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• Scheduling the location, date and Lawn cemetery: A lawn cemetery is
time of the visitation and funeral where each grave is marked with a
service small commemorative plaque that is
• Selecting burial or cremation placed horizontally at the head of the
• Choosing funeral products grave at ground-level. Families can
• Arranging a cemetery plot still be involved in the design and the
• Preparing an obituary notice information contained on the plaque, in
• Scheduling transportation most cases, however, the plaques are a
arrangements standard design.
A funeral director will guide you through Mausoleum: A mausoleum is an external
all these steps, using your wants, needs free-standing building constructed as
and desires as a foundation to create a a monument enclosing the interment
memorable funeral for your loved one. space or burial chamber of a deceased
From here the funeral services can be person or people. A mausoleum may
personalized. Did your loved one have be considered a type of tomb or the
a favorite sports team? What was their tomb may be considered to be within
favorite type of music? What activity was the mausoleum. The most famous
your loved one known best for? Recalling mausoleum is the Taj Mahal in India.
fond memories assists with the grieving
process and will help honor the life of Columbarium: Columbarium walls
your loved one. are generally reserved for cremated
remains. While cremated remains can
Burial Services be kept at home by families or scattered
somewhere significant to the deceased, a
columbarium provides friends and family
Traditionally, a burial service involves a a place to come to mourn and visit.
visitation, followed by a funeral service in Columbarium walls do not take up a lot
a church, or other place of worship. The of space and it is a cheaper alternative to
casket is typically present at both these a burial plot.
events, and it is your decision on whether
to have the casket open or not. You have Natural cemeteries: Natural cemeteries,
the option of having the remains interred also known as eco-cemeteries or green
(earth burial), or it may be entombed in a cemeteries are a new style of cemetery
crypt inside a mausoleum (above ground set aside for natural burials. Natural
burial). Family or religious traditions burials are motivated by the desire to be
are often a factor for choosing burial. environmentally aware, although natural
Decisions need to be made on whether burials can be performed at any type
the body needs to be embalmed, what of cemetery, they are usually done in a
kind of casket to use, what cemetery to natural woodland area. Conventional
use and what to put on the gravestone. markings such as headstones are
generally replaced with a tree or a bush
Cemetery types or a placement of a natural rock.
Monumental cemetery: A monumental
cemetery is the traditional style of Burial FAQs
cemetery where headstones or other
monuments made of marble or granite
rise vertically above the ground. There What is opening and closing and why is
are countless different types of designs it so expensive?
for headstones, ranging from very simple Opening and closing fees can include
to large and complex. up to and beyond 50 separate services
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