After cremations as part of cremations services offered in Warrensville Heights, OH, you will feel the weight of the intensity of grief descend upon you like a heavy blanket that it seems impossible to remove. Grief is a normal reaction when you lose someone you love. How you experience grief will be unique because you are unique.

There is no specific way to grief. At times, you will find, in your grieving journey, that other people try to put their expectations of what grief is on you, and you may find yourself at odds with their expectations. This experience can be painful and hurtful, but to truly move in a healthy way through the grieving process, you will need to put others’ expectations aside, because those people are not you and their expectations do not define how you will make your way through grief.

It’s important, therefore, to remember that grief never goes away. Instead, it changes over time. That oppressively heavy blanket that is weighing upon you now will not always be the way grief feels. As you walk through grief, the constant feeling of carrying a very cumbersome burden will give way to moments of intensity that occasionally punctuate a general feeling of peace and comfort.

Therefore, it’s important to give yourself time to feel what you’re feeling and not try to rush the process or shut down the intense emotions and feelings that follow after someone you love dies. We live in a society of busyness that expects things to normalize quickly, no matter how devastating those things may be. That is simply not healthy, or even possible, with grief.

If you try to rush the process by avoiding dealing with the intensity of grief, you can be assured that while you may be able to postpone it, you will have to deal with it at some point down the road of life. It’s better to do it now and start the path of healing as soon as possible.

Another way to healthily handle grief is to be sure to stay connected to people who love you unconditionally and who you trust to be empathetic with what you are going through. It is often tempting to cut off contact with people because you are sad or you don’t want to bring everyone else down. However, isolating yourself can be detrimental to the healing process.

It’s important while you are grieving to make sure you take care of yourself. It can be tempting to eat unhealthy food and to not exercise on a daily basis. By getting good nutrition, you can keep your body healthy while you process intense emotions that can often wreak havoc on the body, making you more susceptible to getting sick or developing health problems.

A moderate amount of daily exercise (30 minutes of walking, for example) is good for generating endorphins, which are the brain’s mood lifters. If you’re able to get outdoors, then you get the beauty (even in snow) of the wonders we often take for granted in the natural world around us.

Another healthy step in the grieving process is to seek help if you need it. If you find that you’re stuck in a grief rut that you can’t seem to move past, then you might want to join a grief support group or have some private counseling sessions with a grief therapist to work through the impasse.

For information about cremations services in Warrensville Heights, OH, our compassionate and experienced team at E. F. Boyd & Son Funeral Home is here to help. You can visit our funeral home at 25900 Emery Road, Warrensville Heights, OH 44123, or you can call us today at (216) 831-7906.

With cremations as part of Cleveland, OH cremation services becoming a more common and popular choice among Americans, it’s important to understand what’s involved in the cremation process and what options are available with cremations.

Many people believe that when their loved one is cremated, the only service they can have to commemorate their loved one is a memorial service after the cremation. However, more often, people are choosing to have a visitation or viewing and funeral service before their loved one is cremated.

As is common with traditional burials, the deceased may be present during the visitation and the funeral service. The visitation is held a couple of hours before the funeral service, and offers an opportunity for mourners to pay their respects to the deceased and offer their sympathy to the family of the deceased.

The visitation is followed by a funeral service, which traditionally consists of favorite readings of the deceased, eulogies, spiritual comfort, and music. After the funeral service, the deceased is transported to the crematory and the cremation take places.

Cremation as a funeral disposition method has been around for thousands of years. In ancient Greece and Rome, it was very common for armies that were fighting in distant lands to cremated their fallen soldiers, and take their cremated remains back home after wars were over to be buried in their native lands.

Cremation fell out of favor during the reign of Emperor Constantine of Rome, and burial in the ground became common for people who had died. Only during outbreaks of worldwide, highly-contagious plagues was cremation, which ensured that the deadly diseases didn’t spread, more commonly used as a method of final disposition.

In the late 1800’s, during the reign of Queen Victoria in England, the practice of cremation was more generally revived by the queen’s personal physician, who promoted cremation as a sanitary measure – as graveyards became overcrowded and there were no general standards for how people were buried – and as a way to conserve land.

The practice of cremation, however, didn’t really gain traction among the general population until about the end of the 20th century. Much of this popularity is attributable to three factors: increased environmental awareness; decreased cemetery space in urban areas; and, more population mobility.

The process of cremation is one that has become standardized in the United States. To begin the process, the family of the deceased must sign a cremation authorization form and the funeral home must obtain a cremation permit. Cremations in the United States generally have a 24-48 hour waiting period before they take place.

