Funeral Casket Urns Tell A Story
The way we lay our dead to rest says a lot about a civilization. When we think of ancient Egypt, the thought that comes to most people’s mind is that of the pyramids. The graves of the Pharaohs have withstood the test of time and tell us a lot about the Egyptians. For many years in this country, casket manufacturing was a local industry and most towns had their own casket builder.
As we moved away from the wood and cloth caskets to the metal ones the process could no longer be done in the back of a cabinet shop and casket manufacturing became a regional enterprise. Today with more and more people moving to cremation, an new industry has grown up around funeral casket urns.
Western cultures tend to place more and more value on life. When a person dies many people insist on a service or a funeral that marks that crossing over point. For a variety of reasons more and more people are seeking cremation instead of the metal casket in a sealed vault.
The remains are then placed in funeral casket urns prior to their final disposition. These funeral urns are attractively made and can be displayed in the home, buried, or they can be lain to rest in a columbarium. The columbarium is a mausoleum designed to hold the remains of cremated individuals in their funeral urns.
Since the funeral casket urns are often on display they have developed their own unique style and design. They can be constructed of wood, marble, bronze or almost any other material that the family desires. The outer surface can be engraved with the person’s name and vital information. Unlike caskets, they can also have a short history of the person on them. Many times they will have an image of something that was dear to the individual such as a motorcycle or a tennis racquet.
In the distant future, archaeologists will find that we had respect for our dead when they will complete their excavations and find the funeral casket urns in which we have placed our departed relatives. These, like the Egyptians’ pyramids will tell a story about who we were and what we believed in.
