Cremation
Families choose cremation for different reasons. Sometimes it is chosen because individuals want to process death as a private experience and are not ready to share during this vulnerable time. Other times, families find having a ceremony or gathering brings healing from the support of others, and also relieves the pressure later to continually explain what happened to a loved one since there wasn’t closure for the community left around them. After saying goodbye, some need a place to visit and return to pay homage, while others want to remember their loved one freely at a place they treasured. These are the kinds of topics we will discuss with you so your family can decide whether cremation is the best option for you. Cremation is an irreversible decision and you can trust us to help you find a dignified way to honor your loved one.
Why You Can Trust Us as Your Cremation Provider
- We Take Very Seriously the Responsibility You Entrust in Us. We maintain a high level of service throughout the cremation process. Safeguards are in place to ensure that once your loved one enters our care, they are clearly identified, and verification occurs at every step of the cremation process.
- We Promise to Deliver Quality Customer Service. Each cremation is handled individually and privately in a peaceful setting. We have licensed crematory operators dedicated to providing cremation services. Each cremation is managed by a licensed funeral director and a licensed crematory operator.
- We pledge Safekeeping and Prompt Return of Your Loved One’s Cremated Remains.We know it’s important for you to know your loved one will be coming home as soon as possible. We promise to notify you as soon as their ashes become available and safeguard their urn until the time you are ready to receive your loved one.
Why Choose Cremation
- Flexibility in Memorializing. Cremation allows families more time to plan a memorial service by taking away the time constraints associated with a burial. That extra time allows for a “no rush” approach to planning a service.
- Eco-friendly. The second most popular reason people in America are choosing cremation — it preserves the land and limits their carbon footprint after death.
- Families are located all over geographically. 41% of Americans live in a state in which they were not born. (source: CEO of Funeralocity) Because of the increased mobility in our society, people are choosing an option that doesn’t tie them down to a specific cemetery or location where their family may not be in the future. People are on the move – migrating to new cities for retirement, living longer in these cities and considering them as their “new home,” and therefore, in many situations, not requesting their body be “repatriated” to their birth city. Cremation allows the deceased to be flexible to move with a loved one when they relocate.
- Cost less than burial. Cremation costs less than a traditional burial service.
- Cremation opens endless opportunities for families to incorporate customization into remembering their loved one. Families can have custom-made urns, incorporate their loved one into an ocean reef, and use the loved one’s cremated remains to create their favorite vinyl record or jewelry, grow a tree, or even launch their ashes over the ocean or into space.
- Religious restrictions are diminishing. Most religions are now supporting cremation as an approved option for burial. For example, the Catholic Church now recognizes cremation as an appropriate burial option. (See the Vatican’s instructions.)