Urns

After the cremation of the body, the ashes are transferred into a temporary storage vessel. The family can choose whether to scatter the ashes, bury it, or transfer it to an urn.

There are urns made from various materials – metal, crystal, wood, clay and more, and of course there are many different designs. Some of the urns enable the hermetic closure of te urn in a way which ensures the ash is preserved during storage or transportation.

Among other possibilities, the urn can be kept at home, buried in the ground or stored in a columbarium.

The cremation of bodies began spreading around Europe during the Bronze Age, a custom which later spread to the Greeks and Romans. During this period they began using urns, and the first columbarium were built in order to store the urns.