Introduction of New Lines of Memorial Products from Urns to Memorials to Monuments to Flag Cases by Memorials.com

Memorials.com already with the largest online selections in the memorial industry, has recently added a number of products to its line-up. These new additions reflect the website's goal of constantly striving to bring customers the vast array of creative, innovative — sometimes headline making — ideas that the memorial industry has to offer for families grieving the loss of a loved one.

Among the new additions to the memorial website a collections of Memorial Cremation Pillars has been added. These marble and granite cube shaped pieces stand between four and five feet tall and serve as excellent cemetery memorials for those who have been cremated. The pillars are available with a variety of designs that can be customized to include the deceased's name, dates and, in some cases, an inscription. The cremation remains are stored directly in the piece, and many families have found this to be a more comforting, even practical, alternative to burying the remains in an urn. Before Memorial Cremation Pillars were available, families wanting to create a cemetery memorial display for a person who had been cremated had little choice but to bury an urn in a typical cemetery plot (or sometimes half of a plot). This often meant that a beautifully designed urn, one that fit perfectly the personality and spirit of the deceased, would simply rest for the ages underground where it could not be appreciated by future generations. Memorial Cremation Pillars solve this dilemma. Families can now choose the perfect pillar and it will stand proudly for the ages as a tribute to the loved one's great life.

With thousands of Urns to choose from, Memorials.com already has the largest variety of cremation urns on the internet, and the sites' exciting, intriguing collection has become even larger in recent months. Memorials.com has added several new lines of glass urns, art urns, sculpted urns and nature urns to its selection. The new glass urns range from the colorful and complex to the traditional and simple. All of them designed and blown by talented craft people across the United States, and, in a few cases, the urns are blown after an order using a trace amount of the cremation ashes in the production process. The site's new selection of art and sculpted urns are made from a variety of materials — from bronze to glass to steel — and all are study, museum quality pieces of fine art that are perfect for any indoor memorial display ( a few of the metal pieces would even be suitable, perhaps for outdoor display).

Among the most intriguing — and potentially newsworthy — of the new products now available on memorials.com are the new, environmentally friendly monuments. This new line of upright markers is made from a very sturdy material produced from plants. This new material is being used in place of granite and other similar materials on construction projects of all types and has potential for becoming a universal choice for builders of all types in the coming years and decades. Its main advantage is that it is made from a renewable resource, unlike granite — of which there is only a finite amount on Earth. There is no danger, of course, of natural materials such as granite coming into low supply in the near future, but quarrying for granite can be destructive to the Earth's ecosystems. Many environmentally conscious people say this new material is the answer to long-term construction needs. While the material is made from plants, its makers say that it will stand up to the elements and time just as well as any other natural stone that is quarried from the Earth.

In addition to all of the new products offered on Memorials.com, the site also continues to offer a number of staples to the memorial industry Flag cases, for example, continue to be a key feature on the site. The company offers a variety of cases made from most all of the commonly commercially available woods: cherry, walnut, and oak. Flag cases from memorials.com are available in stand-alone models — in which the folded flag is displayed by itself with, perhaps, a brass name plate attached — or in combination with a number of accessories. Some of the flag cases available also have compartments designed to hold medallions and other military mementos. The accessories available with flag cases include a wooden pedestal that can include a cremation urn, and a stand upon which the flag case can be displayed. The company has long sold flag cases designed to hold the standard 5' x 9.5' sized flag that is presented to all families of U.S. military veterans, but memorials.com also has long offered flag cases that fit the 3'x5' ceremonial sized flags as well. In fact, some of the flag cases sold can be customized to fit either of the common sized flags.

Whether it is its long standing large selection of urns (many for less than $100), grave markers, cremation jewelry, or flag cases, or its exciting — and ever-growing — collection of new memorial products, Memorials.com is definitely an industry leader, with thousands of products to choose from. The website is also home to many articles that give consumers the information they need when searching for the right items with which to memorialize a beloved family member.

"We are very proud of all of our new products, and we think they will only add value to the selection that we already have. The memorial product industry is filled with exciting, innovative ideas that come about very regularly, and we take pride in staying on top of the new ideas so that our customers always have the best choices that are available on the market," said Memorials.com owner Ralf Heckenbach.