By Hal Stevens
With cremation, you will, in fact, have added choices for a final resting place than with a classic earth burial. With interment, you can choose burial in the family plot, church garden, or other memorial site. You can also choose a columbarium, which is an arrangement of niches, indoor or outdoor, with memorial character plaques. This is also sometimes referred to as an urn garden.
A memorial service is a service given for the deceased without the body present. A memorial is usually held after a burial, donation of the body to an institution, cremation (sometimes the cremains are present), entombment in a mausoleum or crypt, or a burial at sea. Sometimes such a service can be held at the funeral home and may include prayers, poems, or songs to remember the deceased. Very often, photographs of the decedent are displayed.
A memorial service doesn't have to be a formal or expensive event. Gathering friends and family at home to watch your loved one's favorite film or television program could serve as an opportunity to reminisce about the life of someone special to you.
You can choose to have memorial prayers and religious rites performed at the graveside with cremation, just as you can with a traditional in-ground burial. You can also choose to have a marker or monument as a permanent testimony to the life and the history of the deceased, and as a place of pilgrimage for loved ones to visit.
One popular scattering option is over water or in some other site loved by the deceased. You'll need to be certain of the laws and regulations in the area before scattering. Your cremation director or funeral director will be able to provide you with information about this.
We would like to remind you that laws concerning ash scattering differ in each state. If state law permits it, or cremains may be scattered in lieu of preserving them in a columbarium, burying them in a grave, or keeping them at home. Some cremation societies offer scattering services to their members.
Because it's expedient and inexpensive, the scattering of cremated remains is beginning to appeal to those people who are always on the "go," to those who may have young families, or those who move around a lot.
Something to keep in mind is the fact that, the remains of a cremated body are not "ashes" as the term is commonly referred. The remains are calcium deposits that do not immediately dissolve when scattered. They normally cannot be disbursed and blown away when scattered; so be mindful of that.
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Hal is the author of several critically acclaimed eBooks specifically written to help people deal with end of life issues. His eBooks include topics such as: cremation, writing and delivering a eulogy, eco-friendly green funerals, funeral planning, organ donation, and buying and selling cemetery plots. To find out more about his CemeterySpot family of free services and resources, to learn more about his books, and to get a free gift, please visit: http://www.cemeteryspot.com.
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