Once a loved one’s cremation service in Bronx, NY is complete, you and your family will want to get your hands on their cremated remains as quickly as possible. But oftentimes, you’ll need to prepare to wait a week or more to actually obtain the remains. What takes a funeral home so long to get them back to you? There are several things that are going to force you to wait a little longer than you might expect to receive them. Learn more about them below.

Your loved one’s cremated remains need to be processed.

In the immediate aftermath of your loved one’s Bronx, NY cremation, a funeral home will have to take their cremated remains and process them for you. When your loved one is first cremated, their remains will resemble a small pile of bones that are all different sizes. A funeral home can take these remains and break them down so that they’re all small and uniform in size. It’ll enable you to take them home with you and keep them safe.

They must be placed into a cremation urn.

Once a funeral home has processed your loved one’s remains, the next thing they’ll do is place them into a cremation urn. This might seem like a simple enough task. But many times, a family will wait until the last minute to buy an urn for a loved one, which will lead to a slight delay in a funeral home getting the urn. This will be especially true when families opt to buy urns from third-party companies. You and your family should make it a point to purchase an urn for a loved one ASAP so that a funeral home has it handy when they need it.

They call for a funeral home to do quite a bit of paperwork.

As you could probably guess, there is a whole lot of paperwork that needs to be done by a funeral home before they can release a person’s remains to their family. This is the thing that will take the most time following a cremation and prevent you from getting a loved one’s remains back quickly. You should take a step back and give a funeral home the space they need to fill out all the necessary paperwork fast.

They need to be picked up.

After everything else is finished, then and only then can you go to a funeral home to pick a loved one’s remains. This is one more thing that could slow things down and put you in a position where you’ll get your loved one’s remains back later than expected. You should try to work something out with a funeral home so that you’re able to get your loved one’s remains back from them as soon as you can.

When it comes to carrying out Bronx, NY cremations, our funeral home tries to work as quickly as we can. It enables us to give families their loved one’s remains back fast. Give us a call to get additional information on how you can speed up the cremation process so that you can get your hands on a loved one’s remains in a hurry.