In the Maine city where Pet Sematary author Stephen King resided for many years, a cemetery is allowing humans and their pets to be buried together.
Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor also happens to be featured in several scenes of the movie adaptation of the horror novel. So it seems fitting that this year, the cemetery began allowing the cremated remains of pets to be buried alongside their people
– in a specific whole family lot portion of the cemetery. It s believed to be the first in the state to do so. This will help ensure you will always be with your faithful companion forever, the Mount Hope website reads.
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Trey Hall, a director at Gentry-Morrison Funeral Homes in Lakeland, said some families have already applied and received payment from FEMA for services that his company provided.
“Relieved, in many cases,” Hall said in describing the reactions of families. “They had this unexpected expense due to COVID of funeral arrangements, and so it’s been a really big help financially to those families that are already having a tough time. So obviously it’s been received very well.”
Hall, who serves on the board of directors for the Florida Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association, said Gentry-Morrison’s staff began notifying families who had already paid for the services of someone who died of complications from COVID-19 to let them know about the FEMA program.
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