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BURIAL SERVICES
Traditionally, a burial service burials. Natural burials are motivated
involves a reposal, followed by by the desire to be environmentally
a funeral service in a church, or conscience, although natural burials
other place of worship. The coffin is can be performed at any type of
usually present at both these times, cemetery, they are usually done in a
and it is your decision on whether natural woodland area. Conventional
to have the coffin open. Family or markings such as headstones are
religious traditions are often a factor generally replaced with a tree or a
for choosing burial. A decision will placement of a natural rock.
need to be made with regard to the
place of burial. Columbarium Walls – are generally
reserved for cremated remains.
Cemetery types While cremated remains can
Monumental cemetery: A be kept at home by families or
monumental cemetery is the scattered somewhere significant
traditional style of cemetery where to the deceased, a columbarium
headstones or other monuments provides family and friends
made of marble or granite rise somewhere to come to mourn the
vertically above the ground. There deceased. In Ireland, columbarium
are countless different types of walls are generally located beside
designs for headstones, ranging crematoria.
from very simple to large and
complex.
Natural cemeteries: also known
as eco-cemeteries or green
cemeteries: These are a new style
of cemetery set aside for natural
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