planning things out for your family 

Planning your own cremation services in Chicago, IL is a truly wonderful thing to do for your family. Even if you don’t care so much what your final services are like, planning things out for your family members relieves them of many burdens. First, it takes away the guesswork. They don’t have to wonder what you would have wanted and whether or not they are doing the right things for you. Second, it removed the planning process from their shoulders. They are already going to be grieving, which can be very hard. Having to plan at the same time can feel impossible. Another thing you can do for them in advance, if you so choose, is to pay for your own cremation. You might already know that cremation is much less expensive than traditional funeral services. And that might be why you chose it. But why are the costs so much lower? Here are a few details to help you figure that part out.

No Casket Or Headstone Needed

Do a quick online search and you can see how much an average casket and/or headstone will cost. They can cost a small amount or a large amount, depending on what you want. But if you use neither of those products, those are two costs that are completely taken out of the situation. You save that much when you use cremation because you don’t need either of those products.

No Grave Needed Or Services To Open And Close It

If you have a traditional burial, you’ll have to find a plot in a cemetery and there are usually costs that go around it, like opening and closing the grave before and after the burial and possibly even maintaining the plot later. Those are also things that you do not have to have when you go with cremation. Those costs are completely gone and you save that much more on the process you have chosen.

No Embalming Or Preparing Services

With cremation, if you plan to be direct about it and have it happen soon after your death, there doesn’t have to be any embalming or preparing of the body. You don’t need anyone to make you look natural for a visitation or prepare you in any other way. Those services, which are necessary often for burial, are things you can take off the cost list for cremation as well.

When it comes down to it, cremation costs less simply because there are far fewer products and services included in the process. When you go with cremation services in Chicago, IL , it is often easier to pay for the process in advance when you plan because the services themselves are much more affordable. If you decide to go this direction, the professionals at Chicagoland Cremation Options are happy to go over packages with you. The packages include everything you need for the process, but you can add to them or customize them in any way you’d like to make your services truly unique.