When You Choose Burial/Cremation
• A funeral home that transports the body from the place of death may or may not have it’s own crematory. In either case the option of cremation is required by law to be offered. • The cremation is a simple process of placing the body in container and then in a retort (cremation oven) and heating the retort to about 1600 degrees. • The body is then burned until only bones and ash are left. • The cremains (as they are called) are then pulverized in a steel blender until all bone fragments are ash up to the size of a pea (ashes). • The ashes are then placed in a box or urn and remitted back to the family. • Cremation cost range from $800 up to $3,000. • Anyone that chooses cremation for themselves can also look to whole body donation as an option because cremation is the end result of that process as well.
Traditional Cremation
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