Are there other options to my burial? Do i HAVE to be buried in a box??? NO!!!
There ARE other options to death..........CREMATION!!! Its cool and you can always have that special person in your home or scatter them...Sorry I'm getting ahead of my self here.
Cremation is in stead of being buried in a casket you are burned in a cardboard or wood box in a cremator its like a HUGE fireplace. The cremator gets up to 1600-1800 degrees and it takes almost
2 -1/2 hours for a body to completely burn down, But most of the bones and any metal doesn't burn down. So the bones are crushed and ground to dust. The metal is picked out because its not part of you when you are born. Then the remains are scraped out and put in an urn (an urn is a jar that holds human remains).
As you would guess its inexpensive because your not embalmed (embalming costs about $800.-$900.) All the professional services like staff for service, bathing, cosmetics, filling out important paper work, transporting the body, housing the body, can cost up to $3600.!!! It all comes to about $8,050 to be viewed and buried. And about $1200. to be cremated.
Columbarium is a chapel-mausoleum that has a lot of little compartments (called niches) that hold urn's with remains in them. You can scatter the ashes almost anywhere you would like, Or you can be buried in the ground after your burned.
Here's a pic. of a old cremator. and urn.
And a pic. of a modern cremator.
One of a pet kitty cat.
These are mausoleum's
And a few pics. of niche's (below)
Niches with urn's and memorial's in them.
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