Maintaining The Urn At Home After Cremation Services
If you decide to keep a loved one’s urn at home after their cremation services, the professionals at Donohue Funeral Home have tips on maintaining that space.
Cremation services in Upper Darby, PA are popular for a variety of reasons. One of the things people appreciate is the fact that you can do whatever you’d like with your loved one’s remains. There’s also no timeline on the decision so you can keep the urn at home for as long as you want and then bury it or scatter ashes later. You can also keep the urn at home long-term. Whether you keep the remains at home for now, or forever, there are things you are going to want to do to maintain the area in which you display that urn. Here are a few suggestions from the professionals.
Choose A Secure Urn
If you are going to have your loved one’s urn in your home, you are going to want to have a secure product for the remains. You want your loved one’s remains to be safe and secure at all times. That means an urn that has a top that perhaps screws or snaps on so it won’t easily spill. You might also want that urn to be one that is made of materials that won’t break. You could choose metal, wood, or a number of other things. You will want your urn to be secure in case anything happens to it.
Place The Urn Out Of Heavy Traffic Areas
Things can happen, even to sturdy, secure urns, so you might want to place it out of the heavy traffic areas of the home. It can be somewhere that is busy, if it is up and out of the way so it is still safe. You don’t want it to be on the floor in the corner of the entryway, for example, where it could get knocked over, bumped, and disturbed regularly. You want to protect this product, and the precious person that is inside it.
Create A Memorial Around The Urn
If you are keeping the urn at home, either for now or long-term, you might want to create a memorial around it. Decide on a location, on a table, shelf, in a china hutch, or on the mantel. You can place the urn first, then you can put a picture of your loved one nearby. You can then put other small things around it that remind you of that loved one. Whether you keep the urn in that location for good or not, you can keep the memorial up in that area.
Clean The Area
Houses get dusty, that’s just the way things go. As much as you might hate cleaning, when you dust and clean other areas of the house, you are going to want to make sure the urn area is also clean. You can wipe down the urn and dust it, too, to keep that area looking nice so you can honor your loved one well after their cremation services in Upper Darby, PA. Your home can be a nice place for your loved one to rest long-term.
