When making arrangements for a loved one or planning for themselves, more people are choosing cremation in the last 25 years.
The Cremation Association of North America in Wheeling believes a rise in cremation is a generational shift and offers families more flexibility in planning services. Depending on choices, cremation can often be more practical and for some is chosen for spiritual or environmental reasons.
The National Funeral Directors Association explains that when choosing cremation, funeral professionals can provide help and guidance in planning for a variety of services as well as a final resting place.
If cremation is chosen, it doesn’t exclude a visitation and a memorial service, if the family would like these traditions. An urn or picture are often displayed as an expression of the loved one along with other favorite items, pictures, or a video celebrating the loved one’s life.
The NFDA says there are a variety of options for a final resting place. Some choose earth burial because their loved ones who have gone before them may have been buried in a casket and family often chooses to have their final resting place together.
Another option is an indoor or outdoor Columbarium, similar to a mausoleum but with niches for an urn. Working with your funeral director is a good choice if choosing to scatter a loved one’s cremated remains to be sure it is permitted and to better understand the finality of the act. Others may choose to keep the remains close in their home in an urn in a special spot.
While cremation has increased in popularity of late, the family and staff at Friedrich-Jones and Overman-Jones Funeral Homes in Naperville and Plainfield has provided complete creation services for years, from immediate cremation to visitation and memorial services to scattering and out-of-town arrangements, helping local families for generations. For more information, visit friedrichjones.com or contact Friedrich-Jones Naperville at 630-355-0213 or Plainfield at 815-436-9221.
