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Cremation and funeral rite and ceremony appears to be something instinctive to humankind. Since the days of Neanderthals, we have been creating ritual around fatality and giving a special place to fatalities. A Neanderthal corpse was found decorated with antlers and blooms, proving us that we have always had a necessity for ceremony.

Emotionally, death is probably the most difficult things to handle and ritual helps us process it. Ceremony is important to us during every essential time in our lives, no matter whether marriage, aging away from teenage life or death. Most civilizations are prosperous with symbolism in all their rites.

Throughout the last stone age evidence of cremation has been seen where urns have been uncovered. The Greeks used this method for health reasons. It spread to other regions of Europe but the Christian believers and Jews discouraged it as a pagan ritual.

One of the early reasons behind burning off corpses was to prevent spirits connected with death from haunting the living. In the history of memorials, a lot superstition exists, as it does these days. The way the body is disposed of is synonymous with a particular culture’s beliefs.

The Egyptians rites are better known in death than almost every other ancient culture and mummification was an art perfected according to the local arid landscape. More respected people were put into a sarcophagus. The pyramid was described as way of transportation towards the afterlife.

Before being sent adrift on the Nile, commoners were mummified. This river journey was seen as transportation to the afterlife. Various items were given to aid them on their trip, including food to quell hunger.

Today, the way you view Arcadia cremations and funeral rites is influenced by a lot of things. Services are being personalized more and more as people develop diverse needs and cremations in Arcadia belief systems. Increasingly they’re seen as a ritual for the living, rather than the dead.