Planning Ahead - Disposition of Cremains, Flowers, and Memorialization

From what to do with the ashes to ways to memorialize your lost loved one


Disposition of Cremains
While urns remain the most common choice, more and more families are choosing from the many unique and highly personal options available when it comes to the disposition of their loved one's cremains:
  • Cremains in potted planter
  • Hand-crafted glass jewelry with cremains
  • Transform cremains into diamond
  • Embed cremains in a firework
  • Integrate cremains into a coral reef
  • Shoot cremains into space
  • Green burial of cremains
  • Scattering at sea
Confer with your family and plan ahead so that you're prepared when the moment arrives. Learn More

Flowers
Since it can often be difficult for those mourning a death to put their feelings into words, flowers can act as an expression of love, comfort, sympathy, and respect. Nothing symbolizes the value of our fleeting lives like flowers. Here today, gone tomorrow, their beauty is eternal. In addition to sending flowers to the funeral service, there is a growing trend to send flowers to the home of the bereaved. Learn More

Memorialization & Life celebration Events
Every Cremstar cremation comes with a complimentary online memorial from MemoryBox, the nation's leading memorialization website and app. With a MemoryBox memorial, you, your family and friends can post and share photos and memories of your lost loved one. If you're planning a dinner, memorial service, or scattering, try creating an "Event" Memory at MemoryBox. When folks join an Event Memory, as long as their phone is equipped with the MemoryBox app, all the photographs taken with their phone during the event are copied off their photo roll and added to the Event Memory online automatically - even if they're not actively using the MemoryBox app but just their phone's regular photo function! And for those who would like to arrange a virtual  Life Celebration Event, we've pioneered MemoryBox in the Metaverse, an online location to host virtual Life Celebration Events in real-time, with live eulogies, and guests using avatars joining from anywhere in the world. Whether you're curating your digital identity before you pass on - ensuring you're remembered the way you want to be remembered - or you're creating an online memorial for someone who's already transitioned, this powerful application makes it easy. Learn More

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