Why above ground burial

Instead of holding full-sized caskets, a columbarium holds urns, which contain the cremated remains of your loved one. The cost of the container isn't included.

Some columbarium niches are built within an indoor mausoleum. The spaces are marked with engraved labels. You may also find columbarium niches built into the basement of a building. One example of this type of entombment is in Sacred Stones in England. While columbaria can be made with a wide variety of materials, the latest trend is that the niche is constructed with a glass door.

Inside, you can see the urn holding the remains of the loved one. Also, people have been known to place other mementos that were important to the deceased. Just as there are indoor mausoleums and garden mausoleums, there are outdoor versions of columbarium niches, too. These are called garden walls. Visitors to garden wall niches are exposed to outdoor elements, just as those who visit a cemetery.

Most garden walls are placed along a decorated walkway. These paths often have benches so visitors can sit and quietly reflect or pray. Garden wall pricing varies greatly upon the location of the wall and the amenities offered to visitors. Plan to spend thousands of dollars on a single space in a garden wall.

Some cemeteries now offer scattering gardens. These gardens are available for survivors to scatter the remains of their loved ones. Some choose to place the remains in a scattering garden because it provides a place where family members can visit in the future to reflect on the life of their loved one. It contained the body of a young Indian girl of sixteen or eighteen years, with a countenance presenting quite an agreeable expression; she was richly dressed in leggins of fine scarlet cloth elaborately ornamented; a new pair of moccasins, beautifully embroidered with porcupine quills, was on her feet, and her body was wrapped in two superb buffalo-robes worked in like manner; she had evidently been dead but a day or two, and to our surprise a portion of the upper part of her person was bare, exposing the face and a part of the breast, as if the robes in which she was wrapped had by some means been disarranged, whereas all the other bodies were closely covered up.

It was, at the time, the opinion of our mountaineers that these Indians must have fallen in an encounter with a party of Crows; but I subsequently learned that they had all died of the cholera, and that this young girl, being considered past recovery, had been arranged by her friends in the habiliments of the dead, inclosed in the lodge alive, and abandoned to her fate, so fearfully alarmed were the Indians by this to them novel and terrible disease.

The different skins are neatly fitted and sewed together with sinew, and all painted in seven alternate horizontal stripes of brown and yellow, decorated with various life-like war scenes. Over the small entrance is a large bright cross, the upright being a large stuffed white wolf- skin upon his war lance, and the cross-bar of bright scarlet flannel, containing the quiver of bow and arrows, which nearly all warriors still carry, even when armed with repeating rifles.

As the cross is not a pagan but a Christian which Long Horse was not either by profession or practice emblem, it was probably placed there by the influence of some of his white friends. I entered, finding Long Horse buried Indian fashion, in full-war dress, paint and feathers, in a rude coffin, upon a platform about breast high, decorated with weapons, scalps, and ornaments.

A large opening and wind-flap at top favored ventilation, and though he had lain there in an open coffin a full month, some of which was hot weather, there was but little effluvia; in fact, I have seldom found much in a burial-teepee, and when this mode of burial is thus performed it is less repulsive than natural to suppose.

Norris, superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, he having been an eye-witness of what he relates in Hammond, U. Between 3, and 4, B. Working mostly within natural caves, elaborate facades and occasionally multiple burial chambers were constructed on the sides of cliffs.

The deceased were laid out on stone benches within the chambers to decompose. After a generation passed, the bones were moved to ossuaries and bone chambers to allow the next generation to be buried on each stone bench.

But it was nothing compared to the opulence and regal tributes that would follow, with the advent of mausoleums in the Fourth Century B. When Queen Artemisia II of Caria, in the Asian Minor, wanted to honor her fallen brother husband, King Mausolus, she built the famed Mausoleum of Halicarnassus — the structure taking its name from the deceased.

The structure, built near Bodrun, Turkey, is considered one of the seven wonders of the Ancient World. Since then, mausoleums have long been held in high regard for their tributes to those passed. But in the United States, mausoleums have become a more practical and affordable option for the public. Starting in the late 19 th century, mausoleums have become an increasingly popular option for families wishing to stay together not just in this life, but the next.

The city of New Orleans has the richest history involving above ground burial, in part because the remains of loved ones had the unfortunate tendency to rise back above ground. This is because New Orleans is actually slightly below sea level.