Funeral homes receive ashes, but they can purchase burial (storage) tombs and spaces in cemeteries, columbariums (halls) or columbariums set up by religious departments by cremation certificates and procedures for storing ashes, or other procedures for handling ashes agreed by municipal civil affairs departments (you can also find the neighborhood committees where the household registration is located). The family members of the bereaved family shall collect the ashes from the funeral home with the certificate of ashes placement issued by the ashes storage institution and the bill (original) for purchasing graves and spaces, and provide a copy of the bill to the funeral home for the record.

Cremation procedure:

1. After the death of a relative, the family or unit of the deceased must obtain a death certificate. Normal death, medical death certificate issued by medical and health institutions. In case of abnormal death, the public security and judicial departments at or above the county level shall issue death certificates. The family of the deceased took the death certificate to the resident police station to cancel the account.

2. Call or send someone to the funeral home or funeral service station for cremation, and register the name, address, age, sex, cause of death, time of death, location of the body and domicile of the deceased; Register the name, address, telephone number of family members and the relationship between the deceased, and book service items and service hours.

According to the scheduled time, the family members wait for the hearse to pick up the body at the designated place with the death certificate. The body is transported to the funeral home; Plastic surgery, farewell to the remains, cremation of the remains, purchase of urns, receipt of cremation certificates, and collection of ashes. Put the ashes in the selected way and get the ashes storage certificate. Since then, the family members have come to the cemetery to offer sacrifices with this card.

Legal basis:

Article 5 In areas where cremation is practiced, the state advocates disposing of ashes in a way that does not occupy or occupies less land, such as storing ashes. The people's governments at the county level and the people's governments of cities and autonomous prefectures divided into districts shall formulate specific plans for cremation, and incorporate the new construction and transformation of funeral parlours, crematoriums and columbariums into urban and rural construction plans and capital construction plans.

In areas where burial is allowed, the people's governments at the county level and the people's governments of cities and autonomous prefectures divided into districts shall incorporate cemetery construction into urban and rural construction plans.

Thirteenth remains must comply with the following provisions:

(a) The transport of the remains must undergo necessary technical treatment to ensure hygiene and prevent environmental pollution;

(two) the cremation of the remains must be based on the death certificate issued by the public security organ or the medical institution designated by the administrative department of health of the State Council.