Cremations

Cremations

Cremation is an On-Site Service we offer at Joyner’s Funeral Home and Crematory.

Our professional Funeral Directors or Pre-Planning Director can assist you with all the aspects of choosing cremation for you or your loved one.

A few facts about cremation:


Cremation cannot occur until there is a signed death certificate by a doctor.


There is a 24-hour waiting period before cremation.


This alleviates misidentification and allows time for the family to reconsider, if they choose.


If you choose cremation for your loved one you can still have a service. You also have the following:


  • You have numerous options for the final resting place.
  • You can place the cremated remains / ashes in a special urn to display at home.
  • You can bury an urn in a cemetery providing a permanent resting place where family and friends can visit.
  • You can place a portion of the cremated remains / ashes in an urn and a portion in a columbarium niche, providing a permanent location where you can pay your respects.
  • You can scatter the cremated remains / ashes.


Urns can be placed in a Memory Capsule vault and friends and family members can also choose to have personal keepsake of your cremated remains/ ashes.

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Rental Casket

A rental casket can be used when you want to have a traditional casket or a viewing at the funeral home. A rental casket is a casket that has a removable interior. The body is placed in a simple fiberboard box and the box is placed inside the casket, giving the appearance that the body is actually in the casket. In fact, the body never touches the casket, and the wooden box is easily removed after the service.

The following information is from the Cremation Association of North America:


Following the Rules

There are a number of issues involved in transporting cremated human remains that require advance planning and informed decisions. You may need a variety of documents (death certificate, certificate of cremation, various authorization forms, etc.) and the assistance of a licensed funeral director to send and/or receive the cremated remains.


The following is intended only as an overview of the process and not as a comprehensive documentation of all requirements.

Transporting by Air

Most airlines will allow you to transport cremated remains, either as air cargo, or as carry-on or checked luggage (traveling with you). Whether shipping as air cargo or as carry-on/checked luggage, consider all of the following steps:


  1. Check with the airline to determine their exact policies on either shipping or handling as luggage. Some airlines will not accept cremated remains in checked luggage while others may only accept it as checked luggage. Some airlines require seven days notice before shipping if handled as air cargo. In all cases the contents should be identified as cremated human remains.
  2. Review the Transportation Security Administration requirements and additional guidelines which require that the container must be scannable (a container returning an opaque image will not be permitted through security, either for checked luggage or for carry-on luggage). See their related blog post here.
  3. Arrive early to ensure adequate time for security clearance.
  4. Carry the Death certificate, Certificate of Cremation or other appropriate documentation with you (and consider attaching copies to the container), and
  5. Make sure to check with a licensed funeral director both at your origin of travel and destination to determine if there are local laws to be considered.

Transporting Internationally

There are even more issues involved in bringing cremated remains from…or taking them to…another country. For example, Germany requires that a licensed cemetery receive cremated remains sent to Germany…and that a licensed funeral director be involved in sending them to Germany. In addition to the steps outlined above, you should start by:


  1. Contacting the Consulate(s) for the country you are taking cremated remains to or from; identify their specific rules and legal requirements. Note: you can often find this information on the website for the country… but it may also require a call.
  2. Some countries will have additional authorizations that are required. Your contact with the Embassy should be able to provide you with the forms, although you may need to involve a licensed funeral director or even legal counsel in order to complete the information required.
  3. Allow even more time for this process — two weeks at a minimum — as there can be a number of steps involved.
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