When is the best time to buy a cremation urn?
The best time to buy a cremation urn varies depending on answers to a few questions. One advantage of cremation is that the urgency to quickly buy an urn and organize...
Gifts for the Bereaved - Beyond Sympathy Gifts
When someone we love is deeply grieving, we might fumble for adequate words. Other than baking a casserole or sending a sympathy gift, what else can we do? What can we...
What Is It Like to Keep Ashes at Home?
One of the many benefits of cremation is the sheer variety of ways we can display or honor our loved ones’ remains. The concept of displaying an urn invites thoughtful...
Cremation Niches & Choosing an Urn for a Columbarium
When it comes to choosing a final resting place for your lost loved one, you may consider choosing a columbarium niche to host their cremains or ashes. To explain briefly...
Choosing to Cremate or Not
Coming to terms with your own death is never an easy task, let alone the decision between burial or some other form of end-of-life preference. Being buried wholly beneath the...
Pets: End of Life Care and Cremation
If you have a pet, how can you prepare for the inevitable loss? Who will understand your grief? What help is available for a terminally ill pet?
Selecting a Memory Lamp: A Thoughtful Sympathy Gift
During times of sadness, loss, or difficulty, memory lamps emanate a comforting glow of light. At other milestones, their beauty and unique design can honor a birth, or another special...
Funeral and Cremation Jewelry
History tells of grieving widows and the common practice of placing a lock of her deceased husband’s hair into a pendant to wear around her neck. Indian legends tell of...
Cultural Rituals of Spring and Easter and Their Significance
Who doesn’t enjoy Spring? The turn of seasons is a radiant cycle, with the arrival of Spring being the most jubilant of all, resplendent with emerging delicate green buds, days...
Cryonics and End of Life Planning: Part Two
Nederland, Colorado is host to cryogenic proponent Bredo Morstoel, of Norway. Morstoel requested that he be preserved believing that he would be revived to live again in the future. When...
Cryonics and End of Life Planning: Part One
“Dying well” can be challenging. Throw in the possibility of not dying, and it becomes more complex. Now people are making plans to have their bodies preserved at sub-zero temperatures...
5 Features that Make a High Quality Cremation Urn
A “high quality” cremation urn largely depends on the features and benefits that you, the consumer, require. But it also begins with materials and production, as well as attention to...