When the deceased is at the crematory, they are first identified by a family member or a current picture. The deceased is tagged with a non-combustible identifying tag that will follow them through the entire cremation process.

After the deceased gets their identifying tag, they are placed in a fully-combustible container and put into the crematory. The actual cremation takes only two or three hours on average. When the cremation is finished, all that is left is bone fragments.

There may be small pieces of metal, such as metal fillings or joint screws and pins, mixed among the bone fragments. After the cremation remains have cooled, the metal is removed, and the bone fragments are ground down to the consistency of fine sand.

These remains are put into a sealed plastic bag that is placed into a cremation container, which is returned to the family to do with as they and the deceased desired.

For more information about cremation and Cleveland, OH cremation services, our compassionate and experienced team at E. F. Boyd & Son Funeral Home is here to help. You can visit our funeral home at 2165 E. 89th Street, Cleveland, OH 44106, or you can call us today at (216) 791-0770.

Before cremations as part of cremations services offered in Warrensville Heights, OH, there may be an autopsy performed on the body of the person who died. Autopsies are not performed on everyone one who dies. If a person is elderly or is suffering from a terminal illness, no autopsy will be performed unless something about the death seems out of the ordinary.

However, when people die unexpectedly or their deaths seem to indicate something other than natural causes, an autopsy will be performed to find out the exact cause of death.

Autopsies are usually performed by a pathologist who has extensive training in examining deceased people and inferring conclusions about what led to their deaths. However, there is more than one type of autopsy that might be performed.

Complete autopsies examine every part of the body for an indication of what led to the person’s death. This will include the external surface of the body and all the major organs, including the lungs, the brain, the heart, the kidneys, and the liver.

Partial autopsies are performed on a specific internal part of the body. While the entire external surface of the body will be examined, only a single internal organ or a single internal region of the body, such as the head, neck, and shoulders will be looked at for causes of death.

Observation autopsies are autopsies that are performed by a pathologist or teacher in an instruction setting, usually as part of medical school curriculum.

Exhumation autopsies are autopsies that are performed after a buried body has been excavated from its grave. These kinds of autopsies are conducted if there are unanswered questions about the cause of death after the body has been buried or if new evidence comes to light to warrant an autopsy.

If a first autopsy has inconclusive results or the findings are not reliable, a second autopsy may be ordered to determine the exact cause of death.

In most cases, autopsies are ordered by a coroner or a medical examiner. Autopsies can be performed without the permission of the family of the deceased. Many autopsies are ordered because of information given by someone who is concerned about how the person died. This can include medical staff or law enforcement. This kind of autopsy is deemed a “reportable” death.

The family of the deceased can ask for an autopsy. However, that doesn’t mean that an autopsy will be performed. Only if the coroner or medical examiner believes the family’s concerns about how their loved one died are worth investigating will an autopsy be ordered and performed.

If the family wants an autopsy and the coroner or medical examiner doesn’t believe the circumstances of death warrant an autopsy, then the family will be responsible for paying for the autopsy. This cost is not covered by Medicaid, Medicare, or other insurance plans, so it’s an out-of-pocket cost for the family of the deceased.

Ordered autopsies are usually done for very specific reasons.

One of these is, of course, uncertainty about what caused the person to die. If the person’s death was unexpected and sudden, and they were not ill or elderly, then it’s likely that an autopsy will be performed.

Autopsies will also be done for people who’ve died as a result of a work-related illness or injury, in order to see if the family should be compensated for the death.

An autopsy may be ordered for conditions that can only be confirmed after death. An example of this would be Lewy Body dementia. While the symptoms of this type of dementia are evident while the person is alive, the actual presence of the Lewy Body protein in the brain can’t be confirmed without an autopsy.

For more information about cremations services in Warrensville Heights, OH, our compassionate and experienced team at E. F. Boyd & Son Funeral Home is here to help. You can visit our funeral home at 25900 Emery Road, Warrensville Heights, OH 44123, or you can call us today at (216) 831-7906.

Before cremations as part of Cleveland, OH cremation services, immediate family members of the person who died will have to ask their employers, if they’re still working, for time off of work to attend make funeral plans for their loved ones. Some employers have bereavement leave plans in place, while other employers do not.

Bereavement leave is leave granted from work for employees who’ve lost an immediate family member (spouse, child, sibling, parent, grandparent, grandchild, in-law, stepchild, or stepparent). While it would be logical to assume that all employers would have a bereavement leave policy, many employers do not.

There are no federal laws that require employers to grant bereavement leave to their employees.

