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What Is the Cremation Process and How Does It Play Out?
Memorial Funeral Home • June 7, 2020
Cremation services have become so popular that most people know what the cremation process is. If you’re confused about this process, here is how it plays out from start to finish.
Now that more than 50 percent of people are choosing cremation services in Pharr, TX
over burial services, there are a lot of people who are well aware of what the cremation process is. Cremation is no longer the taboo topic that it once was. But if you’ve never looked into cremation yourself or helped plan a cremation for a loved one, you might not be familiar with the cremation process. It’s the process that’s used to carry out a person’s cremation from start to finish. Here is how it plays out.
A person’s body is properly identified.
First things first: It’s obviously very important for a crematory to check, double check, and triple check that they’re cremating the right person’s body during the cremation process. With this in mind, a crematory will start the process by properly identifying a person’s body and making sure they’ve obtained the proper authorization from their family. They won’t go any further than this until they’re convinced that they have everything in good order.
The body is prepared for cremation and put into a cremation container.
Once a person’s body has been identified and a family has signed off on their cremation, a crematory will prepare the body for the cremation to take place. This often involves removing any jewelry or other metal pieces from a person’s body and putting a person into the clothing that their family picked out. It also involves putting a person’s body into a cremation container, which is usually just a big wooden box that will be cremated along with them.
The cremation container is placed into a cremation chamber and cremated.
After a person’s body is inside of a cremation container, the entire container will be put into a cremation chamber for the actual cremation. Over the course of the next two or three hours, that chamber will heat up to anywhere from 1,400 to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. This will result in a person’s body being cremated and broken down to a small pile of bone fragments. A crematory will then run a magnet over the fragments to retrieve any metal pieces that may have made it through the cremation.
A person’s remains are ground up and given to their family.
At the end of the cremation process, all that will be left of a person’s body will be some bone fragments. A crematory will use a special machine to grind these fragments up into cremated remains. The remains will be transferred to a cremation urn and given to the person’s family. The family will then be free to take the remains home with them, bury them, scatter them, or do whatever else they want with them. This will conclude the Pharr, TX cremation process.
Want to find out more about the cremation process
? Turn to a trusted Pharr, TX funeral home to ask any questions you might have about it. A funeral director from Memorial Funeral Home
can speak with you at length about cremation and all that it entails. Contact us today to obtain the information you’re looking for.
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