Memorialization structures, niches, and methods for manufacturing niches having a recess or cavity that is accessible after installation of the memorialization structures and/or post-burial or post-entombment of a deceased are generally described. In some embodiments, a memorialization niche may include a recess and a door configured to enclose the recess. The door may include a lock configured to prevent public access to the recess. A patron associated with the niche may unlock the door and access the recess. The patron may remove objects from and/or insert objects into the recess post-burial or -entombment of the deceased without disturbing the memorialization structure and/or adjacent memorialization structures and/or requiring a memorial operator to unseal the recess. Accordingly, the patron may continually update the personalization effects of a memorialization structure and achieve a dynamic memorial for the deceased while maintaining the security of any bodily remains and/or personal objects stored in the recess.

An in-ground niche is disclosed. Example in-ground niches can comprise containers of appropriate size and shape for human or animal cremated remains storage. A portion of an in-ground niche can define an in-ground storage cavity, while another portion thereof can provide a lid support structure for a lid that is positionable on or above ground level. An in-ground niche can also comprise attachment points, both for security bolts to secure the lid to the lid support structure, and for anchor rods to anchor the in-ground niche in the ground.

The present disclosure is directed to a new urn display device (urn pedestal) for displaying an urn during a funeral ceremony. The urn display device includes a base that covers and encloses the burial opening where the urn is placed after the ceremony, provides a safe “floor” for anyone approaching the urn, and a central hole in the base that allows the urn to be passed through the base into a burial opening after the ceremony.

The embodied invention is a multi-vault memorial facility with a memorial room and an interactive system for storing and providing memorial information of the deceased. The meeting room includes memorabilia and access to a secure personal biographical database which includes historical and personal information about the deceased. An interactive user interface for a visiting person is used when at the facility. The personal biography database security is provided by administration control for access and identifies who can modify the database. The interactive user interface utilizes visual and audio presentations, and a conversational user interface with a likeness and a digital memory of the deceased. A computer projection talks with a visitor and mimics responses of the deceased.

The disclosed urn vault comprises a polymeric box having one or more side walls and either a top or base. In some embodiments, the polymeric box is open at the bottom and lowers onto the base. In some embodiments, the polymeric box is open at the top, and a lid lowers onto the polymeric box's top opening. In some embodiments, the top surface of the base comprises guide rails or channels, located equidistant from the outside base edge on all sides of the base. These guide rails or channels are the fastening guide for the polymeric box, which lowers onto the base. In some embodiments, the lid comprises a top lid panel coupled to a smaller bottom lid panel. The lid lowers onto the polymeric box, and the top lid panel and bottom lid panel engage with the side walls of the polymeric box.

A columbarium and ossuary system includes a five side columbarium. An obelisk like section includes a vertically extending central frame member. The central frame member has frame assemblies radiating outward from the central frame member. A plurality of niches are disposed about the central hub and supported by the hub. Each of the niches has an outer opening and sides abutting adjacent ones of the frame assemblies and converging from the outer opening towards the central hub. The lower section having a plurality of niches surrounding a center ossuary. A delivery chute is detachably mountable to the columbarium for pivoting to tilt the chute and deliver flexible urns to the ossuary.

A memorial object including inner cremation contents, and a housing structure for housing the inner cremation contents, the housing structure being made of at least a first fluid, wherein the housing structure is maintainable in a predetermined solid shape only upon maintenance of the housing structure under a freezing temperature of the first fluid. Preferably the fluid is water. The invention provides a sustainable method of making a dissolvable memorial object or urn by transforming water into solid shape of ice encapsulating cremation ashes.

A funerary structure for containing funerary objects, which comprises a base framework provided with a plurality of profiled elements which are arranged along at least two directions and can be fixed to a supporting wall. The profiled elements delimit laterally at least one containment recess for funerary objects. There is at least one slab for closing the recess, which can be fixed, by virtue of fixing elements, to the base framework on the opposite side with respect to the supporting wall.

The lightweight columbarium comprises a rigid frame made of a frame material, a number of decorative panels made of a decorative panel material, panel attachments for attaching the decorative panels to the rigid frame, and an enclosure defined within said decorative panels and said frame, for receiving a funeral urn. The frame material is less fragile than the decorative panel material and allows the frame to provide structural rigidity to the columbarium at less weight than if only the decorative panel material were used. The columbarium may be transported on a ritual transporter comprising a columbarium bed for carrying the columbarium and handles attached to the columbarium bed for transporting the transporter. The columbarium may be stored in a crate comprising a rigid protective shell attached to the columbarium externally thereof for protecting the columbarium against impacts; and an opening provided in the protective shell that is aligned with the bottom of the columbarium. The columbarium may be removed from the crate and installed on a base using a prop sized to fit within a shell opening in the crate so as to abut against the bottom of the columbarium and to protrude beyond the shell, for allowing the columbarium to rest on prop when the prop rests on the ground for facilitating egress of the columbarium from the crate and installation of the columbarium on the base.

A memorial such as for displaying cremain remains, including a superstructure defining an open interior. A removable top piece is attached atop the superstructure for permitting access to a cremain holding enclosure supported within the interior. The removable top piece includes any of a lamp, globe, planter or birdbath. A solar lighting element is incorporated into the removable top piece. A window is configured within the superstructure for viewing the internally held cremain holding enclosure. The enclosure further incorporates each of a bottom cap, sleeve shaped body and top cap. The bottom cap defines a platform for the cremain enclosure secured within the interior in order to array the cremain enclosure level with the viewing window.