Serving Northern New York and Vermont
Prearranging funeral and cemetery preferences and expenses is the best way of ensuring that your wishes are honored. Just as we prepare a will to ensure that our property is distributed properly, we should prepare instructions to ensure that our wishes regarding our final disposition are followed. In the planning process you will have a chance to research your options and make a well thought out decision.
The irreversible process of reducing human remains to bone fragments through extreme heat and evaporation.
No, a casket is not required for cremation. All that is usually required by most states is an alternative container constructed of wood or cardboard, which is cremated with the body.
Yes, in many cases, we will allow family members to be present when the body is placed into the crematory. In fact, some religious groups include this as part of their funeral custom.
Today most religions allow cremation except for Orthodox Jewish, Islamic, Eastern Orthodox and a few Fundamentalist Christian faiths.
If the family is planning on a memorial service, we encourage the cremated remains be present as it provides a focal point for the service.
There are many options and laws vary state to state. Remains can be buried in a cemetery lot or cremation garden, inurned in a columbarium, kept at home, or scattered.
While some people select cremation for economy, many choose this option for other reasons. The simplicity and dignity of cremation, environmental concerns, and the flexibility cremation affords in ceremony planning and final disposition all add to its increasing popularity.
Most funeral homes subcontract this delicate procedure out to a third party provider in another town where the funeral home has little or no control over the crematory's operating procedures. Often, the family incurs additional transportation expenses and needless delay. Mountain View Crematory is owned and operated by Brown Funeral Home.
Evergreen Washelli has developed a rigorous set of operating policies and procedures in order to maximize the level of service and minimize the potential for human error. If you have questions, ask us about our procedures.
It depends on the weight of the individual. For an average size adult, cremation takes from two to three hours at normal operating temperature between 1,500 degrees F to 2,000 degrees F.
After the cremation process is complete, the cremated remains are removed from the cremation chamber and placed in a tray for cooling. They are then processed to their final reduced consistency. The processed cremated remains are placed into an urn or some other type of container, according to the wishes of the family. Most cremated remains weigh between four to eight pounds, depending on the bone structure of the human remains.
Never. It is illegal to do so.
Cremated remains resemble coarse sand and are whitish to light grey in color. The remains of an average size adult usually weigh between six to eight pounds.
With the exception of minute and microscopic particles, which are impossible to remove from the cremation chamber and processing machine, all of the cremated remains are given back to the family
An urn is not required by law. However, an urn may be desired if there is to be a memorial service or the remains are to be interred in a cemetery. If an urn is not purchased through us, or provided by the family, we will return the cremated remains in a temporary container.
