Cremation Service: You can still go traditional
Posted on January 29th, 2019 by | Leave a comment
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Once upon a time, families who opted to cremate their loved ones usually chose the option because they didn’t want the expense and ceremony associated with a traditional funeral service and burial. But times have changed. At our Glendora mortuary, approximately 70 percent of mourners choose cremation over burial. Their reasons include everything from honoring […]
Continue Reading Cremation or Cremation Plus?
Posted on January 22nd, 2019 by | Leave a comment
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Many people think that only two options exist relative to the disposition of their loved ones’ remains: burial, which includes casket-viewing-funeral-graveside-and-the-whole-shebang – or simple ceremony-less cremation. But those are just two in a laundry list of choices available to people making final arrangements for someone who has died. Circa 2019, options are basically endless. In […]
Continue Reading The Top 5 Benefits of Burial
Posted on December 12th, 2018 by | Leave a comment
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Since we’ve worked in the death industry since 1996, we’ve seen the preferential pendulum swing. People used to scorn cremation in favor of burial. Today, people tend to prefer cremation at a rate of 51.6 percent to 48.4. In fact, in Los Angeles County, where our funeral home is located, that number is as high […]
Continue Reading Be Thankful You Aren’t Dead
Posted on November 21st, 2018 by | Leave a comment
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People routinely discuss the many reasons we all have to be grateful each Thanksgiving season. Since our profession places us around death day in, day out, the main reason seems obvious to us. The thing you should most be thankful for? You are alive! But what about if you have suffered the death of a […]
Continue Reading Death Masks Part 2
Posted on October 30th, 2018 by | Leave a comment
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Part 2 in a 2-Part Series In this, the final post in our ongoing October series about macabre death-related events we wanted to cover something that is unusual as well as interesting – death masks. To read part one of this, click here. As explained in Encyclopedia Britannica, a death mask is a wax or plaster […]
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