguished the Nile civilization from other north African peoples, established ideas of the afterlife and funeral rituals towards it, while ushering in the day of Horus. The paper primarily makes reference to two of AWF Budge's works in Egyptology.
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"The Myth of Osiris, Isis, and the Importance of Egyptian Funeral Rites. Introduction to Osiris The myth of Osiris is really a myth of Isis, too. Osiris seems to have been the most popular of Egyptian deities, associated with joy and sorrow and the vagaries of nature, and especially, of corn, for reasons soon explained. His immense appeal led to numerous attributions and powers, as borrowed from other Egyptian gods, so that debate continues as to what really belongs to the myth of Osiris, and what has been adapted from elsewhere."
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