Create a Unique Custom Burial
Saturday, February 21st, 2009Making a funeral special and unique is often difficult to do. In the depths of grief, making creative decisions about burials, the service and the headstone can be daunting. It quickly becomes easier to just go with the quality standards available through your funeral home or director. This is why I am always encouraging readers to begin talking about and creating a funeral plan for yourself or an elderly loved on. By thinking ahead, you will be able to give the deceased a ceremony and a service that they want – one that is loving, celebratory, and in-line with how they lived their life and want to be remembered.
Once a casket is buried or the cremated remains are interned in the ground or in a mausoleum, it is traditional to have a grave marker or headstone decorate the area in memoriam for the deceased. Plaques, monuments, markers and headstones are all common memorials placed in honor of the loved one. 
Sources are now saying that Crematoriums may be responsible for roughly 9% of airborne mercury emissions in the world. These emissions stem from the combustion of dental amalgam. Atmospheric dioxins known to cause cancer and other illnesses are also emitted through the cremation process – about 12% in the world is attributed to it. Chloride and formaldehyde is also released into the environment during the embalming process. This surprising data has many turning to other greener means of burial as they make their end-of-life plans.