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FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS

Memorial or Tribute • What music should be played?
Service • What readings would you like to have?
• Is there a special poem you’d like shared
At a memorial or tribute service, a casket or urn with guests?
is usually not present. Otherwise similar to a • Are there any special photographs or
funeral or visitation, a memorial service gives other memorabilia you would like to be
family and friends a time to come together in displayed?
your memory and celebrate your life. • Should the decor reflect a particular
hobby or interest of yours, such as fish-
ing, gardening or music?
Graveside Service • Is there a particular emblem or engraving

you want on your headstone or marker?
As its name implies, a graveside service may be • Should there be refreshments served or a
held at the grave site just prior to burial of a more elaborate party held after the
casket or urn, and usually consists of final service?
remarks, prayers or memories. The service may
occur after or in place of a funeral service.
Cemetery Property
There’s no one right way to plan a funeral
service, we believe that each funeral should be In addition to funeral services and the choice of
as unique and memorable as the life it honors. burial or cremation, cemetery property, or
“interment rights,” is another consideration
When planning your own funeral service in when you’re making final arrangements, either • Private Family Mausoleum: a small • The ceremony accompanying the place
advance, think about the way you want to be for yourself in advance or for a loved on. structure that provides above-ground ment of an urn in a cremation niche or
remembered. Perhaps you’d like a traditional entombment of, on average, two to cremation garden in a cemetery provides
funeral aligned with certain religious or ethnic A common misconception that people have twelve decedents. family and friends with closure after the
customs. Or, a celebration focusing on great when they purchase the right of interment in a • Companion Crypt: permits two inter loss of a loved one.
memories made with family and friends may be cemetery is that they have purchased the land ments or entombments side-by-side. • When ashes of a loved one are kept with
your preference. Maybe it’s a combination of itself, when in fact what they have really • Private Family Estate: a small section of relatives, they can easily become mis
both. You can have one service, or several, to purchased is the right to be interred (also a cemetery, usually bordered by gates, placed or discarded through the years, as
honor your life. referred to as buried, entombed, enniched or shrubbery or other dividers, that allows future generations may not feel a connec
placed) on or in that particular piece of proper- for ground burial of several members of tion to the deceased.
Regardless of the service or services you ty. the same family. • A permanent placement provides future
choose to include in your funeral plan, you can generations with a location to visit when
personalize them in almost any way imagina- Burial researching heritage.
ble. For example, just consider the following Cremation
questions: Most people are familiar with the concept of Some common methods of final disposition of
burial, or “interment,” but may not be aware of Many people overlook the importance of ceme- cremated remains are:
• Where should your funeral be held? At the variety of options that are often available. tery property for those who choose cremation,
your place of worship? At the funeral Many cemeteriesoffer one or more of the but permanent placement, or “final disposi- • Cremation Niche: an above ground space
home? following: tion”, of the ashes or “cremated remains” is an to accomodate a cremation urn.
• Who should officiate the service? important part of final arrangements. Just con- • Columbarium: Often located within a
• Will your service adhere to the traditions • Ground Burial: burial of the casket below sider: mausoleum or chapel and constructed of
of your faith or culture? ground. A “vault” or “outer burial con- numerous niches designed to hold urns.
• Do you want a eulogy, and who should tainer” is required at many cemeteries. • A permanent site gives loved ones a • Cremation Garden: a dedicated section of
deliver it? • Mausoleum, or Community Mausoleum: physical place for visitation and reflec- a cemetery designed for the burial, scat
• Would you like an open or closed casket? a large building that provides above tion. tering or other permanent placement of
ground entombments. ashes.

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