When a loved one passes, there are many difficult decisions to make. These challenging choices compounded by grief can be made easier with the help of a compassionate funeral professional. In Bridgeport, Connecticut, residents have come to depend on Commerce Hill Radozycki Funeral Home to assist with funeral planning and cremation services. If you’re choosing between cremation or a burial, here are some basics to consider from the funeral planning team at Commerce Hill Radozycki Funeral Home:
Cremation: Cremation reduces the human body into cremated remains within a matter of hours. The process is quick in comparison to traditional body decomposition through the burial method. Cremation, especially when planned through a funeral home that
Since each funeral home is for the majority independent, the “leader” is either the owner or the manager. The position is achieved th...
“In most human society's death is an extremely important cultural and social phenomenon, sometimes more important than birth” (Ohnuki-Tierney, Angrosino, & Daar et al. 1994). In the United States of America, when a body dies it is cherished, mourned over, and given respect by the ones that knew the person. It is sent to the morgue and from there the family decides how the body should be buried or cremated based on...
Without advanced medicine, Americans were familiar with death, as the common cold could easily turn fatal. After the death of a loved one, the family members would give the body a bath and store it in the coldest room of the house to prevent immediate decomposing. The body would only stay in the house until people had time to visit and say their goodbyes. The smell was unpleasant, so flowers would be brought in. This initiated the tradition of having flowers at a funeral. After that, the body would be buried next to other deceased family members in a simple, wooden coffin. For those that could afford it, an undertaker was hired to take away the body and hold a formal funeral. The undertaker would store bodies on blocks of
Morbid Funeral Home, Inc. is an accrual basis taxpayer who sells preneed funeral contracts. Customers pay Morbid in advance for goods and services to be provided at the contract beneficiary’s death. Under state law the payments are refundable if the contract purchaser requests them any time until the goods and services are furnished. Morbid, for both financial and tax accounting purposes, includes the payments in income for the year the funeral service is provided. Morbid insists that the amounts it receives under the contracts are customer deposits. The IRS agent insists that the payments are prepaid income that is subject to tax in the year of receipt.
Being a consolidated funeral home they can offer cheaper services for those without a great deal of income, but they can also provide the top-of –the-line funeral service for those who want to pay for it.
True to Wicca’s top concern and faithfulness to preserving nature, a Wiccan’s preferred method of burial is wrapping the deceased body with clean, white cotton cloth and placed directly into the ground. This is preferred so the decomposition of the body goes back directly into the earth, where nutrients are believed to be delivered back into the Earth. (No author, no date, ulc.org) However, because directly laying a body into the ground is illegal in most states, cremation is the next preferred method, where the body’s ashes can still be given back to the Earth in a healthy
It has been found that the decomposition process is best divided into five stages: fresh stage, bloated stage, decay stage, post-decay stage, and remains. The fresh stage starts the moment the individual died and lasts until bloating can be observed. The bloated stage is usually within two to seven days after death. Putrefaction begins at this stage and the gases produced from bacteria cause...
I have chosen to plan my own funeral and post mortem arrangements with the minimal budget of $2,700. Since I have such limited funds to work I have decided to cremate my body instead of the more traditional burial in a coffin. Cremation is a cheaper alternative to an earth burial, more environmentally friendly, and increasing in popularity throughout the United States. This is a practical choice especially for someone with a small budged, burials in this day and seems more unnecessary and obsolete in a society of growing population and
Facing the increased financial stress of the recession, families are more frequently choosing cremation. Cremation rates have increased in all 50 states (Sanburn, Rise of the Ashes, para. 8). When the cost of signaling is no longer affordable, the acceptable minimum cost of signaling decreases. Cremation has been an option in the United States since 1876 (para. 4). During the 1960s, the rate hovered around 3% (para.7). In 2008, just before the recession, the rate was 36.2%; by 2011, every state was performing more cremations than they had the year before (para. 8). When inflation and cost of living increased following the recession, standard burials, with the vault, embalmment, etc. became less financially viable, and other solutions had the chance to rise in prominence. Cremations, currently cost around $3,250 with memorial service, and families may opt for direct cremation without a service, an option which can cost up to $1,000 less (“Statistics,” 2014). By opting for cremation instead of burial, families can save approximately $5,000. According to a Funeral and Memorial Information Council survey, cost was a primary incentive for choosing cremation, followed by customization, eco-friendliness, geography, and changing religious perspective (CANA Annual Statistics Report, 2011,
In the Jewish faith, death is seen as a natural process. Jewish rituals surrounding death focus on showing respect for the deceased and consolation for the living. After death, the body is never left alone. The body is laid on the floor, covered, and candles are lit with the “shomerim” meaning “guards” watching over the body. Many Jewish communities have a burial society, called the chevra kaddisha (holy society), that clean the body and wrap the body in a plain linen shroud. The body can not be cremated or embalmed and autopsies are discouraged. Coffins are not required according to Jewish customs, but if one is used, there must be holes drilled into them, so they come in contact with the ground. The dead are placed in a plain casket and buried within 24 hours, before sunset, on the day of death. Jewish mourning traditions begin grief with the tearing of one’s clothing (Rich, 1996). Mourners “cut their clothing with a razor- on the left for a parent; on the right for a spouse, child, or sibling- to symbolize the tear in life that death has produced (cite textbook, pg 358).” After burial of the deceased, a healing meal is made for the family, which is followed by the next phase of mourning, known as shiva. Shiva is a seven day ritual in where mourners sit on low stools or on the floor, do not wear shoes, do not shave, do not work, do not bathe, have sex, or eat meat, and remain in the same clothes they tore at the time of death. Following shiva, mourners do not attend social gathering for 30 days, this is known as shloshim. If someone is mourning a parents death, the “shloshim” is expanded to one year (Rich, 1996).
Most people dismiss anything having to do with death out of fear. The uncertainty some associate with death has caused Funeral Service to be a particularly taboo subject in society. One may assume funeral directors are the sketchy personalities enthralled with death, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Over the years, Funeral Service has progressed and become a larger industry. Funeral Service has changed in its history over time, affecting the education required, and the job they do today.
Robert Frost’s “Home Burial” is a very well written poem about a husband’s and a wife’s loss. Their first born child has died recently. Amy and her husband deal with their loss in two very different ways, which cause problems. Amy seems like she confines their child to the grave. She never seems to le go of the fact she has lost her first child. Amy’s husband buried their child himself. This allowed him to let go and live a normal life. Amy does not understand how he could do what he did. Therefore, she wants to have nothing to do with him, especially talk to him. He doesn’t understand why she can’t let go, and why she won’t talk to him. He tries to get her to tell him why, but she just wants to go to someone else. She will not talk to him or let him talk to her because he always speaks offensively. This lack of communication was there before the death, which I think will be the downfall of their marriage. Frost’s use of imagery and tone allow the reader to see and feel what Amy and her husband are going through.
... In the next portion of my ten page paper, I will explore the other topics stated in my thesis. My final paper will merely be a continuation of the topics that I have written about in this paper. I will explore and go into depth with the topic of human embalmment and its significance to the work of modern medicine today. I would also like to compare modern day embalment for funerals with embalment rituals used in Ancient Egypt.
The mummification process from A.D. 600 still has a huge impact on embalming today. This process has helped scientists make out what Egyptians looked like 3,000 years ago. The whole process took 70 days to complete. Specialized Priests who knew a lot about anatomy and rituals were embalmers. The first step of the process was to remove the internal organs. These were removed to prevent hurried decaying. The brain was removed by using an instrument with a hook that was inserted in the nostrils. If this was not done carefully the face could be...
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