Advantages and Disadvantages of Cremation

By mike • July 16th, 2010

Many folks these days are choosing to have their loved ones cremated. This is usually an economic choice as opposed to a choice resulting from a set of beliefs. Below are a few of the advantages and disadvantages of choosing cremation for your loved ones.

Advantages of Cremation

1.  Most everyone knows that cremation is less expensive than traditional burial. Direct cremation (without any memorial services prior to the cremation) is the least expensive option. Of course, there are options you can choose that can drastically change your price structure, sothose details should be discussed with your funeral director.

2.Cremation gives the family many options: a loved one’s cremains can be interred in a grave, put in a mausoleum, spread over an ocean or a field, or be kept at home in an urn.

3. Some people are simply not emotional people and choose not to have full services which may be emotionally hard on them. Cremation seems to be a good solution for these people.

Disadvantages of Cremation:

1. The biggest and most emotionally difficult  issue we hear about are that there’s no place to go and “visit” your loved one and to grieve.

2. If the family doesn’t get along, it is often hard to agree on choices. Do we put the cremains in an urn or spread them over the Atlantic Ocean? If you put the cremains in an urn, who gets the urn? If you want to “split up” the cremains among family members, who chooses which family members get them and which ones are left out?

3.There are also issues of religous beliefs to be considered, and only your family can discern how your beliefs translate in this area. We are not experts in how different faiths view cremation, so please contact a minister within your own faith to discern whether cremation is right for your family.

As always, we at Cincinnati Monument are here to help, so please call us with any questions or comments you have.

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