Five Steps to Take When Choosing Sugar Land, TX Cremation Services
Cremation is gaining in popularity as an alternative to earth burial because it is easier to arrange and gives the family much more freedom to plan a memorial at their pace. You’ll have many key choices to make when choosing cremation services in Sugar Land, TX, and Davis Greenlawn Funeral Chapels and Cemeteries is here to help smooth the process for you. Here are the five key steps you shouldn’t ignore to ensure your family’s choice of cremation goes smoothly.
Step One – Pick Your Facility
There are many services offering cremation, ranging from stand-alone crematories to full-service funeral homes. We recommend the latter, because you’re getting all the services you need under one roof. Whether you want a basic cremation followed by a self-directed service or a full memorial, package, you’ll be guided through the process by an experienced funeral director and accommodating staff.
Step Two – Pick Your Package
At Davis Greenlawn, we have cremation services suitable for every need and budget. Many of our clients choose our basic cremation package, which handles the process and returns the ashes to you in a basic cremation container in short order. This is ideal if you want to plan an independent memorial service at your own pace. But if you want a full-service memorial including visitation and a reception, we can arrange that through one of our packages.
Step Three – Choose a Final Resting Place
When you choose our cremation services, you’ll receive a basic cremation container automatically, but that’s only the beginning. We offer a line of hundreds of artisan urns coming in a variety of styles and patterns, ideal for those who want to keep the ashes in a place of pride on the mantle. If you’d prefer the ashes to stay in a place you can visit at our facilities, they can be buried in a cremation vault or one of our ceremonial cremation benches.
Step Four – The Memorial
If you choose one of our full packages, you’ll get the full use of our funeral chapels ideal for holding a reception and celebration of life. These memorial services can be held before the cremation with the body available for viewing, or after with the cremation vault or urn at the center of the room. This memorial will be arranged between you and our staff to include all important details, and can be scheduled at a later date if you choose to have the cremation immediately.
Step Five – Scattering Plans?
After taking the ashes home, many of our clients eventually choose to do a final goodbye by scattering the ashes in a meaningful location. This can be over a cliff, into the water, or in a location that the deceased loved in life. Scattering ashes is legal in almost all public locations, and can be arranged with many private locations like sports arenas. We offer a selection of scattering urns that allow a controlled release for easy scattering.
The process of great cremation services in Sugar Land, TX begins with a call to Davis Greenlawn Funeral Chapels and Cemeteries. Contact us today or drop by our offices for a consultation.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the cheapest way to be cremated?
A direct cremation is the cheapest form or type of cremation. With direct cremation, there are no additional costs for a funeral service (although you can still get one if you want to). A direct cremation only involves transportation and cremation of the body and returning of the ashes to the family.
Who can authorize cremation in Texas?
In Texas, any adult person in the next degree of kinship in the order named by law to inherit the estate of the decedent can authorize the cremation of the deceased.
Is it illegal to spread ashes in Texas?
Texas law allows you to scatter ashes over “uninhabited public land, over a public waterway or sea, or on the private property of a consenting owner. If the container is non-biodegradable, you must remove the ashes from the container before scattering them.
