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in an urn space. requested by the person who died.
Cremation is also a less expensive
What are burial vaults and grave option in comparison to a burial. The
liners? remains are placed in a container that
These are the outside containers is combustible and placed in a special
into which the casket is placed. furnace called a cremation chamber
Burial vaults are designed to protect or a crematory where, through intense
the casket and may be made of a heat, the remains are reduced where
variety or combination of materials through intense heat is reduced to
including concrete, stainless steel, bone fragments that are then crushed
galvanized steel, copper, bronze, and pulverized to resemble coarse
plastic or fiberglass. A grave liner is sand. The cremated remains of an
a lightweight version of a vault which average human body will weigh about
simply keeps the grave surface from 7-8 pounds. Cremation is not an
sinking in. alternative to a funeral, but rather an
alternative to burial or other forms of
Must I purchase a burial vault? disposition.
Most large, active cemeteries have
regulations that require the use of Cremated remains can be scattered
a basic grave liner for maintenance or buried, or they may be kept with
and safety purposes. Either a grave the family in a decorative urn. There
liner or a burial vault will satisfy these are many new and different ways to
requirements. Some smaller rural or dispose of ashes today, cremated
churchyard cemeteries do not require remains can be placed in an artificial
use of a container to surround the coral reef in the ocean or they can be
casket in the grave. spun into glass artwork or diamonds.
Some religions welcome cremation
Cremation Services while others forbid it. The Catholic
Cremation is an alternative to the Church had banned cremation up until
burial process and it is chosen by 1963, and burial remains the preferred
many people because of religious form of disposition today. In other
beliefs, the desire to preserve the Christian denominations cremation
environment or because it was
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