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BURIAL FAQS
What is opening and closing and Why is having a place to visit so
why is it so expensive? important?
Opening and closing fees can include To remember and to be
up to and beyond 50 separate remembered are natural human
services provided by the cemetery. needs. A permanent memorial in a
Typically, the opening and closing fee cemetery provides a focal point for
include administration and permanent remembrance and memorializing the
record keeping; opening and closing deceased. Throughout human history,
the grave; installation and removal of memorialization of the dead has been
the lowering device; placement and a key component of almost every
removal of artificial grass dressing culture. Remembrance practices
and remove at the grave site, leveling, serve an important emotional function
tamping, re-grading and sodding the for survivors by helping them bring
grave site and leveling and re-sodding closure and allowing the healing
the grave when the earth settles. process to begin.
Can we dig our own grave to What happens when a cemetery
avoid the charge for opening and runs out of land?
closing? When a cemetery runs out of land,
The actual opening and closing of the it will continue to operate and serve
grave is just one component of the the community. Most cemeteries
opening and closing fee. Due to safety have crematoriums, some historic
issues which arise around the use of cemeteries even offer guided tours.
machinery on cemetery property and
the protection of other grave sites, What options are available besides
the actual opening and closing of ground burial?
the grave is conducted by cemetery Besides ground burial, some
grounds personnel only. cemeteries offer interment in lawn
crypts or entombment in mausoleums.
In a hundred years will this In addition, most cemeteries provide
cemetery still be there? choices for those who have selected
We think of cemetery lands as being cremation. These often include
in perpetuity. There are cemeteries placement of cremated remains.
throughout the world that have been
in existence for hundreds of years.
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