Cremation Options Reflect Personal Choices

If cremation is your choice or the choice of your loved one, you have many service options when you use a Dignity Memorial® provider. Our caring professionals will respectfully work with you to plan cremation services and memorialization that fulfill your wishes and honor your life or the life of your loved one.

When you choose cremation, it’s important to remember to plan for the permanent placement of cremated remains as well. Cremation memorialization at your local cemetery is important for many reasons:

  • A permanent site gives loved ones a physical place for visitation and reflection.
  • The ceremony accompanying the placement of an urn in a cremation niche or a cremation garden in a cemetery provides family and friends with closure after the loss of a loved one.
  • When the cremation remains of a loved one are kept with relatives, they can easily become misplaced or discarded through the years, as future generations may not feel a connection to the deceased.
  • A permanent placement provides future generations with a location to visit when researching heritage.

When planning cremation services with us, you can select items individually or, to make the selection process even easier, you can choose one of our four Dignity Memorial cremation packages. Dignity Memorial packages are designed to simplify your choices and help you create a meaningful and personal tribute for your loved one. Our packages group together valuable services and merchandise while also taking into account your personal wishes. (Packages may not be available in all areas.)

 

Each package includes:

  • Service of our professional staff
  • Care and preparation of the deceased
  • Crematory fee
  • Necessary service vehicles
  • Cremation casket / container
  • Urn selection
  • Memorial stationery
  • Everlasting Memorial® or Everlasting Moments™ digital memorial tribute
  • Floral selection (not available in Massachusetts)
  • Reception and catering allowance
  • Processing and filing of necessary government permits and authorizations

Four packages are available:

Veteran's Benefits

Service of Choice

Visitation / Wake  (one-day)

Cremation Casket from the Legacy Collection

Urn Selection

Premium Floral Selection

Memorial Stationery

Everlasting Memorial® Digital Tribute

Veteran's Benefits

Service of Choice

Visitation / Wake (one-day)

Cremation Casket from the Hertiage Collection

Urn Selection

Deluxe Floral Selection

Memorial Stationery

Everlasting Memorial® Digital Tribute

 
Veteran's Benefits

Memorial Service

Cremation Container from the Honor Collection

Urn Selection

Large Floral Selection

Memorial Stationery

Everlasting Memorial® Digital Tribute

Veteran's Benefits

Private Family Viewing

Cremation Container from the Tribute Collection

Urn Selection

Floral Selection

Memorial Stationery

 

The merchandise and services included in a package may vary at different providers. Contact your Dignity Memorial provider to learn about the contents of the Dignity Memorial cremation packages it offers.

 

Additional Cremation Plan Services and Benefits

Aftercare® Planner

This comprehensive estate management guide is an invaluable tool in helping to finalize business and personal affairs.

 

24-Hour Compassion Helpline® Counseling

Professionally trained grief counselors with advanced degrees provide unlimited 24-hour phone counseling throughout the year following your loss. 24-Hour Compassion Helpline is provided by Charles Nechtem & Associates Inc.

 

Everlasting Memorial® / Everlasting Moments™

Share and preserve your loved one’s life story with a tribute movie, photo gallery and online biography. A personalized hard cover keepsake book is also available.

 

100% Service Guarantee

We are committed to service beyond expectation. To that end, we offer this guarantee: if you let us know of anything we can do to better serve you before, during or after the services, we will do so immediately.

 

Bereavement Travel Services

Through our exclusive relationship with a national travel agency, you have access to the best available travel options throughout the United States, Canada and many international destinations. On a moment’s notice, dedicated travel specialists will seek the best available airfare, hotel accommodations and car rentals for all family and friends to attend a funeral, cremation, memorial or graveside service. There is a nominal fee associated with the issuance or an airline ticket.

 

Dignity Memorial Guidance Series™

The loss of a loved one and the accompanying grief are extremely difficult. Our Dignity Memorial Guidance Series was developed to support those coping with complex emotions.

 

Personal Planning Guide

The Dignity Memorial Personal Planning Guide helps you organize vital information including personal affairs, family heritage, military history, estate information and more.

 

National Transferability

Should you move more than 75 miles from where your original advance arrangements were made, your prearranged funeral services are fully transferable and will be honored by any Dignity Memorial provider in North America.

 

Child / Grandchild Protection Plan

Acknowledging that nothing can ease the pain of losing a child or grandchild, we will provide funeral or cremation services at no cost up to the level of the package you have selected, through any Dignity Memorial provider. The child or grandchild must be under 21 years of age and unmarried. Not available in Maryland.

 

Ready to make your cremation package selection now? Start planning right away with our free online planning tool. You can make your selections online and share them automatically with the family members or friends you designate. Or contact us to request your free Personal Planning Guide.

 

Our firm does not provide cemetery services.

 To locate a Dignity Memorial cemetery provider near you, click here.

Dignity Memorial®
Personal Planning Guide

Record your choices for your final arrangements and essential estate and personal information.


Ready to Make Your Final Arrangements Online Today?

It’s easy with our free online planning tool. You can make your selections online and save, update and share them as you wish.

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Cemetery Property
Completes Your Plan

Remember to select cemetery property that is right for you. Click here to learn more or find a Dignity Memorial cemetery provider near you.

Celebrate a Life Lived

The funeral service allows family and friends to honor, recognize and celebrate the life of their loved one. To learn more about planning a funeral service befitting of the life lived,
click here.

All Faiths, All Cultures
Honored with Dignity®

Dignity Memorial® professionals are knowledgeable in the funeral and burial traditions of all faiths and cultures.

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Start the Conversation

The conversation about advance funeral and cemetery planning doesn’t need to be hard. Use these tips to start the conversation with your family about the importance of making arrangements in advance.

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