A columbarium system that facilitates simplified and less expensive manufacture and assembly. The new columbarium system includes glass or stone fronts for the niches that can be readily personalized and more readily replaced. The columbarium system includes a set of interlocking panels for creating the box or niche network by providing the walls, floors, and ceilings of the niches (or boxes). A set of extrusions or structural members are included in the system to enhance the structural integrity (e.g., vertical and horizontal stability and strength) of the assembled plates and also to receive and retain a plurality of fronts or shutters in the columbarium system. A U-shaped gasket or sealing member, which may be formed of silicone or other resilient and weather resistant material, is provided that extends about the perimeter of each front to protect each niche or box from the elements.

A burial system comprising: one or more rectangular burial spaces, each confined by grave walls generated by cutting with a filament from a block of foamed polystyrene or other expanded polystyrene substance, thereby enabling reducing weight of burial elements of the burial system by at least 90% in comparison to concrete burial elements (the prior art), and providing ease of construction effort in comparison to concrete burial systems. The innovative saturated burial system is supposed to sustain for hundreds of years. The saturated burial system may be applied on a single burial arrangement, as well as on a double burial arrangement, and a multi-story crypt burial arrangement.

A storage facility for objects of paying of respects includes a plurality of storage locations each configured to store an object of paying of respects including a container and one or more items held in the container, a respects-paying area, and a transport system configured to transport an object of paying of respects between the storage location and a support location provided in the respects-paying area. The container is provided with a container window configured to allow a person, visiting to pay respects, to view inside the container. A work area is provided at a location separate from the respects-paying area. Provided in the work area is a work-purpose support location where a container is supported when performing replacement work on one or more items. The transport system is further configured to also transport an object of paying of respects between the storage location and the work-purpose support location.

A modular crypt structure comprising a frame, a module insert defining a chamber and a closure panel and methods of constructing the same are disclosed. The chamber functions as a crypt module and is adapted to receive bodily remains or portions thereof. The chamber is closed by attaching a closure panel, such as a stone crypt front to the frame, thereby encapsulating bodily remains. The modular crypt structure may comprise a plurality of chambers, thereby providing a plurality of crypt modules, and the frame may comprise a plurality of horizontal bars and a plurality of vertical bars. A method of constructing a modular crypt structure comprises erecting a frame, providing at least one module insert, configuring the insert to define a chamber adapted to receive bodily remains, and closing the crypt module.

A columbarium for housing a plurality of cremation urns including a columbarium base and a plurality of vertical openings in the base interior, the vertical openings for the storage of cremation urns. The columbarium includes a plurality of slab members secured to the base side surfaces and a lid securable to the slab member upper portions. The columbarium includes a lock assembly for securing the lid to the columbarium base including a slide catch disposed on an interior portion of the lid and a latch assembly having a latch member. The latch assembly is secured to the columbarium base and is rotatingly engageable with the slide catch by rotation of a horizontal shaft having a free end with a male or female portion aligned with the side key opening. The lock assembly includes a key having a male or female portion for mating with the latch assembly shaft. The lid is removable by inserting the key in the key opening, engaging the key male or female portion with the latch assembly shaft male or female portion and rotating the key until a free end of the latch member disengages the slide catch.

An interment system, includes: (a) at least one desiccation vessel for storing remains of a decedent who has not been cremated; (b) a plurality of memorial suites configured to house the at least one desiccation vessel, each of which includes a storage area for the at least one desiccation vessel, a living area, a vertically-oriented tribute wall separating the storage area from the living area, and an HVAC unit, which is configured to adjust at least one of a temperature, a pressure and a humidity within the at least one desiccation vessel to adjust a rate of desiccation; (c) a processor configured to securely store and share decedent data. The at least one desiccation vessel is sufficiently light, durable, and air-tight such that the at least one desiccation vessel with the decedent contained therein can be easily relocated without the need for special vehicles or trained personnel.

A columbarium niche storage system includes a plurality of niche containers, which are stored in a three-dimensional array, one or more transportation devices that transport the niche containers, a control device that controls movements of and access to the niche containers, a storage structure that comprises storage spaces for storing the niche containers, and transportation tracks for the transportation devices, wherein the storage spaces comprise the three-dimensional array; and one or more viewing spaces. The transportation device comprises a horizontal linear movement device and a vertical linear movement device. The transportation device retrieves the niche container that was requested by a user of the viewing space from the storage space of the niche container and positions it into the viewing space for viewing by the user.

A funerary containment structure for funerary objects, which comprises a base structure, which defines at least one niche, which is designed to contain at least one funerary object and has at least one access opening, which is closed by way of at least one slab which is fixed to the base structure; at least one auxiliary device which has a supporting body which is connected to the base structure and supports at least one supporting arm, which extends laterally from the supporting body; fixing elements for fixing at least one ornamental object to the free end of the supporting arm are furthermore provided.

A modular crypt structure comprising a frame, a module insert defining a chamber and a closure panel and methods of constructing the same are disclosed. The chamber functions as a crypt module and receives bodily remains or portions thereof. The chamber is closed by attaching a closure panel, such as a stone crypt front to the frame. The modular crypt frame may comprise a plurality of horizontal bars and a plurality of vertical bars. A method of constructing a modular crypt structure comprises erecting a frame, providing at least one module insert, configuring the insert to define a chamber adapted to receive bodily remains, and closing the crypt module. A modular crypt system including a niche side wall is also disclosed having a niche side wall frame, a niche insert defining a plurality of niches positioned within the frame, and a closure panel positioned on the niche side wall frame.

A repository system includes a first repository side panel including a plurality of first memorial apertures and a second repository side panel including a plurality of second memorial apertures. The first and second repository side panels interfacing at a corner region. A first corner portion of the first memorial apertures of the first repository side panel and a second corner portion of the second memorial apertures of the second repository panel neighbor each other in the corner region. The first memorial apertures of the first corner portion and the second memorial apertures of the second corner portion have vertical positions that are offset in the vertical direction.