Cascadia Cremation & Burial

read moreWe offer a full range of final arrangement options, and your loved one is in our care through the entire process. Your loved one will not be sent to another facility for cremation. We will assist in helping you decide and plan a traditional religious service, a service with military honors, a graveside service, a celebration of life, a memorial service or no service at all. Our goal is to comply with the wishes of both the deceased individual and of the family. A full range of caskets and urns are available for family members to choose from.

read moreTraditionally, a burial service involves a visitation, followed by a funeral service in a church, or other place of worship. The casket is typically present at both these events, and it is your decision on whether to have the casket open or not. You have the option of having the remains interred (earth burial), or it may be entombed in a crypt inside a mausoleum (above ground burial). Family or religious traditions are often a factor for choosing burial. Decisions need to be made on whether the body needs to be embalmed, what kind of casket to use, what cemetery to use and what to put on the gravestone.

read moreToday's funerals are not the funerals of previous generations. Funerals today are more celebrations of the life of the deceased than the more traditional religious service. Many services have no religious connection. And, services can be held at any location and can be conducted by anyone. In many instances, there are no services of any type held. Basically, you can do whatever the deceased or the survivors want to do. At Cascadia Cremation and Burial Services we promise to provide you the opportunity to have the type of service, if any, that you want to have.

read moreMany people plan for life events such as weddings and vacations well in advance, but many people do not plan for something that is certain to happen, their funeral. While most people do not want to think about their own mortality, the time to pre-plan your funeral is now. The primary advantages of pre-arranging your funeral is to relieve the burden on your loved ones in an already emotional time, and to ensure your funeral is carried out according to your wishes, eliminating the task of second-guessing what you would have wanted.

read moreThese articles will help you understand something about the grief and how we can help ourselves and others through the difficult process. These articles were written by Dr Bill Webster, our Director of Grief Education, and are part of a comprehensive library available on our Grief Journey web portal. Dr Bill is the founder and Executive Director of the Centre for the Grief Journey. He earned his doctorate at the University of Toronto in 1990, and has been awarded the prestigious Fellow in Thanatology by the Association of Death Education and Counselling (ADEC).

read moreFamily and friends getting together to honor a loved one's life is one of the most important steps in the grieving and healing process. You may opt to have a traditional religious or military service, or as more and more people are doing, you can choose to have a non-traditional 'life celebration'. Decisions need to be made about the location of the funeral, the choice of casket or urn and who the pallbearers should be. Another decision to make is who will be officiating the service. You can choose to have a minister (or other religious leader) or a celebrant officiate the service.