What Happens In Cremation

During cremation, a clean intense heat will quickly return your pet to his or her basic elements. Your pet’s cremains are returned to your home address, to your veterinarian or you can send your pet's ashes to Eternal Gem to process the cremains into a personal memorial tribute similar to that of a precious gemstone.

Meticulous and dignified, cremation allows for memorializing the loving relationship between you and your pet by returning all of your pet’s cremains which are specially packaged and sent back to you. You may wish to consider scattering your pet’s cremains, purchasing a traditional permanent urn or, you now have the alternative of memorializing the precious life of your companion animal in the form of an Eternal Gem.

Eternal Gem does not handle the cremation process. For a list of pet crematories near you, please click here:

What Exactly Are Cremated Remains?

“Ashes aren’t really ashes.” Cremated remains are fragments of bone left over from the cremation process. All tissue is consumed as well as most small bones but the large bones are not always completely consumed and must be ground up. This is what cremated remains are. It is sometimes a shock to the uninformed person who opens a box of cremated remains and expects to see fluffy ash.

The next step after cremation is memorialization– to create a physical remembrance– to ensure the memory of a life will remain forever. There are many ways to memorialize. (See our section on memorialization).
The most common method is to place ashes inside a permanent urn or to scatter the cremains over a favorite place.

Through our personal experiences– and our deep respect for animals– we have created this particular memorialization option for all pets. Creating an Eternal Gem from the cremains of your beloved animal companion is the next step after the cremation process in place of storing ashes in an urn on your mantel above the fireplace or perhaps in a closet.

Our Eternal Gem tribute is a beautiful, meaningful way to honor the life of your animal companion. With the Eternal Gem, memories of your pet live on forever and can be touched, kept close to your heart, held in your hand and shared with others.