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Choosing an Urn for Your Loved One

Help choosing urns are among the cremation services offered in Glendale, AZ. Choosing an urn to keep the cremation remains of our deceased loved one in is not always an easy task. If our loved one has told us what kind of urn or container their cremation remains should be kept, stored, or buried in, then that certainly makes this part of the cremation process easier.

However, if our deceased loved one didn’t say anything about their funeral wishes except that they wanted to be cremated, then we are left to decide what cremation urn or container both honors them and provides a personal and intimate aspect of who they were as a person.

Choosing a cremation urn or container is an important part of the cremation process. It’s not a decision that we have to rush into or feel that we’re on the spot to decide when we meet with the funeral director to make funeral arrangements. Cremation remains are always put in a container before they are returned to the funeral home for final disposition – if they’re going to be stored in a columbarium niches or buried in an urn garden or cemetery – or the funeral home will be giving them to the deceased’s family for final disposition.

Although the cremation container the crematory supplies is considered a temporary container, it is a perfectly acceptable cremation container to store our loved one’s cremation remains in until we make a final decision on a permanent cremation urn or container.

Many factors go into selecting a permanent cremation urn or container. We should take time to consider each one before making a final decision.

Before we do anything else, we need to factor in whether we will be using some of our deceased loved one’s cremation remains to scatter and some to make memorial jewelry, use in some kind of permanent artistic way, or mix with soil to grow a plant or tree, and then place the remainder in a cremation urn or container.

Since cremation remains average between three and nine pounds, we should consider how many pounds will be left to, if we decide to use them in several ways, place into a permanent urn or container. This may be our guide for choosing a permanent cremation urn or container.

Conversely, if we end up choosing a permanent cremation urn or container that can hold only a smaller portion of our loved one’s cremation remains, then we can allocate more to the other ways we want to use them.

What’s most important is that we consider what our deceased loved one would have wanted. Sometimes there are items were special to our loved one that we could use as a permanent cremation urns or containers, but they may not immediately come to mind as possibilities.

Almost any item that can hold a small, sealed plastic bag can be used as a permanent cremation urn or container. For example, if our loved one had a favorite handmade wooden jewelry box, we could use that. If our loved one enjoyed bowling or playing guitar, we could use their bowling ball or guitar (specially-purposed for this) as a permanent cremation urn or a container.

Thinking about what our loved ones would want their cremation remains permanently placed into can open the doors of creativity for us in making the final decision.

For more information about choosing urns and cremation services provided in Glendale, AZ, our compassionate and experienced team at Simply Cremation & Funeral Arrangements is here to help. You can come to our funeral home at 16952 W. Bell Rd., #303, Surprise, AZ, 85374, or you can contact us today at (623) 975-9393.

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