Have you recently lost a loved one? Are you trying to plan for what happens after you pass away?
Over fifty per cent of Americans and over seventy per cent of Canadians who passed away in 2020 were cremated, and these numbers are rising.
Read on to learn how to choose unique cremation urns.
1. How You Plan to Use the Urn
You’ll need to begin by thinking about how you plan to use the burial urn. You’ll want something different from the urn if you plan to display it in your home or if you plan to use it to scatter the ashes. If you plan to divide the ashes among multiple family members, you’ll need multiple keepsake urns.
Ask yourself these questions when you’re buying urns for ashes. That way, you’ll be able to find an urn that suits your purposes.
2. Look at Designs
Urns come in a wide variety of different designs, with lots of different engravings. You can get urn designs based on your loved one’s interests. If your loved one was a sports fan, for example, get them an urn with engravings of the equipment from their favourite sport or the insignia of their home team.
Or, you can pick an urn based on your religious affiliation. There are lots of urns available with crosses, angels, or prayer hands. If you want something more personal, look into customizable urns that you can design yourself.
You’ll also need to decide on the material of the urn. Urns can be made of materials such as metal, glass, wood, or ceramics.
3. Pricing
You can find urns regardless of your price range, but it’s important to have some idea of what your budget is before you end up over your head. The materials you choose for the urn can affect the cost, as can the intricacy of the design.
You may want to look into multiple providers, to see what’s offered in your price range and what your choices are. Urns can range in cost from as low as fifty dollars, or as high as thousands of dollars, so there are lots of options.
4. Choose a Size
Choosing an appropriate size is necessary when you’re choosing an urn. You need to make sure the urn you choose has enough room for the ashes, after all. A standard urn can hold around 200 cubic inches, but what size you need will change based on the size of the person that is being cremated.
If you’re planning to keep the urn in a columbarium niche at a cemetery, make sure you ask the cemetery what their size requirements are. Most places have strict rules.
Unique Cremation Urns: Make Your Choice
Hopefully, you know now how to choose unique cremation urns to help honour your loved one effectively. It may be emotional, but you’ll eventually find something that works.
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