Noga Funeral Home | Obituaries (2024)

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What happens to a loved one at a funeral home? ›

Once a funeral home has picked up the body and brought it to their facility, they will then clean and dress and/or shroud the body. Afterward, the body will be placed in refrigeration to keep it cool until the day of burial, at which point the body will be transported to the burial site.

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Instead of preparing the body with chemicals, morticians will store it in a fridge that keeps the body at two degrees Celsius. However, like embalming, it's important to remember that this merely slows the decomposition process – it doesn't stop it. A refrigerated body will last three to four weeks.

In addition, the wait time provides an opportunity for the body to be inspected for contagious diseases. Once these legal and health concerns have been addressed, the body can be cremated. The three-day waiting period may seem like a burden, but it serves an important purpose.

Many funeral homes will offer to embalm a person's body prior to their burial. It preserves their body for a viewing and a funeral. But it's not mandatory for embalming to take place. Are you planning on holding a viewing and a funeral service for a loved one prior to their burial?

If you choose a traditional funeral and burial, your highest cost will likely be a metal casket.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median salary for funeral home managers is $72,110 per year (as of May 2022). The median annual salary for morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers was $51,570 that same year.

If you are looking at a long-lasting ground casket, pick a steel or metal casket. If the grave site is low on water content or moisture, metal caskets are known to last even longer, over five decades. Under favorable weather conditions, experts say that metal caskets may even last more than that – up to 80 years.

How soon after death is embalming done? ›

But generally, when you work with a funeral home, your loved one will be refrigerated for between eight and 24 hours before embalming. If you don't want to embalm at all, most mortuaries offer short-term refrigeration, which can allow you to delay the funeral for up to two weeks.

The body takes between ten to fifteen years to decay to a point where you may just find bones, teeth and hair remaining in the casket. There may also be some excess tissue and clothing fibers that withstood the ten years of decay.

Once the deceased person has arrived at the funeral home's mortuary, their details (such as their name, date of death, their age at death, their place of death, the date of transfer, who transferred the deceased body and the valuables on the deceased person) are recorded within the mortuary register.

The police will arrange for the body to be moved by a funeral director acting for the coroner if the death is unexpected. If a doctor has confirmed an expected death you may call a funeral director of your own choice when you are ready to do so.

A funeral home, funeral parlor or mortuary, is a business that provides burial and funeral services for the dead and their families. These services may include a prepared wake and funeral, and the provision of a chapel for the funeral.

Clothing and ALL personal items such as jewelry, all forms of money, dentures, shoes, etc. brought in with the deceased from the medical examiner, hospital or place of death should by law always be itemized and returned to the next of kin or left with the body of the deceased.