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Written by DeadGirl   
Monday, 30 January 2006
By Jonathan Munson

Jan. 26, 2006

Room 025D, a new classroom on the basement level of Nail Technical Center, displays portions of caskets and burial vaults, urns and flag cases for military funerals. Mortuary science Chair Mary Allen-Martin hopes to receive a “casket-kiosk,” a computer monitor sitting atop a decorative pillar that displays merchandise information to customers. The idea is for students to learn about products necessary to run a funeral home.

The objects in the display were donated by the Batesville Casket Co., Wilbert Vaults and Porter Loring Mortuaries.

Because many students have not received hands-on experience with funeral merchandise, the wall display familiarizes students with materials used in caskets.

“A funeral home is required to have five full-sized caskets, and then they can have as many partials as they want,” Allen-Martin said Jan. 19 in an interview.

Having partial-caskets helps to save space when showing families materials and colors available to them.

A casket can cost anywhere from $395 to $30,000 or more, depending on the materials.

An average funeral costs about $5,000 to $7,000, and would most likely have a $3,000 or $4,000 casket, which is very nice, Allen-Martin said.

A casket can be made of a metal such as bronze or copper, or a wood such as mahogany, usually imported from South America or Africa, that can cost up to $15,000.

The interior of a casket could have an expensive velvet lining, or an affordable crepe. There are even caskets with valuable silver inlays.

The mortuary science department has about 300 students, and eight courses are taught in Room 025D, including classes taught on weekends.

This is the first semester the department has this classroom, and it still isn’t enough room, she said.

The mortuary science department teaches 13 courses in a single classroom designated for their use. They have one lab used to teach anatomy classes and now they share Room 025D with the allied health department.

If the department had more faculty and more facilities then enrollment could possibly double, said Allen-Martin.

With Internet courses, there could be several more course sections available to students, Allen-Martin said.

The mortuary science department has four full-time instructors and five part-time. It would be ideal if they had about seven more full-time adjuncts, said Professor Mary Mena.

The basement level of Nail used to be a large, three-part seminar room with sliding-panel walls forming makeshift classrooms.

Now the space houses classrooms for computer information systems students and the American Sign Language interpreter training department.

The $161,623.80 contract for the remodeling of Nail’s basement was awarded to RST Construction in the fall.

Aside from the telephone lines and some classroom projectors, the remodeling was completed in time for the start of this semester, Allen-Martin said.

While the basement additions in Nail do not completely solve the problem of space constraints for the mortuary science department, it is a “definite step in the right direction,” she said.

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From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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