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Welcome SeaWinds Funeral Home to FHR

Advocate — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:11:07 +0000

Funeral Home Resource welcomes SeaWinds Funeral Home Melbourne, FL location to our Directory and Proud group of Funeral Home website clients. We’ve met personally with the staff and can say, without a doubt, it’s obvious there success is a result of their kindness and caring attitude.

Visit the website: Funeral Home Melbourne FL or Funeral Home Melbourne Florida

Women and Funerals

Advocate — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:40:22 +0000

Funeral Home Resource, one of the top destinations for users on Google searching for the term Funeral Home or Funeral Homes continuously strives to be the top resource for consumers looking for Funeral Related Information. We have been expanding our resource library and have recently added a section entitled Women and Funerals. We will continue to be building out some great content there and welcome your suggestions for additional areas of discussion.

Funeral Parlor

Advocate — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:53:19 +0000

Ever wondered just what a funeral parlor is? Our staff writer has put together an excellent article that you can read here.

Funeral Parlor

Don’t miss another one of our great articles on Funeral Planning and the Funeral Director. Read this article here:

Funeral Director and Funeral Planning

Funeral Checklist

Advocate — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:59:14 +0000

Being notified of the death of a close friend or family member can be devastating. I wanted to point out a link to one of the many articles on Funeral Home Resource that can make it easier to stay focused on taking care of all of the details surrounding a loss.

The Funeral Checklist provides an overview of the items you will want to consider. Find more Funeral Articles.

Funeral Home

Advocate — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:45:09 +0000

Many people ask me how they recommend I find choosing a funeral home. If you’re in a local community you can certainly rely on recommendations from others. I still recommend “interviewing” all of the local resources as this is one of the most important and memorable occasions in a lifetime and should be treated as such. Online directories, like Funeral Home Resource can provide a list of local funeral homes to make it easy to call ones that are close to you. Take notes during each of your calls and, if you can, schedule meetings in person.

Here is the link to a helpful checklist: Funeral Checklist

Find a Funeral Home

Advocate — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:19:17 +0000

If you haven’t noticed, Funeral Home Resource has made some substantial changes for the benefit of customers. It is now incredibly easy to Find a Funeral Home

Simply goto Funeral Home Resource, type in your zip, and you will automatically search all Funeral Homes within 30 miles.

Do Funeral Homes Handle Cremation

Advocate — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:11:30 +0000

Yes. Funeral Homes, Mortuaries, and Funeral Chapels all handle cremation. A funeral home, mortuary or funeral chapel may not have the equipment to handle a cremation on premises but will have a contact with a cremation company that can handle the entire cremation process.

Funeral Homes, Mortuaries, and Funeral Chapels can explain all your options available to you. Although cremation may be less expensive than the average funeral there is many options available and one must look at the arrangements as two. What are your options before one is cremated and what are your options after the cremation is completed.

As with any funeral home arrangements, one must choose which funeral home to handle the arrangements for them. I recommend a funeral home that you can trust and feel comfortable with the funeral director who will be handling all the arrangements. I also recommend pre arrangements or prepaying your funeral in advance and expressing your wishes to your funeral home of choice.

Do Funeral Homes Handle the Obituary?

Advocate — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:42:56 +0000

Yes. A funeral home, mortuary, or funeral chapel will handle contacting newspapers on your behalf. Most funeral homes will charge you exactly what they are charged by the newspaper. You can request to be carbon copied on the email so you will know that it has been handled exactly the way you want and to the newspapers of your choice.

Most funeral homes will also keep a copy on record should you ever need a copy and some even post them on there website.

When does a funeral home need to get paid?

Advocate — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:07:06 +0000

A funeral home, mortuary, or chapel expects to be paid in full at the arrangement time by check or credit card. Most funeral homes will also take an insurance assignment as a form of payment as well.

A funeral home will state that they expect payment in full when services are rendered. It is easier to handle payment at the arrangement conference because there is no surprises and if one can not afford the arrangements that would be the time to make necessary funeral arrangement changes.

This is a great reason to pre pay your funeral arrangements. If one makes pre paid arrangements this discussion is already taken care of.

What are cremated remains?

Advocate — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:16:40 +0000

Is the ash really ash? What are cremated remains?

Cremated remains or very fine bone fragments are the final product of the process of cremation.

Cremated remains are not “ash” at all. They are fine skeletal remains of the deceased. With the intense temperature and the cremation process what is left is bone fragments. These bone fragments are placed into a machine that reduces larger pieces of bone fragments into very fine pieces of bone known as cremated remains of the deceased.

Cremated remains or very fine bone fragments can vary in color depending on several factors, one being the cremation container that the deceased is cremated in. They can vary from a soft white to a dark gray color. Cremated remains or very fine bone fragments can vary in size or weight as well. Depending on the machine which reduces the larger bone fragments one’s cremated remains may have larger pieces of bone than having very fine pieces of bone.

Depending on the size of the deceased, the final product of cremated remains may be larger than another. After all it is skeletal remains, so obviously if one is taller and has larger skeletal mass one would have more bone fragments or cremated remains.