Use fabric from favorite jeans, ties, costumes, etc. The quilt of pillow will ve a reminder of your loved one's life and a path to conversation and remembering. Working on it together with family and friends will help the stories emerge. Linda Cherek, R.N., CCM, MSW, LCSW, is a therapist specializing in grief, loss and women's issues. The reduction, through heat and evaporation, of the human body to its basic elements.
Cremation is a means of preparing the human body for disposition and memoralization.
Types of crypts include single crypts, true companion crypts, companion crypts and couch crypts. Single grave used for the burial of more than one remains, one on top of the other. Part of the price from every lot or grave selection that is invested in a special fund, the earnings of which are used for the future care expenditures of the cemetery. An unsealed concrete receptacle of two or more pieces in which the casket is placed at the time of burial, not specifically to protect the casket but to prevent the ground above from sinking. Generally made of concrete, steel, fiberglass, polypropylene or copper.