Cremation Options

What to Do with a Loved One’s Ashes

With traditional burial, a loved one is buried in the ground or entombed in a mausoleum, but cremation offers families many additional options.

Among the many choices, you can also create a cemetery memorial, which might be in the form of a niche, a columbarium, a bench or another type of property.

Families who choose cremation often find that having a permanent place to visit, reflect and remember their loved ones brings comfort. Catholic Cemeteries offer a wide range of customizable options for cremation, from cremation gardens to niches and more.

Families choosing cremation for their loved one’s final disposition want to permanently honor and remember their loved one just as much as families choosing burial. Permanent memorialization creates lasting remembrance and serves to preserve a family’s heritage for present and future generations.

Cremation burial options range from in-ground burials in a family plot or small plots in a cremation garden to above ground options like columbarium niches.

A cremation garden offers families a permanent resting place for those choosing cremation. They also provide a beautiful, serene destination for families and friends to visit their loved ones. Click here for more information on cremation gardens.

A columbarium is a room or structure designed as a final resting place to house cremated remains. Columbaria are permanent structures with banks of cremation niches that hold cremation urns. Catholic Cemeteries offer both glass-front niches and granite-front niches for you to choose from. A glass-front niche allows you to see the cremation urns and any personal mementos that you wish to place that best reflects the life of your loved one. Granite-front niches can be engraved or memorialized with a bronze plaque and adorned with floral vases and a cameo picture potrait.