After a person is cremated at a funeral home, are the ashes available for loved ones to take home?

Yes, they can be taken home. The cremated ashes will be placed in a rectangular plastic container and then placed in a cardboard box or velvet bag, or urn (if the family has purchased one) and returned to the next of kin.

In addition to the ashes, the crematorium authorities will prepare an official certificate of cremation for the family to certify that the body of the deceased has been legally disposed of, and the certificate must be kept with the ashes.

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Reason:

Some people choose cremation for personal reasons. But for some, it is because they dislike traditional burial and in the long run feel that its decomposition process is slow, and some feel that they prefer cremation because its body can be disposed of immediately.

Other people see cremation as a way to simplify their funeral rituals and also to alleviate the funeral problems caused by population growth. These people believe that traditional burials make the funeral process more cumbersome and therefore opt for cremation to make the service as simple as possible.

In addition, cost factors often make cremation more attractive. Generally, cremation costs less than traditional burial services, especially if you choose direct cremation, where the body is simply cremated as soon as legally possible without any other form of service.

However, the cost of cremation services can vary widely, based largely on how the deceased or his or her family wishes the cremation service to be conducted. Cremation can be performed in a traditional funeral service, which adds to the cost. The use of a casket also affects costs.

Ashes can be scattered or buried in a cremation plot or placed in a niche, for example, which usually costs less than burial in a form of earth burial in a cemetery or mausoleum in the lower chamber and requires less space. However, some religions, such as Roman Catholicism, require that ashes be interred or buried.

In most countries, regulations on infectious disease control require that the remains of those suffering from a legally contagious disease be cremated in order to prevent the spread of the disease.

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