What Shall We Do With the Ashes —Cremains?

1 what Shall We Do done at the convenience of the military, the family may not witness sea burial. The funeral going to be visible, seashells can be mixed in for a nice touch. If a child or grandchild does wood- with the Ashes Cremains? home will charge postage to send the cremains working, perhaps an attractive box would be a to the nearest base. welcome project. When a person has selected cremation and that Let the family do it process has been carried out, the Ashes have a volume roughly that of a five pound sack of All states allow the cremains to be given to the Cremains are also splitable.

2 For example, sugar plus a bit more. The bone fragments are survivors for disposition. According to the if several of the children would like cremains pulverized to about kitty litter texture. Environmental Protection Agency, cremated for memory purposes, they can be divided up. Depending on the fuel and temperature used, remains heading for the ocean must be scattered The cremains could be divided so that a wife they are somewhere between a light grey and outside the three-mile limit. When I e-mailed a could be buried with both husband #1 and white color. request for the rationale for such a requirement husband #2.

3 Or they could be split so that and the penalty for not abiding by that half are buried in Florida, and the other half The word Ashes is a misnomer. Cremains is now regulation, I got no answer. up north.. an oft-used word, although many prefer the technically-accurate two-word phrase cremated Because of the stark-white color of most remains. The funeral home or crematorium will cremated remains, scattering may not be as make the cremains available in a cardboard box, anonymous as you might imagine. Check the Bury the urn on your property a metal box, or a Tupperware-like plastic contents of the box before deciding the most appropriate location.

4 Some have chosen a golf with the permission of the landowner, all states container. You are usually expected to pick up permit private burial of cremated remains, the container, unless you've made some other course, the lake behind the house, a favorite fishing spot, or under the orange tree in the including California as of 1998. Although this is arrangement for disposition. a viable option, eventually the land is going to backyard. So, what are some of the options for disposing be sold. At that point it becomes rather difficult of the cremains? If you do plan to scatter cremains, don't forget for family members to return to pay their to throw them downwind!

5 Respects. And it might unknowingly be dug up to Let the funeral home take care of it make way for a pool. Who knows? Keep the cremains in an urn or nice box Disposition services are offered by many funeral Another concern of burying or scattering the homes. However, if you fail to make any As with caskets, funeral directors make a huge profit on urns. It isn't necessary to put the cremains on one's property is that they might arrangements, the funeral home may have the become a constant, melancholy reminder of the legal right to dispose of cremated remains within cremains in an expensive urn.

6 Unfortunately, some less-than-honest firms will tell survivors person who died. A second spouse, working a certain number of days. Some will ask for a around rose bushes where the first spouse now deposit to cover this expense, refundable if the that they have to purchase a temporary container ($45+) if they haven't got an urn. resides, may find the situation uncomfortable, parcel is retrieved by the responsible party. too. This is to lead the survivors into buying an Let the Navy scatter them expensive urn. The survivors have the right to Bury the urn in a cemetery Scattering of cremains at sea is available to all refuse such a purchase and can ask for the container that comes from the crematory.

7 This is an attractive option where burial plots veterans and dependents and is provided by the may already be owned, especially up north.. Navy or Coast Guard. A flag is required, When the cremains are being saved to provide The urn can be sent to the cemetery or a family and if supplied by the family can be memories, it's really quite appropriate to put member for direct interment. Or it could be returned. The Veterans Administration will give them in a container related to the deceased's life. displayed there, along with memorabilia, at a a flag to the family.

8 If supplied by the Navy, the For example, a pretty vase, a fancy wine bottle, visitation or memorial service, before interment. flag will not be returned. Because sea burials are a terrarium, etc., might be suitable. If they are Cemeteries usually have rules that allow three, or more, urns to be buried in one burial plot. The guard carried the container to the niche for a normal procedure is to use an auger to drill a final prayer and curtain closing. hole four to six feet deep and about six inches in For my mother (2 years later), the service was diameter. The urn is lowered on a double cord, held at the niche.

9 Since the cremains had been which allows the cord to be retrieved. Then the sent to my home, I gave them to the honor what Shall hole is filled in. Some of the for-profit guard, who carried them to the niche, and my cemeteries are now requiring expensive urn brother put them in. My sister had prepared a vaults, totally unnecessary. (If funeral director flat container of some of their personal effects, We Do with type services are required on the other end, do (a library card, favorite book marker, etc.) which contact the Memorial Society there to locate the was also put in.)

10 The chaplain who conducted the recommended one.). service had no problem with that. Bury the urn with the spouse A variation of burying the urn is to keep it until the spouse dies and then mix the cremains into A final It has always been my intention to be cremated. the Ashes ? And until a month or so ago, it was also my one urn for burial (or scattering), bury both urns intention to have my cremains interred at a at the same time, or put the urn in the casket of National Cemetery (since I had been in the (Cremains). the second to die. military). However, a friend pointed out that Inter the cremains in a columbarium when your parents are interred at a particular site, there is the obligation to visit it one or more A columbarium looks very much like the book times per year.