CREMATION
What To Do With Cremated Remains
Interment of ashes involves the burial of cremated remains in the ground or placement in a dedicated building called a columbarium. This option is particularly suitable for individuals who prefer not to have their ashes scattered or displayed at home.
Some religious beliefs also advocate for the interment of ashes. For instance, Catholicism prohibits the scattering, keeping at home, or alteration of ashes, making interment the only permissible choice according to their faith.
Interment of ashes is a popular choice for families who have already filled their desired urns, as it allows them to distribute their loved one's ashes to a different location.
With traditional burial, a loved one is buried in the ground or entombed in a mausoleum, but cremation offers families many additional options.
Among the many choices is keeping your loved one's ashes at home in an urn or other container. You can also create a cemetery memorial, which might be in the form of a niche, a columbarium, a scattering garden, a bench or another type of property.
Many people ask their families ahead of time that their ashes be scattered at a personally meaningful place, such as in the ocean or a forest. Innovative ideas include sending ashes into space, memorializing them in an underwater reef, adding them to fireworks, or having them transformed into a diamond or pressed into a vinyl record. Eco-friendly ideas include biodegradable urns that grow into trees or dissolve at sea.
There are cremation keepsake ideas, such as jewelry, stones or works of art, with any of these choices.
A permanent place to remember
Choosing a final resting place is an important step in creating a family legacy paying tribute to a special life. Cemetery memorialization ensures that future generations have a place to reflect on the life of someone they loved or learn about the life of someone they never met. It also eliminates the possibility that a loved one's ashes may be misplaced at some point (it happens).
Cremation and Burial Gardens
Let our team of dedicated craftsmen assist you in honoring your loved one, no matter the distance.
Whether you're a new client or a returning one, we make frequent visits to cemeteries in Fort Wayne to add final dates or additional text to existing memorials and headstones.
Cremation and Cemetery Benches
Personalize anything with customized graphics and/or lettering.
We can etch or engrave any custom letters or designs on nearly any material, all in-house.
Columbaria and Cremation Niches
Over time, outdoor elements can leave a granite or marble memorial dirty and prone to moss and lichen growth.
Contact us to have your memorial professionally cleaned.
