New Hampshire Legacy Cremation Services has professional compassionate staff members and affordable cremation costs. We at Legacy understand the difficulties you are faced with at this time and we want to be able to help.
Availability
Our caring staff is available to take your call any time of night or day every day of the year and answer any questions that you may have about cremation services, cremation costs, and the cremation process.
Legacy's History
New Hampshire's Legacy Cremation Services is family owned and has been for nearly twenty- five years. We have alos been operating in New Hampshire for that long. Many of our staff members are also family members who truly care about helping those who have lost a loved one.
We at Legacy have lost family members ourselves and can empathize with all those who have lost loved ones and only want to help you through this difficult time.
Overview of the Cremation Process
The cremation process begins after the deceased has been seen by a physician, the death certificate has been signed, and any organ donations have been processed.
At that time if you have notified the hospital that New Hampshire's Legacy Cremation Services will be taking care of the services, we will come to the hospital, pick up the deceased and bring them to our facilities.
You may see the deceased for a short period of time before the cremation process begins, unless you decided to have funeral services first, than you can have a regular visitation at the funeral home after embalming is complete.
Embalming is not necessary if your loved one is going to be cremated without a funeral service.
The deceased will be checked at the crematorium for identification, and any jewelry they may still have on their person. After these verifications, the deceased will be placed in a container that can enter the cremation chamber.
Only one body can fit into the chamber at a time so there is no way that your loved one's ashes can be mixed with another. Once the heat and flames have reduced the body to ashes and some small bone fragments, the deceased will be removed from the chamber, and placed in a machine that will process the remains into a fine powder. If there is no urn purchased by you, the remains will be transferred to a rigid container that we supply and we at New Hampshire Legacy Cremation Services will be called by the crematorium and advised that we can pick up the remains.
This is the end of the cremation process, but not the end of our services. We also take care of any memorial services you may want.
These services plus paperwork for SS, Veterans benefits and life insurance are included in the cremation costs.
The Memorial Service
Most families want some type of memorial service after the cremation process. There are many things that you can do with your loved one's ashes after cremation, and many ways that you can honor your loved one.

• A memorial service where family and friends gather just as they would for a funeral viewing
• Burying the ashes in a family plot with a small ceremony
• Placing the ashes in a mausoleum
• Keeping the ashes in an urn at your home
• Wear some of the ashes in specially made pendants so you can keep your loved one close
• Scatter the ashes at sea with a ceremony
• Scatter the ashes over a favorite place of your loved one with a ceremony

For a memorial service at New Hampshire's Legacy Cremation Services we recommend having a "celebration of life". Over our years in service, we have noticed that more and more families are now doing this because it gives them a sense of the unique live lived by the deceased, and they walk away feeling better about the life of the deceased instead of worse due to the death of their loved one.
This is easy to accomplish when you bring items from your loved one's life to the ceremony or gathering you are going to have.
These are a few of the items we have seen and helped other families to arrange;

• Photos of their loved one with grandchildren
• Photos of their loved one doing their favorite things, such as being surround with their family and friends, or fishing, golfing, bowling, hiking
• Fishing gear
• Golf clubs
• A favorite chair
• A box of Cigars
• An expensive bottle of Brandy
• A hat they always wore

These services will add to the cremation costs
These are only suggestions that can help you to decide what you would like to bring to the memorial service.
New Hampshire Legacy Cremation Services has professional compassionate staff members and affordable cremation costs.