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Memorial or Tribute • What music should be played?
Service • What readings would you like to
have?
At a memorial or tribute service, a casket • Is there a special poem you’d like
or urn is usually not present. Otherwise shared with the guests?
similar to a funeral or visitation, a • Are there any special photographs
memorial service gives family and friends or other memorabilia you would like
a time to come together in your memory displayed?
and celebrate your life. • Should the décor reflect a particular
hobby or interest of yours, such as
fishing, gardening or music?
Graveside Service • Is there a particular emblem
As its name implies, a graveside service or engraving you want on your
may be held at the grave site just prior headstone or marker?
to burial of a casket or urn, and usually • Should there be refreshments served
consists of final remarks, prayers or or a more elaborate party held after
memories. The service may occur after the service?
or in place of a funeral service.
Cemetery Property
There’s no one, right way to plan a funeral
service, we believe that each funeral In addition to funeral services and the
should be as unique and memorable as choice of burial or cremation, cemetery
the life it honors. property, or “interment rights,” is another
consideration when you’re making final
When planning your own funeral service arrangements, either for yourself in
in advance, think about the way you advance, or for a loved one.
want to be remembered. Perhaps you’d
like a traditional funeral aligned with A common misconception that people
certain religious or ethnic customs. Or, a often have when they purchase the right
celebration focusing on great memories of interment in a cemetery is that they
made with family and friends may be your have purchased the land itself, when in
preference. Maybe it’s a combination fact what they have really purchased is
of both. You can have one service, or the right to be interred (also referred
several, to honor your life. to as buried, entombed, enniched or
placed) on or in that particular piece of
Regardless of the service or services you property.
choose to include in your funeral plan,
you can personalize them in almost Burial
any way imaginable. For example, just
consider the following questions: Most people are familiar with the concept
of burial, or “interment,” but may not be
• Where should the funeral be held? At aware of the variety of options that are
your place of worship? At the funeral often available. Many cemeteries offer
home? one or more of the following:
• Who should officiate the service?
• Will your service adhere to the • Ground Burial: burial of the casket
traditions of your faith or culture? below ground. A “vault” or “outer
• Do you want a eulogy, and who burial container” is required at many
should deliver it? cemeteries.
• Would you like an open or closed • Mausoleum, or Community
casket? Mausoleum: a large building
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