At the state level, only Oregon has enacted a bereavement leave law for companies with 25 or more employees. These companies must give two weeks of bereavement leave – it doesn’t have to be paid – to all employees who’ve lost an immediate family member.

The state of Illinois has a bereavement law that requires companies with 50 or more employees to grant 10 days of unpaid leave to employees who’ve lost a child.

Therefore, most employers can decide whether or not to grant bereavement leave. If they do grant bereavement leave, they can decide how long the bereavement leave lasts and they can decide whether to grant it as paid or unpaid time off of work.

For those companies that do grant bereavement leave, the usually amount of time is three days after the death of an immediate family member. Often this puts family members who must travel long distances to the location of the funeral in a situation where there isn’t enough time to get there, take part in the funeral, and return home.

So, there are many instances where immediate family members miss the opportunity to say goodbye to their loved ones and miss the opportunity to grieve in person with other family members.

The bereavement leave policies in the United States are, for the most part, left up to the goodwill of employers. The federal government’s only real effort toward enabling family members to be with their dying loved ones and to be able to plan their funerals and share other family members’ grief is the Family Medical Leave Act.

However, the Family Medical Leave Act also has stipulations as to whether it can be used as part of bereavement leave. Only private employers with 50 or more employees during each of 20 or more weeks in the previous year are eligible to offer Family Medical Leave to their employees.

And, while the Family Medical Leave Act offers up to 12 weeks of family and medical leave, the time off is unpaid. Additionally, many employees who use the Family Medical Leave Act find that their jobs are not protected, and if they use the maximum time available (three months), often come back to find that they no longer have a job with their employer.

Other nations do a much better job taking care of their citizens and employees when a death in the family occurs. In Canada, for instance, all citizens who have been continuously employed for three months are guaranteed three days of bereavement leave following the death of a loved one in their immediate family. In Sweden, every employee is entitled to up to 10 days of paid bereavement leave each year.

For more information about bereavement leaved and Cleveland, OH cremation services, our compassionate and experienced team at E. F. Boyd & Son Funeral Home is here to help. You can visit our funeral home at 2165 E. 89th Street, Cleveland, OH 44106, or you can call us today at (216) 791-0770.

With cremations as part of cremation services offered in Cleveland, OH, important paperwork will be needed through the funeral process and after the funeral is over. All of this paperwork should be kept in one place and the person handling everything should know where it is and have complete access to it.

When a family is grieving over the loss of someone they love, they will not have enough clarity to think of everything they will need to take care of funeral arrangements and take care of their loved one’s affairs afterward. If you take care of making sure all of these are together now, then it will make it a lot easier for your family when you die.

If you are the executor of your loved one’s estate, you will need to get two different documents to fulfill your responsibilities.

One document is a certified death certificate. You should ask for at least 20 in your meeting with the funeral home director (you can also get more later if you need them) if the estate is small. Larger estates may need more.

The second document you will likely need to execute the estate is an Employer Identification Number (EIN). This document makes the estate of your loved one a legal entity that can pay outstanding bills, pay funeral expenses, and distribute assets to the estate’s heirs.

You will also need identification papers and personal papers. For identification, you will need a birth certificate, citizenship papers, social security card, driver’s license, and passport (if applicable). The personal papers you will need include a marriage certificate, divorce/annulment papers, prenuptial agreements, military discharge papers, and birth and death certificates (if applicable) for the rest of the immediate family.

You may not need all the personal papers, but it’s good to have them in case you do. Make sure to keep your loved one’s purse or wallet (if they died some place other than home) so you have their driver’s license. In hospitals, hospice houses, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes, these should be among the effects of your loved one that are given to you after they die.

To make funeral arrangements according to your deceased loved one’s wishes, you will need any documentation they left that gave instructions for their funeral. You will also need biographical information for the obituary, and you will need contact information for anyone who needs to know that your loved one has died (don’t forget employers, if your loved one was not retired and still working).

There are some other papers that you’ll need at various times before and after your loved one dies. Before death, you will need your loved one’s durable power of attorney, living will, durable healthcare power of attorney, and organ donation papers. Without these, you will not be able to handle your loved one’s affairs if they are unable to do so themselves.

After your loved one has died, you will need either their will or revocable trust to execute the estate according to their wishes.

You will also need your loved one’s financial information. This can include bank accounts, investments, insurance policies, retirement accounts, pensions, payable on death accounts, and income tax returns.

For more information about cremation services in Cleveland, OH, our compassionate and experienced team at E. F. Boyd & Son Funeral Home is here to help. You can visit our funeral home at 25900 Emery Road, Warrensville Heights, OH 44123, or you can call us today at (216) 831-7906.