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What Are Your Options?
There are more than a few services available but time or location may limit one's options. The most common services to be available at any given funeral home are cremation and burial.
What is cremation?
Cremation is a method of final bodily departure through burning. Cremation typically uses a machine called a cremulator, but in some countries, including India and Nepal, cremation is on an open-air pyre.
If you decide to donate your body you will be allocated to a good cause then cremated.
What kind of burial?
Burial is a very old practice and has many variations depending on the culture and personal wishes.
The main categories of burial are:
Traditional burial
Green burial
Mausoleum
Jewish burial
What is alkaline hydrolysis?
Alkaline hydrolysis (also called aquamation', biocremation, flameless cremation, or water cremation) is a process for bodily departure using lye and heat to increase the natural rate of bodily dispersion.
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What is human composting?
Human composting also known as natural organic reduction (NOR) is powered by beneficial microbes that
occur naturally on our bodies aiding in the process of turning your body into soil
How can you donate your body?
Whole-body donation refers to when you donate your body to science which almost everyone can do.
How can you become an organ donor?
Organ donation after death requires very specific circumstances for you to become elibable as a donor. Though, under the right circomstances you can truely improve the lives of others with your gift.
What Do People Usually Do?
A survey done by choice mutual, a life insurance company, asked their users if they had a plan and if so what kind of funeral service they'd prefer. This survey revealed that the majority wanted cremations with a smaller demand for burials.
1%
Other :
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human composting
-
cryostasis
-
alkaline hydrolysis
4%
Natural burial
Green burial
44%
Cremation
35%
Traditional burial
6%
Donate body to science
10%
No plan
Average Price?
One of the biggest deterrents for pre-planning is financial insecurity so having a better understanding of what price range is and what services are available within that price range could make pre-planning less intimidating.
0
1,400+
3,500+
5,500+
6,200+
7,360+
Donate body to science
Alkaline Hydrolysis
Green Burial
Human Composting
Cremation
Traditional Burial with Embalming
Whole Body to Basic Earth Elemental
Each process has it's own time line on how long it take for the deceased to fully transfer to its basic earth elements. Cremation has the shortest time like of 1-3 hours while traditional burial has the longest time line of 100 years minimum.
1-3
hours
2-4
hours
1-4
days+
30
days
2
years+
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100
years+
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