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Guest Post By:  Berta Simon


Having a relative cremated is starting to become a more popular choice than traditional funeral services. The lower cremation costs are making it a preferred choice of relatives of deceased people. Traditional funerals can be thrice as expensive. Burying someone in a cemetery also has environmental repercussions.

To facilitate a conventional burial, several areas of trees and raw land will have to be cleared out. This is done to make room for cemeteries. Global warming is worsened by cutting down so many trees. It is also costly to buy a burial plot since most land is needed to accommodate expanding communities.

If you decide to cremate your relative, you can simple scatter his ashes over land. Others prefer to keep the ashes of their loved ones nearby and place them in an urn at home. This gets rid of the need to buy a plot for a grave. You do not have to buy land in a cemetery.

There are different ways to cremate someone. You may host a viewing before the cremating process so that friends and relatives can view the body. You can also perform a direct burning process and just hold a memorial at home with the dead relatives pictures and memorabilia. Both options will be inexpensive compared to a conventional funeral.

You can also save with a crematory service by scrimping on the casket. If you decide to host a viewing of the deceased, you can rent a casket. The body of the deceased is removed from a casket before the process starts. Conventional funerals require that the body be buried with a casket.

Conventional burials will require you to spend for embalming, a casket, transporting the body to the cemetery and purchasing a grave spot at the cemetery. Cremation costs will be much lower if you want to do a basic crematory service. All you will need to spend for are the urn and the cremation service. cremation costs




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