This is the stage nobody is ready for, because it arrives as admin. There's a decision about cremation to make within a day or two, usually at the vet, usually while you can barely speak. Then, weeks later, there's a box on a shelf and no obvious idea of what it is for. These pages take those decisions one at a time and say plainly what is involved. Where they quote a price it is somebody else's price, from a named source with the date we read it, because what a crematorium or a stonemason charges isn't ours to state.
The reading, in order
- Memorial ideas, including ones we don't make
- The first Christmas without them
- What to do with the ashes
- Burying a pet at home
- What pet cremation costs
- Grave markers
- A stone in the garden
- A memorial garden
- Memorial ideas for a cat
- Keepsakes
- Memorial cards
- Photobooks
- A frame for a cat photo
And after that
The stage that follows this one is the portrait: The one thing we make: a portrait of your animal in a painted style, from your own photograph. What the styles are, what the formats are, and whether it is worth it.