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Show As The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH/NATION Computer Age Offers New Ways To Remember Continued from A-1 textures and shading depending on the amount of pressure applied through the blasting hose. A final blasting stage creates deeper, finer lines that can be painted to high- pee and other design etails. Computerized, laser-etched photographs also are becoming increasingly popular, replacing more traditional ceramic photo A Care Bear sitting on a fluffy cloud, carved out on oneside ofthe granite stone, blows heart-shaped kisses over a rainbow toward a color, porcelain-mounted photo of Riley, his “Angel Face” nickname inscribed below. Under the rainbow the family added: “We Love Our SunshineBoy!” “It’s difficult to do something like that but it makes you feel good,” Young said. “It’s one of the last kinds of thing you can dofor applications that are more prone to damage from lawn mowers and maintenance equipment. Average- sized granite markers, including customized images, run between $500-$1,200, Larkin said. Adding laser photos, which are processed by ashopin California, typically costs another i “The whole industry is headed towardpersonalization — what do you want?” said Larkin, whose your child, as amemorial. To make companyrecently becamethefirst in Utah to create custom markers it personalized, rather than a name for mausoleums. “It’s part of the and a date and a flower ... it meanta lotto us.” In 1985, when Lance Larkin started Rocky Mountain Monu- ment & Vault, a wholly owned subsidiary of his family’s Larkin Memorial Corp., markers were blasted by hand over imprints left on the stone from rubberstencil blocks. Families had a couple dozen standard designs to choose from. “It was basically pick your standard design and plug your namein,” Larkin said. That all changed with computers. Now artists pull together designs on their computer screens. They can draw from thousands of images, whetherreligious icons or sports figures. They can use dozens of fonts in every alphabet, even put in a person’s signature a family brings in for scanning. Thefinal healing process.” Casket makers across the country also are using new technology to quickly respond to customized requests, such as computerized photos and artwork etched onto exteriors. Unlike headstones, whichtypically take four weeks to complete and maynotbe placed in most Utah cemeteries during the “Some wrote‘I love you’ and ‘T’ll miss you,’” Soffe recalled. “It brought a lot of comfort to the mother.” Another family, Soffe said, ordered a casket covered with the In the shop, crafters sandblast the stenciled design onto a pol- color picture of a mountain scene that reminded themofa place they used to camp. The makerof that + Memorial POTTERY aja Weekend Pot & Planter SALE 30 to 50% OFF Special Groupincludes Close Outs, Oneof a kinds and Manufacturer’s Samples. Patio Fireplaces golfers, violins or other instru- Salt Lake Temple and other religious scenes to its “Return To Sender” model, complete with an express delivery stamp, and the “Fairway to Heaven”version with brilliant green golf course under blue skies. Prices vary dramatically for caskets depending on what they’re made of and any custom touches ments for musicians. Outdoor themes are especially pepular in Utah, from decorating the funeral parlor with rustic furniture to holding services at a ski resort. “It is a tremendous amount of change,” Soffe said. “For some funeral directors, it is difficult to embrace. In their minds,it is not paying tribute as they have been taught the tribute should be paid. However, they’re also seeing the value, because the families are involved, but a common price range is $1,400 to $1,700, Soffe said; usually higherfor an Art Casket. Special Group 50%OFF Sun & Handle Jars Compare at $19.99 to $24.99 Highland House sofa. Sage-green cover. 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Founded in 1882, it is the largest funeral service organization in the world with 15,000 members. Kelly Smith, with the National Funeral Directors Association, cites increased mobility and geographical distances between families as large factors in the change. “Ifyou go backto thefirst halfof the century, we had relatively staid society. It was not unusual for someone to be born, raised, educated, employed, married and buried all in the same community, the same city block, the same farm house,”he said. “During this period of time there were clearly defined religious, ethnic, cultural Floor-Sample Clearance! caskets. The mortuary recently ordered one, made ofsteel and cov- ically to a machine known asplot- different nished with clubs and balls for range from a vivid portrait of the ered in a cream-colored paint from Salt Lake City-based Midwest Casket Co., that allowed family and friends of a young suicide victim to write messages on theoutside with permanent markers. zor blades cut the design into a large rubber stencil mat, which is then applied to the gravestone. creating Themefunerals also are becoming more common,Soffe said. Flower arrangements can be gar- with custom or stock pictures that Mortuary in Murray, regularly sees orders for highly personalized ter. In place of an ink jet, three ra- stone, Source: National Funeral DirectorsAssociation ket line, adorning casket exteriors mom and dad divorced on opposite coasts, kids going to schoolin various states. “Often there is an attempt by the family to individualize or personalize a service. And as is becoming more difficult to de- fine, with many ethnic, religious and nonreligious ceremonies being offered, according to the Na- family-owned funeral homes and average 57 years in business. casket, WhiteLight of Dallas, has created a splash with its Art Cas- ,” Smith said. To- saying how much value it has in their lives.” Indeed, the traditional funeral @ There are more than 22,100funeral homes in theUnited States employing about 35,000 licensed funeral directors/embalmers and 89,000 additional funeral service and crematory personnel. M@ There were 2,338,070 deaths in the United States during the 12-month period ending December 1998, or 8.65 deaths per thousand population. 1 Ofthe more than 2.3 million deaths nationwide in 1998, nearly 76 percentresulted in earth burial or entombment and about 24 percentresulted in cremation. @ The average costof a funeral, from the National Funeral Directors Association’s 1999 General Price List survey,is $5,020.36 for an adult funeral. 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