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particulars in the interment register, memorialization of the dead has been a
maintaining all legal files); opening and key component of almost every culture.
closing the grave (locating the grave and Psychologists say that remembrance
laying out the boundaries, excavating and practices, from the funeral or memorial
filling the interment space); installation service to permanent memorialization,
and removal of the lowering device; serve an important emotional function for
placement and removal of artificial grass survivors by helping them bring closure
dressing and coco-matting at the grave and allowing the healing process to begin.
site, leveling, tamping, re-grading and Providing a permanent resting place for
sodding the grave site and leveling and the deceased is a dignified treatment
re-sodding the grave if the earth settles. for a loved one’s mortal remains, which
fulfills the natural human desire for
Can we dig our own grave to avoid the memorialization.
charge for opening and closing?
The actual opening and closing of the What happens when a cemetery runs
grave is just one component of the opening out of land?
and closing fee. Due to safety issues When a cemetery runs out of land,
which arise around the use of machinery it will continue to operate and serve
on cemetery property and the protection the community. Most cemeteries
of other gravesites, the actual opening have crematoriums, and some historic
and closing of the grave is conducted by cemeteries even offer guided tours.
cemetery grounds personnel only.
In a hundred years will this cemetery
Why is having a place to visit so still be there?
important? We think of cemetery lands as being
To remember and to be remembered in perpetuity. There are cemeteries
are natural human needs. A permanent throughout the world that have been in
memorial in a cemetery provides a focal existence for hundreds of years.
point for remembrance and memorializing
the deceased. Throughout human history,
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