Colorado Springs, CO Cremation Services

Serving Families With Cremation Needs For Over Two Decades

We’ll be there for you before, during and after the cremation

Complete Cremation Services with Legacy

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Planning

For immediate needs or planning ahead.

Through our counsel and caring, we will see you through this period of grief by providing a wide range of professional services, options, and merchandise to honor the dignity of your loved one.

Our caring professionals will coordinate an affordable simple cremation that’s meaningful, memorable, and respectful.

Legacy has cremation options from $895 - $1,395.

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Transportation

  • Transportation of the deceased to the crematory
  • Alternative container (The container the body is cremated in)
  • Rigid container (For the return of the cremated remains)
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Paperwork

During this difficult time, we will assist in securing, filing, and obtaining required paperwork and documents.

  • Obtaining certified copies of death certificate
  • Obtaining cremation approval from the medical examiner
  • Assistance in filing for VA benefits and insurance policies
  • Social security administration forms completed
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I just wanted to say thanks for the beautiful memorial service. It was so personal and dignified (just how my husband would have wanted). Thank you for helping me celebrate such a wonderful life with such honor.

- Kelly Watson

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Resources

How to Honor a Life

How to Honor a Life

Ask us about all the ways we can help you uniquely celebrate your loved one’s legacy: burial at sea, scattering of cremains, interment of the ashes, viewings, and memorial services.

Each can be done with a personal touch.

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Scattering at Sea

Scattering at Sea

Scattering at sea combines a sense of finality with a new beginning, as it returns us to nature and our origins.

If you are considering scattering the cremains of a loved one, we have lots of helpful information.

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Why Legacy

Why Legacy

Like family, we are here to help you in every way possible 24/7. Supportive, caring representatives who are trained to answer all of your questions.

All-inclusive service and guidance through each step of the process.

Learn More

Resources

How to Honor a Life

How to Honor a Life

Ask us about all the ways we can help you uniquely celebrate your loved one’s legacy: burial at sea, scattering of cremains, interment of the ashes, viewings, and memorial services.

Each can be done with a personal touch.

Learn More
Scattering at Sea

Scattering at Sea

Scattering at sea combines a sense of finality with a new beginning, as it returns us to nature and our origins.

If you are considering scattering the cremains of a loved one, we have lots of helpful information.

Learn More
Why Legacy

Why Legacy

Like family, we are here to help you in every way possible 24/7. Supportive, caring representatives who are trained to answer all of your questions.

All-inclusive service and guidance through each step of the process.

Learn More

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Colorado Cremation Services and What to Expect

Colorado cremation services have a wide range of experience in dealing with people who need to arrange cremation, for perhaps the first time in their lives.

The person who is nominated to arrange the service on behalf of the person who has died, will be guided expertly by cremation services in Colorado because a number of decisions must be made relatively quickly, while your emotions are running high and everyone around will be anxious.

Your cremation costs in Colorado will be itemized so that you will know which decisions you took and so you are able to pass this information on to family members and other loved ones.

Wondering about Religious Choices in Colorado?

You may make a number of decisions in collaboration with your funeral director who is arranging the cremation about your needs for the appropriate clergy to be appointed and for the funeral service to take place within their church.

Alternately, a non-religious service may be held in the private chapel at the crematorium or elsewhere.

Where necessary, according to religious beliefs, some funeral services and cremations take place within a short time and this can easily be arranged by your funeral director who must hold all the necessary legal documentation. All of these matters are included within the Colorado cremation costs.

Why Choose a Cremation in Colorado?

After a person has died, you may need to refer to the last will and testament to find out if the individual had suggested anything relating to a funeral and service. Where you can't find out sufficient information this way, Colorado cremation services will suggest that you talk to people who were friends and around the same age as the deceased as they may have had conversations about this very subject.

Cremation costs in Colorado are remarkably lower than a comparable burial because you do not have to pay for the land, its preparation or long-term upkeep.

It's expected that in the near future over 50% of the population will be making a cremation their preference and this is partially because families now live across a much wider area, further from home, and it is less easy to return to a grave to look after the site.

Colorado cremation services will explain that many graveyards are falling into disrepair and keeping the ashes of the deceased in a suitable urn or scattering them in a favorite area that the deceased enjoyed during their lifetime, may be a better arrangement for all concerned.

Understanding the Cremation Process

With Colorado cremation costs in mind, you can select from a vast range of caskets from the simplest model, up to the most extravagant.

When the deceased is ready to enter the crematorium's furnace, any jewelry that the family has requested to be returned to them, will be removed, along with pacemakers and other health items that may be a health hazard during the process.

The body will be cremated at around 1800F for between 2 and 4 hours, during which time everything inside the furnace will be turned to ashes. This procedure will be covered within the Colorado cremation costs you have agreed to. Other costs may be applicable but you'll be made aware of your options before cremation commences.

How will the Ashes be Returned?

The crematorium is able to supply a standard urn within their cremation costs in Colorado. Should you wish, you may select an urn of your choice because you may wish to display the ashes during a memorial or in your home.

For logistical reasons, the cremation may not take place the moment the funeral service completes. Each individual is cremated alone, and while this will usually occur on the same day as the funeral service, on occasions this will happen on the following day, at the very latest and will be explained carefully to you by Colorado cremation services.

More Info and FAQ's

  • How should the deceased be dressed? The deceased may be dressed according to their own, previous, personal wishes or by a selection chosen by the person or people arranging the cremation services in Colorado. You will understand that these clothes will not be returned to you and will form part of the ashes of the deceased.

 

  • What about metal fillings? Some people worry that the metals used by dentists will cause a problem in the crematorium. In years gone by, this would have been a worry because undesirable chemicals would have been released into the air during the cremation process, but staff from cremation services in Colorado will advise that modern day equipment will remove these chemicals before anything is passed into the air.
  • Do you offer green funerals? Where you wish to ask how cremation services in Colorado can create a green funeral, you can be sure that the professional experts will guide you and explain everything that is related to cremation costs in Colorado.

 

Need Help with More Questions? We can Provide Answers

It is perfectly normal to want to ask a lot of questions when you are arranging a cremation. Not all of these questions will readily come to you when you are talking to the funeral director so you should feel free to ask any questions you wish 24/7, to the experts at cremation services in Colorado.