Why Choose Permanent Placement?

Securing a Lasting Legacy

While cremation has become an increasingly popular choice, the fundamental human need for a lasting memorial remains.

The principle of permanent placement, which has guided funeral practices for millennia, ensures that a loved one's memory is secure, honored, and accessible for generations. Leaving an urn at home, while often done with the best intentions, can unfortunately lead to a forgotten legacy. Over time, urns can be misplaced, left behind during a move, or even end up in estate sales or storage, severing the tangible link to a loved one.

Permanent Placement Options for Cremated Remains:

By choosing a permanent placement option, families ensure their loved one's memory is secure, honored, and accessible for generations. Modern cemeteries are innovating to provide diverse and dignified choices that create a lasting legacy.

Cremation Garden Burials: These burial spaces are dedicated to urns within a beautiful garden setting. They offer a traditional, grounded sense of permanence and provide a serene location for remembrance.

Scattering Gardens: For those who prefer the idea of scattering, a dedicated Scattering Garden provides a timeless, natural, and respectful location. A name can be added to a memorial plaque, ensuring that a physical marker exists for future generations to visit and reflect.

Communal and Individual Niches: These above-ground structures offer secure, permanent homes for urns in beautifully designed settings, with options to fit your family's needs.

Columbarium Niches: A classic and elegant option within a larger wall, ideal for a single urn or an entire family.
Family Niches: A private, dedicated space designed to hold multiple urns (up to four), allowing families to be memorialized together.

Ossuaries: A respectful and communal option, an ossuary is a below-ground vault for cremated remains. A name can be placed on a communal Legacy Wall, ensuring the individual's memory is honored and preserved in a secure location.

Choosing one of these permanent placement options ensures that a loved one's legacy is not only preserved but also becomes a part of a larger community and a beautiful, serene space for remembrance.

Choosing one of these permanent placement options ensures that a loved one's legacy is not only preserved but also becomes a part of a larger community and a beautiful, serene space for remembrance.

Hollywood Memorial Park & Cemetery in Union, NJ understands the profound importance of honoring lives for your loved ones. We offer all these options to provide comfort to the living, knowing that their loved one's memory is safe and will be honored for eternity.

We are here to listen and guide you through our diverse options, ensuring your loved one's memory is honored in a way that feels right to you. Please reach out to our team to learn more.

FAQs

What is the purpose of a funeral?

A funeral or memorial service provides an opportunity for the living to show respect for the deceased and pay tribute to their life. It provides a framework to freely and openly express our beliefs, feelings, and thoughts about the death of our loved one. It gives us permission to grieve our loss, share in solidarity, and gain strength from others who are experiencing the same loss.
What are the choices for funeral services?

The four main types of funeral services include the traditional funeral service, the memorial service, the committal service, and the affirmation or celebration of life service.
Can you still have a funeral if you choose cremation?

Yes, cremation or burial is merely the disposition of the body. Funeral services are to honor and remember your loved one, regardless of disposition.
Can I plan in advance if I choose cremation?

Pre-arranging funeral services can be done regardless of the final disposition. Pre-arranging is simply recording your wishes with the funeral home and prefunding if you choose to do so.
What information should I bring to the arrangement conference?
- Advance Directives - If the deceased left any written advance directives concerning the disposition of his remains and memorialization, you need to bring them with you. These instructions may be found in a will, or there may be a formally witnessed disposition directive, funeral pre-arrangements, or a pre-need contract.
- Military Discharge Papers
- Details on any cemetery property owned by the deceased or the family (grave plot, columbarium space, etc.)
- Recent photograph of the deceased and any personal effects that you wish to be included in the viewing or burial
- Specific information on the deceased:
- Full legal name
- Address
- Marital status
- Social Security number
- Date of birth
- Place of birth (city and state)
- Educational history (number of years of schooling)
- Armed Forces service dates and serial number
- Occupation or profession
- Parent's names, including mother's maiden name
- Next of kin and other survivors
What services do funeral directors perform?
The funeral director's job is to assist the bereaved in various ways to help them through the loss of a loved one. A funeral director provides bereavement and consolation services for the living, in addition to making arrangements for the cremation, burial, and memorial services for the deceased. He fulfills the role of funeral arranger, funeral director, funeral attendant, and embalmer.

The following list is not all-inclusive, but describes some of the major tasks of a funeral director:
- Removal and transfer of the deceased from the place of death to the funeral home
- Professional care of the deceased, including embalming, casketing, and cosmetology
- Consulting with family to make arrangements for the funeral service
- Filing certificates, permits, and other required forms
- Obtaining copies of the death certificate
- Arrangements with the cemetery, crematory, or other places of final disposition
- Creates and publishes the obituary
- Arrangements for clergy, music, flowers, transportation, pallbearers, and special fraternal or military services
- Directs and manages the funeral service and the funeral procession
- Assists the family with death-related claims, including Social Security, VA insurance, grief counseling
Why are funerals so expensive?

A traditional funeral involves a number of services which add to the total cost. Besides a non-declinable basic services fee, other charges may include removal/transfer of the body to the funeral home; embalming; other preparation of the body; use of facilities and staff for viewing; use of facilities and staff for the funeral ceremony; use of a hearse, service car, or van; a basic memorial printed package; metal casket, a vault or grave liner, and purchase of a cemetery plot.

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