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Burial Services
Traditionally, a funeral service involves above the ground. There are countless
a visitation, followed by a funeral types of designs for headstones,
service in a church, or at the funeral ranging from very simple to large
home. The casket is typically present and complex. In NL, cemeteries are
at both these events. Decisions need privately owned by the church.
to be made on whether the body
needs to be embalmed, what kind of Columbarium:
casket to use, what cemetery to use A columbarium is a structure that holds
and whether or not to purchase a cremated remains. Columbariums can
monument for the grave. hold a single or multiple sets of remains
in individual compartments called
Monumental Cemetery (Traditional): niches. They sit on top of the ground
A monumental cemetery is the similar to a traditional monument.
traditional style of cemetery where
headstones or other monuments made
of marble or granite rise vertically
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