- 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 Outer
Container
- 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.
- 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.
Courtesy of the
California Department of Consumer Affairs, Cemetery and Funeral Bureau
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