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22-514: Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary is a cemetery and mortuary located in the Westwood area of Los Angeles . It is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in Westwood, with an entrance from Glendon Avenue. The cemetery was established as Sunset Cemetery in 1905, but had been used for burials since the 1880s. In 1926, the name was officially changed to Westwood Memorial Park and

44-399: A coffin strapped into an arbitrary or a combination unit (mac pac / airtray). This is common when it is to be buried in a different locality than where the person died. When a body is brought to a funeral home, it is sometimes embalmed to delay decomposition or to make the viewing of the body more pleasant. The procedure typically involves removing sufficient blood material to accommodate

66-535: A particularly large jury verdict in Mississippi , which was later found to be in error, as the allegations against Loewen Group proved false. The Canadian -based company then brought suit against the United States alleging violations under NAFTA . Houston based Service Corporation International has also had its share of legal troubles in its operations of both funeral homes and cemeteries. In 2009,

88-488: A slower rate than at room temperature. Bodies are kept at between −10 °C (14 °F) and −50 °C (−58 °F). Usually used at forensic institutes, particularly when a body has not been identified. At these temperatures the body is completely frozen , and decomposition is significantly reduced, but not prevented. In some countries, the body of the deceased is embalmed before disposal, which makes refrigeration unnecessary. In many countries,

110-456: A viewing (sometimes referred to as a visitation), a funeral service in a place of worship or the funeral home chapel and a graveside committal service. Direct cremation consists of the funeral home receiving the body, preparing it for the crematory and filing the necessary legal paperwork. Direct/immediate burial is the forgoing of a funeral ceremony for a prompt, simple burial. Moving a body between mortuaries involves preparing it for shipment in

132-413: Is a business that provides burial and cremation services for the dead and their families. These services may include a prepared visitation and funeral , and the provision of a chapel for the funeral. Funeral homes arrange services in accordance with the wishes of surviving friends and family, whether immediate next of kin or an executor so named in a legal will. The funeral home often takes care of

154-608: Is most convenient considering the supplies and equipment on hand. In contrast, modern affluent jurisdictions will usually make every effort to requisition equipment and/or facilities not normally used to store corpses to act as temporary morgues whenever necessary. In theory, any refrigerated space spacious enough to fit a person can act as a temporary morgue in such a situation. In practice, government emergency preparedness procedures usually designate suitable public facilities such as ice rinks to act as morgues if available. Alternatively, refrigerator trucks are sometimes used as morgues,

176-619: Is not possible, or the family wishes, the funeral home can perform a "closed casket" service. The funeral home often sets aside one or more large areas for people to gather at a visitation. This area may contain a space to display the body in a casket to visitors who may pay their respects. Funeral and memorial services may also take place at the funeral home. Many funeral homes offer prearrangement options for those who wish to plan their own funerals. Several large multi-national corporations in this service field have received exposure from high-profile litigation. The Loewen Group , Inc., received

198-579: Is predominantly used in North American English , while Mortuary is used in the U.K. , although both terms are used interchangeably. The euphemisms “Rose Cottage” and “Rainbow’s End” are sometimes used in British hospitals to enable discussion in front of patients and visitors, the latter mainly for children. An auxiliary person responsible for the care of the deceased is known as a mortuary assistant or diener . A person qualified in

220-534: The advantage being that they are usually readily available and can easily be transported to where they are needed, thus sparing the burden of otherwise having to quickly transport large numbers of corpses over great distances. While temporary morgues are usually set up for isolated local incidents, the COVID-19 pandemic , has resulted in numerous temporary morgues being set up across the planet. Funeral home A funeral home , funeral parlor or mortuary

242-515: The earlier English term "deadhouse". The term morgue comes from the French . First used to describe the inner wicket of a prison , where new prisoners were kept so that jailers and turnkeys could recognize them in the future, it took on its modern meaning in fifteenth-century Paris , being used to describe part of the Châtelet used for the storage and identification of unknown corpses. Morgue

