There are reports coming out of New York City that some in the Funeral Homes are using Pet Visitations as a loss leader to get clients.
This is indication of hows hard times may be for Funeral Homes in Funeral Industry. Difficult times. to Say the least.
Pet "Visitation"and Pet Burial are a loss leader for some funeral homes.
“A media story on National Public Radio recently reported on housepet burials in the New York metropolitan area. According to the piece, basic interment at area pet cemeteries runs about $1,500, although big sticker mausoleums have also been built to provide eternal rest for housebroken animal companions. Ostentation thy name is Spot.
There is also a trend toward visitation of the deceased dog, cat, budgie or iguana at human mortuaries. It was described as a loss leader for the funeral homes, which reportedly charge a couple hundred bucks for a tasteful service, all the while figuring a way to incorporate the pet hereafter into their line.”-
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The Veterans administration has opened a new National Cemetery in Pennsylvannia. In order to handle an increasing number of deceased veterans, Congress has ordered National Cemeteries to be opened across the United States.
Many longstanding National Cemeteries across America are out of space.
In the USA Veterans are entitled to a free burial in a National Cemetery. Here is some information on the latest Veteran Cemetery opening.
WASHINGTON – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced the opening of the 131st national cemetery with the first burials taking place Jan. 20 at Washington Crossing National Cemetery in Newtown, Pa.
“With the opening of this new national shrine, many thousands of Pennsylvania and New Jersey Veterans and their families will have interment options available nearby, in a setting that is worthy of their service,” said Secretary Shinseki. “Providing lasting tributes to their sacrifices is one of VA’s most honorable missions, and one we are proud to fulfill.”
Administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the new 205-acre national cemetery in the Philadelphia area will serve Veterans’ needs for at least the next 50 years. The cemetery, which will serve approximately 580,000 Veterans in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, is located in Bucks County, north of Philadelphia, about three miles northwest of Interstate 95 and less than three miles from Washington Crossing Historic Park.
In January 2008, VA awarded a design contract to Cairone & Kaupp Inc. of Philadelphia. VA has completed a 12-acre early burial area with temporary facilities, which will be followed by a second, larger construction stage of the project.
When that stage is completed, the 64-acre development will provide 15,500 full-casket gravesites, including 15,100 pre-placed crypts, 6,500 in-ground cremation sites and 4,100 columbarium niches.
The new cemetery will also include an administration and public information center complex and public restrooms, a maintenance facility, a cemetery entrance area, a flag assembly area and committal shelters for funeral services. Other infrastructure design elements include roadways, landscaping, utilities and irrigation.
The state’s other VA cemeteries are Philadelphia National Cemetery, Indiantown Gap National Cemetery and the National Cemetery of the Alleghenies. The Philadelphia National Cemetery no longer has burial space.-
Veterans with a discharge issued under conditions other than dishonorable, their spouses and eligible dependent children can be buried in a VA national cemetery. Also eligible are military personnel who die on active duty, their spouses…..via www1.va.gov
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The easiest way to come in under the average cost of a funeral is to choose cremation.Before one chooses cremation one should understand the cremation process. Cremation is an irreversible process. This video explains the cremation option(details on cremations) as we return to review a funeral cost basic:”cremation”. You can still have a burial when you choose cremation.
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The archbishop of Port Au Prince Funeral took place in a parking lot funeral while most of 111,000 Haiti’s Earthquake Dead went to mass graves.
Archbishop of Haiti Funeral- Photo Credit-Shawn Thew/EPA
” Hundreds of Haitians — some still bandaged, many in tears — gathered in the parking lot of the destroyed cathedral here Saturday for the funeral of the archbishop of Port-au-Prince.
Revered as a humble servant of the poor, Msgr. Joseph Serge Miot, 63, died as so many others did: crushed by his own home. Priests and his relatives emphasized that his death was one among multitudes.
The vicar general of the main cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Msgr. Charles Benoit, died with him, and on Saturday the two clergymen lay in a pair of white caskets just a few hundred yards from the rubble that killed them.
Bishop Lafontant, meanwhile, implored the country’s Christians to see the cataclysm as an opportunity for growth.
“God had something to say and he said it here,” the bishop said. “He did it because he wants Haiti to become a new country.”
For most, however, grief and exhaustion still reigned. As the hearse moved out of the parking lot, the sister of Monsignor Benoit slapped the window, cried and screamed.via www.nytimes.com
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Here is significant video of a Haiti mass grave , a funeral home in Haiti with dead on the floor, and an extreme Haitian Funeral |Burial of an Earthquake Victim. Mass Graves, Mass Burials and the treatment of the Dead in Haiti area an atrocity.
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