Month: February 2024

When choosing to bury the remains instead of cremation or entombment, you will have to add a grave liner or vault. In some places, you have to purchase from the mortuary whereas in others, you have to purchase form the cemetery. A grave liner and a vault are completely different. Make sure you know which one you want.

Remember, vaults are NOT required in any state but most cemeteries will require it to keep the grave from sinking in and creating more work.

Grave Liners

There are two different types of Grave Liners – 1. Concrete sectional burial liner or a 2. Solid liner box. Although it costs about $50 for a sectional and $125 for a solid, they will charge you $250 for either one. Generally, they will not ask you which one you want, they will just pick one.

A Concrete sectional burial liner is assembled inside the grave. It has very little water proofing and can easily be pushed over if it wasn’t assembled inside the grave. The packed dirt is the magic ingredient in keeping the Liner together. Each section is about 1 inch and a quarter thick, constructed with concrete and reinforced with chicken wire.

On the other hand, a Solid concrete box is about 1.5″ thick and reinforced with gauge iron mesh. It stands 30″ high, 33″ wide, and 94″ long.

So which one would the cemetery prefer to give you? They would actually give you the solid box if they could. It doesn’t …

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1 of the most critical facets of installing the headstone is the fixing inside the ground. There has been substantially publicity about the hazards of slipping or unsecured headstones and the latest health and basic safety legislations have been put in put, several unsafe headstones staying laid down to avert incidents.

It is the responsibility of the mason to assess the ground disorders and decide which is the most appropriate foundation and correcting method to be applied. There are particular proposed repairing procedures which are detailed by NAMM’s code of apply, which have been examined by an independent structural engineer. Certain interest really should be paid to the hole dimension and depth stops to make certain the fixing is not compromised. The most prevalent fixing varieties which is getting proposed by NAMM and adopted by masons is the anchor repairing.

There are many repairing strategies depending on the floor situations, headstone measurement etcetera. The technique which is turning into a person of the most well-known is the floor anchor and is highly encouraged by NAMM. This is in which a floor anchor/steel bar runs from the foundation of the headstone deep into ground. With this technique if a joint breaks the headstone will not slide down quickly it will want repairing but will only slide above if forced is applied as opposed to falling on its individual. You can also bolt the headstone again a responsible approach working with resin and stainless steel dowels.

Some headstones are positioned on a …

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Today I want to present you a simple personal growth exercise. It will help you to loosen up a self-pity tendency and it will give you hope for a better future.

Self-pity is unnatural state of inner misery where you suffer from pain. It happens especially when you lost your loved one and now you are suffering from broken heart. There is a lot of feelings of hurt and disappointment along the way with the need for mercy as well. It is not a healthy state of being nor practical to hold it.

If you are honest with yourself, you admit that it is possible you might have this issue within yourself. This tendency is a mental construct which stays in your subconscious mind. When you get rid of it, you will feel the difference. It will be sort of release, you will feel free and self-empowered. You will create your new life with a greater enthusiasm.

First, you must take a look at the self-pity state and how you feel about it. It connects to weaknesses, depression and emotional pain. You can feel unworthy, lonely, stuck, hopeless and isolated too.

If you are ready and open-minded to try it out, please take your hand and place it over your heart.

Then you say: I notice that self-pity is very toxic to me and to my life.

Now, take a short break and reconsider what you feel inside. You may experience feelings such as greater enthusiasm, happiness, security, sense of …

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In this article we’re going to briefly discuss an offshoot of the Masonic service, one for women called the Eastern Star Funeral Service.

The Eastern Star organization is an offshoot of the Masons for women. The reason for this is that a woman can’t become a Mason. The reasons why, at least for this article, are unimportant. However, there is an organization for women who want to be a part of the Masonic community. That organization is the Eastern Star. The only requirement for becoming a member of the Eastern Star is that the woman has to be the descendent of a Mason. Yes, there is a catch. Your father or grandfather or husband or somebody in your family has to be a Mason himself. If this one condition is met and you then become a member of the Eastern Star you are then entitled to an Eastern Star memorial service.

So how does one qualify for an Eastern Star funeral service? Well, when a member of the Eastern Star in good standing, dies, they are entitled to this service. Good standing means that their dues are paid up in full and have no Masonic charges filed against them.

When an Eastern Star member dies the chapter to which they belong sends a floral arrangement to the funeral home. This arrangement is in the shape of a five pointed star and with the mystical colors of the order.

Before the actual service takes place however, the members of the chapter …

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