Exploring The Burial Plot Selection Process

Posted on: 24 August 2016

When working on your own funeral pre-plan, you'll need to specify how you want your physical body taken care of. Your two choices are traditional burial of the body and cremation. More people are choosing cremation over traditional burial. While some make the choice to reduce the costs of the funeral or for convenience, people also see cremation as an act of kindness to the people they love and to the planet. Here is why those people made that choice and why you may do so in your own funeral pre-plan.

You Reduce the Stress on Your Family to Organize Your Funeral

Your family will be dealing with their own grief from your passing, so whatever you can do to reduce their stress is helpful. By specifying that you want a direct cremation in your funeral pre-plan, you reduce the number of actions that your family needs to take. Your body will be taken to the crematorium immediately, and the cremains will be returned to your family. They can now take their time making arrangements for your funeral and the final disposition of your cremains.

You Make It Easier On Your Family If You Pass Away While Away From Home

If you're a frequent traveler, then you increase the chances that you may pass away when away from home on business or pleasure. It can be an expensive and complicated process to get your body back home for funeral services. Giving your family the option to have you cremated makes this a much easier process. You can be cremated wherever you passed away and have your cremains shipped to your family by a regular delivery service.

You Leave a Smaller and Ecologically Friendly Footprint on the Planet

If you want to minimize the impact that your passing has on the planet, cremation allows you to do that several ways:

• You won't need a casket that might be made of non-renewable natural resources.
• You won't need embalming which uses toxic chemicals that will make their way into the ground after your body has been buried.
• You won't need to take up space in a cemetery.

If you request that your family scatter your cremains at a favorite location, the final disposition of your body will have minimal impact on the environment.

Even if you choose to be cremated, you can still have the traditional funeral services, including a visitation service. This will help your friends and family have some closure after your passing. Your family can even have a private "grave side" service where they invite close friends to be present as they scatter your cremains at a special location.

For more information, contact Catchen Don & Son Funeral Home or a similar location.