cemeterian

A person who works in, owns or operates a cemetery or memorial park. Not the same as a sexton who was considered the "caretaker".

Forest Lawn was founded in 1906 as a not-for-profit cemetery by a group of businessmen from San Francisco. Dr. Hubert Eaton and C. B. Sims, cemeterians, entered into a sales contract with the cemetery in 1912. Eaton took over the management of the cemetery in 1917 and is credited as being the "Founder" of Forest Lawn for his innovations of establishing the "memorial park plan" (eliminating upright grave markers) and being the first to open a funeral home on dedicated cemetery grounds.

cemeterian by Vinny 2052 October 2, 2011

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Cemeterian

Slang for elderly; implying a person is close to death due to age. A person said to have one foot in the grave. A person having so much gray hair they look partially cremated.

Her: I don't think he is THAT old. He is a Baby Boomer, though.

Him: For fuck's sake, he is a cemeterian. AARP called him last week saying, "Enough already! Move on! Go to the fucking light!"

Cemeterian by abrupt1 May 11, 2014

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Cafeterian

Cafeterian is a slang term (coined by interweb's Pile) that refers to a theist who claims to be part of a particular religious affiliation (such as a "Christian"), who picks and chooses select aspects of scripture and dogma to follow, while ignoring contradictory or other scriptures, rules and dogma. They basically select what they want to believe in, not unlike one would visit a cafeteria and select specific plates of food, while ignoring everything else.

Convenient bastid! This Cafeterian has condensed the entire nature and history of Christianity into a simple marketable sentence. It's up to us to trust that this guy somehow has figured the whole of Christianity out. Sure.

Cafeterian by polisanimos August 6, 2011