Cremation Options

Cremation and burial offer the same funeral service options such as music, prayers and recitations

of your choice.

If you choose cremation, you still have all the options available to you for visitation and viewing with

an open or closed casket, gatherings, funeral or memorialization service, even reception for family

and friends. As a funeral home who specializes in cremation and owns and operates our crematory,

we can personally attend to all the arrangements for you.

The cremation process uses intense heat to reduce human remains to their original elements.

The deceased is delivered to the crematory in a casket or cremation container, and then is cremated.

The cremated remains are placed in a second container, typically an urn, for final disposition.

Cremation allows you to arrange any type of ceremony that is meaningful to you, with cremation

before or after the ceremony.

Many people select a traditional visitation and funeral service, with cremation to follow. Or you can select

a cremation followed by a memorial service. This service is a gathering, which differs from a funeral only

in that the body is not present. The cremated remains may or may not be present in an urn.

You may select cremation only. This entails simply meeting with us to arrange the details. However, we

hope you will consider the benefits of having a formal or informal funeral service. This is for the support

it can bring to friends and family, as well as the closure it helps to provide.

Regardless of your choice of services, or even if you choose not to have a viewing, you will need to

select a cremation container and urn. Urn selection today is very broad, offering you the opportunity

to choose one that reflects your personal tastes. For the non-traditionalist, there are even urns that depict hobbies like golfing or fishing. For an extra touch, many urns can be engraved with meaningful themes or phrases, scripture or the name of the person who has died.

Cremation also provides you with several choices for final disposition, including above ground inurnment, burial, permanent possession and scattering.

Above ground inurnment, such as in a columbarium niche, provides family and friends with a permanent place to visit. Burial also provides such a place, and also allows family members to be laid to rest next to each other, even if another family member has not chosen cremation.

Finally, you may also select some form of memorialization, such as a plaque or monument. Memorialization not only comforts immediate survivors, it becomes an important part of your family legacy for generations to come.

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