When ready to keep a loved one close in heart, not hearth,
it is time to transfer cremains from household to parkland... to the beauty of nature.
|
|
"To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;" Isaiah 61:3 KJV
|
Information is presented below on these Parkland Peace topics and services:
- Essential Service describes a settling service.
- My Parkland Peace shows many benefits for you and family by preparing for your service.
- “My Choice” Service enables you to designate an area within a specified parkland.
- Alpha Sites are the diverse parklands and estates in which cremains are settled unless a Distinguished Site or Custom Site is specified.
- Distinguished Sites. Four extraordinary settling opportunities are:
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, a National Park Service parkland.
Score, for settling in a University sports field.
Honorably Discharged, for going out with a bang.
Family Estate, for burial of cremains.
-
Custom Sites are locations of significance to you that are not a Parkland Peace site.
- You, Involved
-
Choices in Commemoration
Certificate of Settlement
Pictures
Witness
Halo Memorial Center
- Pet Care
-
Safekeeping for Co-Release
|
Essential Service
As your representative, a Parkland Peace bearer will settle cremains in an Alpha, Distinguished, or Custom Site. Cremains will be removed from their container, prepared for ecological release, and gently broadcast upon the land. Parkland terrain will be unchanged, save for the presence of final matter. Settling will be peaceful, as the bearer communes with nature. The service may include messages from loved ones, in the form of letters for the bearer to read aloud or a recorded presentation of music and words. Settling service duration is limited to one half-hour. No marker or other items will be left at the scene.
|
My Parkland Peace
Serenity results from making good decisions to guard yourself and your loved ones. Give yourself and your family this good feeling by talking about your wishes and how to prepare for their fulfillment. To spare your family the challenges posed by possessing your cremated remains, pre-plan your service. Please see the "My Parkland Peace" page.
|
"My Choice"
Diversity of scenery within an enormous parkland may appeal to you, or you may prefer to define an environment. You may establish a specific location that has scenery of special appeal to you. Choose a site for yourself alone, or for a group so that your own cremains will someday congregate with theirs. Give your family and friends assurance of continuing closeness through generations. Contact us for pre-arrangements, and together we'll find the right place for you and your group. "My Choice" is available in Alpha Sites and in these two Distinguished Sites: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and Family Estate. $100, in addition to the Site fee.
|
Alpha Site
Unless otherwise specified, a settling site will be in an Alpha parkland or estate chosen for you by your Parkland Peace team. The scenery may be of a lake shore, salt water coast, meandering creek, flowering meadow, woodland path or mountain trail. If commemoration is requested in your directives, pictures and a certificate will provide the park name and the GPS coordinates of the release point. The release point will be readily accessible by car and pleasant walk. $200.
|
Distinguished Site
Four specific settling sites and scenarios are available, for the fee that is cited with each description...
|
| Sleeping Bear Dunes
National Lakeshore
In August 2011, ABC's Good Morning America
viewers voted this national park the
MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE IN AMERICA.
35 miles of Lake Michigan pure water coastline, islands,
21 inland lakes, and hiking trails through glorious forests
make this parkland a USA treasure.
www.nps.gov/slbe
A limited number of people may be served,
by National Park Service permit conditions.
Contact us quickly.
$400.
|
|
Score
Special accommodations for
eternal athletes and
University of Florida friends.
$500.
| |
Honorably Discharged
An explosives expert will custom tailor
a pyrotechnic display for your family, for a
dynamic finale.
$2,500.
| |
|
Family Estate
Burial of cremains is offered on a privately-owned
family farm in central Texas. A creek flows across
this land and into the Colorado River, then into the
Gulf of Mexico. Cattle graze contentedly.
Wildflowers are abundant, as are the garden delights.
Burial is also offered on a privately-owned estate ringed
by ranchlands, in the mountains of southeast Arizona.
$300.
|
Custom Site
Do you have a favorite spot, or a place you have always wanted to go, where you would like cremains settled? A Parkland Peace bearer may accompany and assist you in settling cremains there. Or, a bearer may go to the site that is dear to you, in your stead, to settle cremains. Please contact us to discuss your ideas.
|
You, Involved
Would you like to witness the release of your loved one's cremains, or actively participate in the ceremony? You may do so in a Parkland Peace settling site, accompanied by a Parkland Peace bearer. The service price will be the same as if the bearer were settling the matter, unaccompanied.
|
Commemoration
Certificate of Settlement with GPS coordinates: mailed $25, emailed $15.
Settlement scene photography by the bearer: Three photos, mailed $25, emailed $15.
A witness to photograph or video the bearer conducting the settling service. $100.
Remembrance in the Halo Memorial Center $100.
|
|
Pet Care
The cremated remains of beloved pets will be settled, with appreciation for the joy that they have brought to their families. $25 for pets weighing up to 25 pounds. $1 per pound, thereafter. Commemoration is available.
If the cremains of a household pet are settled along with the cremains of its person, the pet fee will be waived.
Please see the Pets page of this website for details.
|
Safekeeping for Co-Release
We will keep cremains secure until
a loved one also passes, and
release all remains together.
Please contact us for details.
| |
The Directives page in this website will enable you to specify settling services and commemoration services.
Please print the Directives page and include it in the package when sending cremains to be settled by Parkland Peace.
|
|
