After cremation services take place, you might choose to bury your loved one’s ashes to give your family a place to visit and your loved one a permanent resting place with traditions. 

Perhaps the decision to use cremation services in Chicago, IL for your loved one was easy. Maybe you knew what they wanted or maybe your family didn’t have a large enough budget to go forward with a full funeral and burial. Whatever the case may be, once the cremation is complete, you also have to decide what to do with your loved one’s ashes. You could scatter them, keep them in an urn in your house, or bury them. Here are some examples as to why you might move forward with a burial.

A Special Place To Visit

If your family is around the location and they would all like to have somewhere special to go when they are thinking of your loved one, a burial might be a nice idea. You can get a much smaller plot than you would need for a traditional burial so it will cost less. But you can place a grave marker on the plot and give your family somewhere to visit that they can take flowers and remember your loved one.

Their Hometown

If your loved one was born and raised around here, perhaps you know they would be just fine with the idea of staying there forever. Instead of scattering them into a body of water or even onto land where their ashes would blow away, you want to bury them so they stay put right where they have always been. Burying ashes is a great way to keep your loved one in the place that makes them feel most at home.

Family Traditions

If your family usually has funerals and burials, one way to help everyone feel okay with the idea of cremation is to give them a more traditional burial. Your loved one’s cremation can have a memorial service following it and then a burial ceremony, similar to a traditional burial. Those that have never seen a cremation service before will feel more comfortable with the idea all the way around. It’s a great way to compromise when families disagree on what should be done.

Discomfort With Other Methods

Perhaps you don’t feel comfortable with the idea of keeping your loved one in an urn in your house or maybe you don’t like the idea of scattering their remains, unaware of where they end up. Burial could be the comfort you need for a final resting place.

It’s never easy to make such big decisions on behalf of someone you loved. But when you go with cremation services in Chicago, IL, the options are open, and you get to choose a final resting place. Any of the options are completely dignified, respectful, and honoring to your loved one. You just have to go with what’s best for your situation. Contact the professionals at Chicagoland Cremation Options at (773) 631-0018 for help with the cremation and we can give you recommendations for any final resting place you prefer as well. We’re located at 9329 Byron St, Schiller Park, IL 60176 and we’re here to help.