Many people choose cremation as an alternative to a traditional burial service. Cremation does not necessarily eliminate funeral or graveside services. In many cases cremation may be followed by a ground burial. Services may take place graveside, at a funeral home, place of worship or any other place you may choose. Toledo Memorial Park offers a range of choices allowing you to taylor the service in the exact way you find most meaningful for your loved one. Our funeral planners will help guide you through all of the options available.
Each year on on Memorial Day in the United States and Remembrance Day in Canada, thousands of individuals travel to local cemeteries and memorial parks to pay their respects to departed family members and friends. This once-a-year event, originally established to honor our war dead, signals the time for taking plants to grave sites, placing flowers in columbarium vases and meditating in churches and chapels.
Those who say – whether in jest or seriously – “Just cremate me and throw me out!” do not realize the burden this places on family members. Direct disposal of cremated remains throughout funerals or memorialization of any kind can cause serious traumatic problems for survivors. An executive of the Forum for Death Education tells of one patient under therapy as a result of scattering the cremated remains of a loved one. She had no focal point for her grief until he suggested that she obtain a niche at a local mausoleum and place some memento of the loved one within.
These days you have a wide choice on where to place cremated remains. You may select a niche in a columbarium with space for one, two or even an entire family. You may choose interment in a single burial site, an urn garden or family plot.
