Both my MIL and FIL were cremated. Their cremains were entered into a beautiful column at a cemetery in Pittsburgh. The cremations were handled by a funeral home inexpensively compared to a traditional funeral. I have made the same arrangements for my mother. Just be sure you are dealing with a reputable funeral home. If the price seems too high, call another one. We bought all of the urns for the people mentioned here online. As a previous poster said, they are much cheaper online and the selection is larger. My husband and I plan to have our cremains placed into a single urn. There are many beautiful ones available.
As for the cremains being "chunky" instead of sandy, that is normal. Bones often do not turn to dust in the cremation process. Sometimes the cremains actually need to be pulverized to get them into a proper consistency to put into an urn. I hope I'm not being too graphic, but that's the way it is.
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