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hobby or interest of yours, such as allows for ground burial of several
fishing, gardening or music? members of the same family.
• Is there a particular emblem or
engraving you want on your headstone Cremation
or marker?
• Should there be refreshments served or Many people overlook the importance
a more elaborate party held after the of cemetery property for those who
service? choose cremation, but permanent
placement, or “final disposition,” of
the ashes or “cremated remains” is an
Cemetery Property important part of final arrangements.
In addition to funeral services and the Just consider:
choice of burial or cremation, cemetery
property, or “interment rights,” is another • A permanent site gives loved ones
consideration when you’re making final a physical place for visitation and
arrangements, either for yourself in reflection.
advance, or for a loved one. • The ceremony accompanying the
placement of an urn in a cremation
A common misconception that people niche or a cremation garden in
often have when they purchase the right a cemetery provides family and
of interment in a cemetery is that they friends with closure after the loss
have purchased the land itself, when in of a loved one.
fact what they have really purchased is • When ashes of a loved one are
the right to be interred (also referred to kept with relatives, they can
as buried, entombed, enniched or placed) easily become misplaced or
on or in that particular piece of property. discarded through the years, as
future generations may not feel a
connection to the deceased.
Burial • A permanent placement provides
Most people are familiar with the concept future generations with a location
of burial, or “interment,” but may not be to visit when researching heritage.
aware of the variety of options that are
often available. Many cemeteries offer Some common methods of final
one or more of the following: disposition of cremated remains are:
• Ground Burial: burial of the casket • Cremation Niche: an above-
below ground. A “vault” or “outer ground space to accommodate a
burial container” is required at many cremation urn.
cemeteries. • Columbarium: Often located
• Mausoleum, or Community Mausoleum: within a mausoleum or chapel and
a large building that provides above- constructed of numerous niches
ground entombments. designed to hold urns.
• Private Family Mausoleum: a small • Cremation Garden: a dedicated
structure that provides above-ground section of a cemetery designed
entombment of, on average, two to for the burial, scattering or other
twelve decedents. permanent placement of ashes.
• Companion Crypt: permits two • Memorial Benches: benches
interments or entombments side-by- that either simply memorialize a
side. loved one scattered or buried in
• Private Family Estate: a small section of a cremation garden, or actually
a cemetery, usually bordered by gates, contain the remains within.
shrubbery, or other dividers, that
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