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BURIAL SERVICES

Traditionally, a burial service involves a Cemetery types
visitation, followed by a funeral service Monumental cemetery: A monumental
in a church, or other place of worship. cemetery is the traditional style of
The casket is typically present at both cemetery where headstones or other
these events, and it is your decision monuments made of marble or granite
on whether to have the casket open rise vertically above the ground.
or not. You have the option of having There are countless different types of
the remains interred (earth burial), or designs for headstones, ranging from
it may be entombed in a crypt inside very simple to large and complex.
a mausoleum (above ground burial).
Family or religious traditions are often Lawn cemetery: A lawn cemetery is
a factor for choosing burial. Decisions where each grave is marked with a
need to be made on whether the body small commemorative plaque that is
needs to be embalmed, what kind of placed horizontally at the head of the
casket to use, what cemetery to use grave at ground-level. Families can
and what to put on the gravestone. still be involved in the design and the

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