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264-405: The early 14th century, from Anglo-French mortuarie , meaning "gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner," from Medieval Latin mortuarium, noun use of neuter of Late Latin adjective mortuarius "pertaining to the dead," from Latin mortuus , pp. of mori "to die" (see mortal (adj.)). The meaning of "place where the deceased are kept temporarily" was first recorded in 1865, as a euphemism for

286-515: The evisceration and reconstruction of the deceased is called an Anatomical Pathology Technician in the UK, also called a mortician or autopsy technician in the USA. There are two types of mortuary cold chambers: Bodies are kept between 2 °C (36 °F) and 4 °C (39 °F). While this is usually used for keeping bodies for up to several weeks, it does not prevent decomposition, which continues at

308-624: The family can honor their customs without entering the morgue. Oversized mortuary fridge spaces have been installed in British hospitals to cope with the increase in obesity. In the UK the NHS has asked health trusts to review mortuary access security and procedures in the wake of the David Fuller case in November 2021. A waiting mortuary is a mortuary building designed specifically for

330-426: The family of the deceased must make the burial within 72 hours (three days) of death, but in some other countries it is usual that burial takes place some weeks or months after the death. This is why some corpses are kept as long as one or two years at a hospital or in a funeral home . When the family has enough money to organize the ceremony, the corpse is taken from the cold chamber for burial. In some funeral homes,

352-407: The morgue is in the same room, or directly adjacent to, the specially designed ovens, known as retorts , that are used in funerary cremation . Some religions dictate that, should a body be cremated, the family must witness its incineration. To honor these religious rites, many funeral homes install a viewing window, which allows the family to watch as the body is inserted into the retort. In this way,

374-635: The necessary paperwork, permits, and other details, such as making arrangements with the cemetery , and providing obituaries to the news media. The funeral business has a history that dates to the age of the Egyptians who mastered the science of preservation. In recent years many funeral homes have started posting obituaries online and use materials submitted by families to create memorial websites. There are certain common types of services in North America . A traditional funeral service consists of

396-407: The preservative chemicals and dyes, aspirating the internal organs and setting the facial features. Cosmetics are used with the consent of the family to improve the appearance of face and hands for a more natural look. If the face or hands are disfigured by accident, illness or decomposition, the embalmer may utilize restorative techniques to make them presentable for an "open casket" service. If this

418-489: The purpose of confirming that deceased persons are truly deceased. Prior to the advent of modern methods of verifying death, people feared that they would be buried alive. To alleviate such fears, the recently deceased were housed for a time in waiting mortuaries, where attendants would watch for signs of life. The corpses would be allowed to decompose partially prior to burial. Waiting mortuaries were most popular in 19th-century Germany, and were often large, ornate halls. A bell

440-454: The usual number of fatalities from all causes expected to occur there over time. Prior to modern times and even sometimes today especially in poorer jurisdictions, in case of any incident causing many deaths in such a short period of time so as to overwhelm a locale's regular mortuary services the bodies would usually be disposed of as quickly as possible, and (often not withstanding the locale's usual customs) will be disposed of by whatever method

462-687: Was later renamed to Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary. Though not exclusive to public figures , the cemetery has become the final resting place of many Hollywood actors and those in the entertainment industry . Prominent interred figures include Marilyn Monroe , Burt Lancaster , Truman Capote , Buddy Rich , Hugh Hefner , Natalie Wood , Dean Martin , Ray Bradbury , Roy Orbison , Ryan O'Neal , Farrah Fawcett , George C. Scott , Don Knotts , Jack Lemmon , Tim Conway , Walter Matthau , Billy Wilder , Hayedeh , Mahasti , Frank Zappa , Kirk Douglas , and Gena Rowlands . Morgue The term mortuary dates from

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484-417: Was strung to the corpses to alert attendants of any motion. Although there is no documented case of a person being saved from accidental burial in this way, it is sometimes erroneously believed that this was the origin of the phrase "saved by the bell", whilst in fact, the phrase originates from the sport of boxing . In practice, local jurisdictions only support sufficient permanent morgue capacity to handle

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