Pacific Interment Mortuary and Crematory

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Our Emeryville office

Both our San Francisco and Emeryville locations are full service mortuaries complete with chapels. As you can see from the photos in this album, our garden, atrium, chapels, and office spaces have all been designed and decorated with a quiet, elegant simplicity, and are completely handicapped accessible. Our chapels comfortably seat 50 people, and are available for 1 or 3 hour intervals. In Emeryville we also operate our own onsite crematory and embalming facility. We adhere to the highest professional standards in our operation, as evidenced by a spotless 14 year inspection record. Pacific Interment does all maintenance in-house, which allows for a level of excellence that would, under other circumstances, pass substantial cost on to the consumer.

"Pre-19th Century, it was women ('shrouding women') who prepared bodies for death in America. It was only the necessity of shipping bodies during the Civil War and later, the embalming of Abraham Lincoln's body for its cross-counrty train tour that normalized the embalming practice in this country (since it's obviously been practiced for ... thousands of years around the world.)" See more

What do you think about "liquid cremation"?

Here is an interesting article on mausoleums.

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