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Use These Tactics To Make Your Crowdfunding Funeral Request Successful

If you have a loved one pass away and you lack the necessary funds to pay for a funeral service, one effective strategy to employ is to create a campaign on a crowdfunding website. Many people successfully use this approach to raise enough money to pay for the funeral service. Because there may be a significant number of similar campaigns across multiple crowdfunding websites, you want to do all that you can to make your campaign successful — and leave you with enough money to cover the service. Read More 

3 Questions To Ask Yourself When Selecting An Urn For Your Deceased Loved One

If a close loved one has passed away, you may find yourself responsible for making decisions about their cremation service, you may wonder how you should go about selecting an urn for their ashes. If so, ask yourself the following three questions during the decision making process. How Much Money Do You Have To Spend On The Urn? Before you start thinking about anything else, you should ask yourself how much money you have to spend on the urn. Read More 

Choosing A Travel Urn For Cremains

Bringing cremains with you on a commercial flight, train, or bus ride is possible, but it has to be planned carefully. Spilled or lost cremains are not what you want to deal with on your way home or to wherever you're scattering the ashes. The best way around these issues is to choose a travel urn, which can be a temporary urn that is made solely for the trip (they're commercially available, but they are no-frills and meant for traveling, not display), or a permanent urn with travel features built in. Read More 

3 Unique Types Of Keepsake Urns

If you're looking for something different than the typical urn, and would like a unique keepsake urn, then you have lots of choices. Not every urn has to resemble a vase that sits delicately on your mantle. There are urns that are more unusual looking, and can be kept on your desk or even on your person. This is great for people who don't want the overly serious urn. So, here's a few examples of the unique and not too formal urns that you can choose from. Read More 

Important Details To Know About Picking Up Cremated Remains At A Crematorium

If your loved one has passed away and you're taking on a number of related duties, you might find yourself dealing with a crematorium if your family member asked to be cremated. Someone from the funeral home or crematorium will arrange to pick up your loved one's body, cremate it in a timely manner, and then have the remains ready for you to collect. Then, you can display them in an urn at the funeral service, followed by either scattering them in a special area or keeping them in your home. Read More