After funerals at funeral homes, the casket or urn carrying the deceased loved one will be transported to the cemetery and its final resting place. That may be to an earthen gravesite or it may be to a mausoleum. What is a mausoleum? A mausoleum is an aboveground structure that has the remains of one …
Our cremations services include helping bereaved families with grief resources. Bereaved family members will undertake the process of grieving and healing as they adjust to the new normal – and a different life – without their loved one. While great strides toward adjusting, adapting, and moving forward can be made, as the first anniversary of …
The funeral process at funeral homes is full of rituals and symbols that allow the memory of the deceased to be honored, enable friends and family to say goodbye, and provide care and empathy for the family that has lost a loved one. One funeral ritual is the visitation or viewing. This usually precedes the …
Our cremations services include guidance on how to comfort and support families that are grieving the loss of a loved one. At a time when family members who are mourning in great sorrow and pain, people can unintentionally make that pain and that sorrow even more intense because they say the wrong thing. People who …
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Making decisions about funerals at funeral homes may be the result of attending a death café. In Western society, people have distanced themselves so much from death and dying as a natural part of life that they have become something to be afraid of and to avoid at all costs. Modern medicine is focused on …
