what to do with the ashes (cremated remains)

There are a few choices at a cemetery:

• bury in a grave
• put the urn in a niche (space) in a mausoleum or columbarium
• scatter in a scattering garden 

Many people choose to keep them at home. If that's special to you but you don't want people to know it's an urn, there are now hundreds or thousands of choices of urns that don't look like urns. Go to our page called Products to see some of our favorites. 

People usually scatter in a place that's significant to them or their loved one. It might be a favorite park, trail, lake or other place. Bodies of water usually have a requirement that scattering has to take place at least three nautical miles from shore. There may be laws in your state about parks, trails, forestlands and other places where scattering is not allowed. Check before you scatter as people have been fined for doing it in prohibited places.