Cremation

LegacyUser

Annette Brantzeg Burnett said: It is complicated to indicate "Cremation" because it doesn't fit any of the information requested. A cremation option would be helpful. Because of the cremation in our situation there is no burial data.

LegacyUser

S. said: great idea, In my Humble it is needed. good luck I hope they put it in.

LegacyUser

Ron Tanner said: Cremation can be found in the other information section. My Dad was cremated and buried interestingly enough.

Sandra Black Duffy

I think that it should be added as an option in burial, not as "other information".

DavidSweeney68

AMEN!

Gail Swihart Watson

I don't think burial should be the default at all. I think that fact should be "Disposition of Remains" should be the title of the field. I'm all good with "Burial" being the first option, "Cremation - buried" as the second, "Cremation - not buried" as the third, "Unknown or Unverified" being the 4th, and any other descriptor to cover people from all over the world who have vanished in times and places where persecution or war was going on. I know people from the former Yugoslavia who never verified what happened to a relative. I have a cousin of an ancestor who went down in the Pacific during WW II. I have a direct Civil War ancestor whose death location is known, but burial location is not. Life is not clean, and the "burial" option is insufficient.

ShirleySaffle1

My suggestion is to leave the date, but have a check box for BURIAL, CREMATION, UNKNOWN, OTHER. Have a section appear next to the box to type information.

Sometimes a person may be cremated but are also buried (like my brother).

Jane Cantrell Brookman

Thank you for your suggestion. Your idea has been forwarded to the appropriate manager.

Gail Swihart Watson

Yes, I agree that cremation is different. ShirleySaffle1 said her brother is cremated and buried, however my parents are cremated but not buried. In fact they are not even at a cemetery at all. I have an aunt and uncle whose cremated ashes were combined and scattered in 2 locations. Thus, cremated is not really one choice, it is many. I really believe Disposition of Remains with a big drop down list (that includes a free entry text option for OTHER) is the only logical choice today.

Jelly_Mitch

It definitely needs the options, but I do think for cremation it should have 2 options, buried or not, we don't need to know if and where they were spread or who's mantel they are on.

But as others have said and I agree, Buried, Cremated 1&2, Donated and Unknown