Faqs

If you pay taxes, you may have to pay taxes on the interest your trust earns. Should you need to qualify for benefits, your trust may be made irrevocable. The prices for cremation plans and other [...]

You join Cardinal Cremation Society. You pay today’s price for the plan you select. You pay Cardinal Cremation Society by cash, check, or credit card. Your funds are deposited in a trust account [...]

You download the application You fill it out You may if you wish choose your package You mail the application and check to us You are added to our membership You will receive your membership card [...]

Yes. By completing a Funeral Planning Declaration Form, you may authorize your own cremation OR name a designee to carry out your wishes. After completion of the form, only you can change it. The [...]

Because cremation is an irreversible act, state legislation stipulates who may authorize your cremation. Your legal next of kin must provide written permission before cremation can take place. [...]

Cremated remains may be placed for permanent memorialization in a traditional cemetery space, a cremation garden, in a specially configured mausoleum space, kept at home, or scattered.  Some [...]

An option offered by Cardinal Cremation Society is for those designated by the family be permitted to attend the placement of the cremation container into the cremator and the beginning of the [...]

Some religions do not recommend cremation; others prefer it. Most permit individual choice.  Among those not permitting cremation are Orthodox Judaism, Islam, Eastern Orthodox, and [...]

The basic reasons are personal.  Some choose cremation for environmental or economic reasons.  For others it is simply an individual preference.  Others follow religious beliefs.

Cremation is the process of using heat and flame to reduce the human body to ash, bone, and mineral fragments.  It is an alternative to burying the body in a casket.  The remaining fragments are [...]