Direct Cremation: $1,295.
Service Includes:
- Arrangement meeting
- Filing death certificate
- Refrigeration (Embalming is optional)
- Cremation container (This is not the memorial urn)
- Cremation process
- Filing Social Security and VA forms
Options:
- Memorial service
- Traditional service
- Visitation
- Casket rental
- Embalming
When you make the HeritageChoice, please use the following form to select all of your planning preferences. Please be sure you have Adobe Acrobat Reader to use this form. (Don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader? Download it for free here). You may either print the form or fill it out electronically and send it to us via email.
Heritage Funeral Home Funeral Worksheet
Heritage Funeral and Cremation Services
Guide to Cremation
Cremation is the process of reducing the body to bone fragments through the application of intense heat. It is not an end in itself, but is preparation for memorialization similar to traditional funeral arrangements. The options for memorialization are many and varied. Please discuss you wishes with our funeral directors.
Price comparison
The cost of a direct cremation is about 20% of the average funeral with body burial. Including visitation, funeral services, and cemetery services, the cost of cremation is about half of the body burial expenses. The price is lower because the charges for the burial casket, vault, and full size grave preparation are eliminated.Available options
- Family gathering
- Public visitation
- Memorial service
- Graveside services
- Optional cremation container
- Rental casket for church or chapel funeral
- Memorial urns and cremation vaults
- Shipping and handling of ashes to U.S. destinations
- Embalming
- Memorial folders, prayer cards, register book.
Legal Steps Regarding Cremation
- Be certain your will details your instructions for cremation
- Sign an Authorization for Cremation form and include it with your will
- Share your desire for cremation with other family members
- Pre-purchase your cremation and include the contract with your will
The Process of Cremation
Each cremation is performed individually. The deceased is placed in a combustible casket or other container which is then placed into a cremation chamber. Through the use of suitable fuel, incineration of the container and contents is accomplished and all substances are consumed with the exception of some bone fragments and metal items including dental gold or surgical implants.Following a cooling period the cremated remains are swept from the cremation chamber. Every effort is made to remove all of the remains, but it is impossible to remove all of them as some dust and other residue from the process are always left behind.
After the remains are removed, all non-combustible materials will be separated and removed and disposed of by the crematory. The remaining material, largely bone fragments are then pulverized and placed in the memorial urn.
