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  • Family owned and operated for over two decades
  • Compassionate community service close to home
  • Heritage cremation serves all faiths
  • Simple - Affordable - Dignified
  • 24 hour-a-day availability
  • Only $695 - $1395

Cremation Services Include

  • Transportation of the deceased to the crematory
  • Obtaining certified copies of death certificate
  • Assistance in filing for VA & Social Security Benefits
  • Rigid container (for the return of the cremated remains)
Only $695 - $1395

Package Pricing does not include: cash advance items, state fees for permits, certified copies of the death certificates, alternative cremation container, sales tax or newspaper charges. You will be able to see final cost prior to payment.

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Veteran's Benefits

If your loved one was in the military they may qualify for a burial with Military Funeral Honors or (MFH). This Veterans benefit includes an Honor Guard detail of not less than two Armed Services members at the burial or memorial, burial in a Government cemetery, and a grave marker.

  Social Security Benefits

Family members of the deceased may be entitled to receive Social Security benefits if the deceased worked long enough and had Social Security taken out of their paycheck...

How to Give a Eulogy

The eulogy or speech given at a memorial service or funeral does not have to follow any specific guide on how to write a eulogy, but it is helpful if you know where to start.

How to Benefit from Illinois Cremation Services

Illinois Cremation Services will help you choose the right funeral service and cremation for the loved one that has left you recently, understanding your grief and personal worries.

At such a very difficult time in your life when all the people close to you are grieving during the bereavement, there are a whole range of questions you need to ask of cremation services in Illinois to ensure that you do the best for the deceased.

You can arrange a viewing or a funeral service or choose a memorial service as part of your planning with Illinois cremation services. A viewing allows close friends and family to share a last few moments with the deceased. This also gives family and friends the opportunity to comfort each other and share in each other's loss.

Should you choose a memorial following a cremation, it provides Illinois cremation services with the time and care to suggest and arrange a funeral service that has been personalized to the character of the deceased. By choosing music, whether religious or not, that was such a delight to the person during their lifetime, you are allowing friends and relatives to express their sadness, but at the time when all the good can also be shared.

Are Cremations Expensive in Illinois?

Around one quarter of all people select a cremation service in the state, compared to an average of over 50% across the US. The numbers are increasing rapidly each year as people are finding that a cremation service is far more acceptable when it has been arranged by Illinois cremation services, in direct comparison to the harrowing worries of seeing a body lowered into a grave.

Cremation services in Illinois will provide all that you need for far less than the cost of a traditional burial funeral. With a cremation you do not have to purchase an expensive casket, gravesite for the coffin and the body or pay cemetery fees and later on, the cost of purchasing and maintaining a headstone.

You will find that Illinois cremation services provide an environmentally friendly option for the passing and ending of a person's life through cremation, because ashes that are scattered on land or across water do not add a carbon footprint to the environment, whereas with a burial, land is disturbed and is filled with an expensive wooden coffin and metal handles.

What about the Ashes?

After a deceased has been cremated, Illinois cremation services will explain how the ashes of a person will weigh between 4-6 pounds and be presented to the nominated person in either an urn supplied by the crematorium or from a private selection or perhaps a family item.

The ashes can be scattered in church grounds or in a graveyard or they can be buried. Illinois cremation services will be able to explain that the cremains, or the ashes of the deceased, are extremely portable and where family members are likely to move away they can easily take the ashes with them.

Cremation services in Illinois will explain that the ashes can be divided between family members where some may choose to keep the cremains, while other family members may wish to scatter the ashes in a private and personal location.

Cremation Advantages in Illinois

Many people will choose Illinois cremation services because a cremation is more convenient than a burial. For children particularly, not being faced with a memory of seeing a body lowered into the ground will help young people adjust to the loss of a family member because they will be able to concentrate on the quality of the funeral service and not the committal of the body.

It is much easier for family to carefully store and dispose of the ashes of the body in a timely manner, because they may wish to hold a memorial service when family members, that live across the country or abroad, have been able to travel or return to their home location. Cremation services in Illinois will explain that a burial or cremation must, by law, be completed in a very short period of time - often just a small number of days, after a person has died.

Holding a memorial service gives cremation services in Illinois the opportunity to help people to come together and share their grief which gives them the chance to comfort each other and find ways to begin living their lives without their dear friend.

What Happens During a Cremation in Illinois?

People are often surprised to hear, from cremation services in Illinois, that a body is cremated quickly, at extremely high temperatures and for about 2 hours. The crematorium will arrange for any metal items to be removed from the ashes before being placing them into the urn.

The majority of crematorium can arrange for a viewing of the coffin and the body moving into the furnace and to be there, for religious purposes, throughout the entire process, with prior arrangement with cremation services in Illinois.

Families will be sympathetically understood by people who are trying to help them throughout the entire process after somebody has died. Trying to make decisions about a funeral service are not easy, but will be compassionately discussed by cremation services in Illinois.