When the cremation services are over, you can choose to place the urn in your home, scatter the remains in a meaningful place, or place them in a columbarium. Burying the cremation remains, sometimes called ashes, in a cemetery or another location is also a common practice. The short answer is, yes, you can bury the urn. However, this [...]
Contrary to what most people think, cremation is not a modern invention. Since ancient times, people have been using direct cremation as the final disposition method. This decision, however, is usually based on religion. Your faith is a huge determining variable when you are considering between cremation or burial services for yourself or your loved [...]
When your loved one passes away, the last thing you want to think of is what happens to the body. Unfortunately, you will have to make some very tough choices amidst your cloud of grief, especially if there is no last will and testament. It is easy to visualize what happens in traditional burial services [...]
More people are choosing cremation over burial for so many reasons. In the early years, cremation wasn’t familiar to some, and others started making superstitious belief about it making burial as the number one disposition method. If we compare it through statistics today, more than 50% are getting cremated, and maybe around 95% knows about [...]
Being environmentally friendly is no longer only a way of life, it’s also a way of after-life. More and more Americans have been embracing the option of cremation over traditional burials. In a 2008 survey conducted by funeral industry publishers Kates-Boylston Publications, 43 percent of respondents said that they would consider a green burial. Only a [...]
