CREMATION BURIAL Options AT MICHIGAN MEMORIAL PARK:
Ossuary
An ossuary service is offered on the grounds of Michigan Memorial.
An ossuary is a building for the careful storage of remains. It is used both during exhumation and for the storage of remains after cremation, until the relatives take the urn with the ashes for burial in a niche.
As a rule, an urn with ashes can stay in the ossuary for up to 40 days free of charge. You will then have to bury the urn in one of the columbariums of the memorial, or take it home for safekeeping so that you can take your time to choose a place of eternal rest.
An ossuary, in this case, is not a place of final resting place, but a place of transition between cremation and burial in a permanent place in an individual or public mausoleum or columbarium.
The ossuarium is also designed to accommodate the bones of several people and has several sections for separate storage of skeletonized bones.
In the ossuarium, bones are carefully preserved in sarcophagi, containers designed to hold the skeletons of one or more individuals.
An ossuarium is a secondary burial site. A place where bones are moved after they are discovered. For example, the bones of Union and Confederate soldiers discovered may be stored in a memorial ossuary.
Ossuaries are of incredibly ancient origin and today there are many historic ossuaries open to the public. The largest ossuarium in the world is located in France - in the catacombs near Paris.
