Give your loved one a dignified and modest send off with our attended cremation services.
Say goodbye together with your closest friends and family. Our two low cost cremation with service options include either a 10 minute service for up to 8 attendees or a 20 minute service for up to 20 attendees.
You can witness the committal of the coffin and take time to remember your loved one in your way. You may like to give a reading, have a few moments of quiet reflection or play a piece of music in honour of the deceased.
For those who don’t wish to have any mourners present at the cremation, we also offer our Unattended Cremation service.
Planning for the future? Our Small Attended Cremation Plans allow you to choose and pay for an attended cremation funeral in advance so that everything is sorted when the time comes.
Alternatively, view our price list or our CMA standardised price list to get a full breakdown of everything that's included and not included. For further details, please read our terms & conditions.
Our optional extra can be added for £100 and includes:
Our attended cremation is available at any of our 40 crematoriums across the UK
To arrange a low cost attended service straight away, call our compassionate and knowledgeable Customer Service Specialists.
If your loved one is near to death and you would like more information before making funeral arrangements, you can also download a free guide to our funeral services.
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You can say farewell to your loved one in an alternative way to the traditional funeral with our low cost unattended direct cremations.
A respectful cremation will take place. The ashes can be scattered at the crematorium gardens or personally returned to you by our team so you can memorialise your loved one in your own way.
View unattended cremationBelow are a selection of reviews from those who have purchased a funeral through Distinct Cremations.
These are the steps in the process when you choose one of our attended cremation services for your loved one. Your loved one's dignity and care will always be prioritised and you will be kept informed throughout each stage of the arrangements.
Call us to begin getting your arrangements in place and for support with the necessary forms and paperwork
Our team care for your loved one at our professional mortuary whilst you plan a service to suit their wishes
Following cremation at one of our UK crematoriums, the ashes will be personally returned within 14 days
We will collect your loved one via private ambulance from their place of rest and bring them into our care
Your loved one will be resting in the chapel ready for your family-led, affordable attended funeral service
While we endeavour to cremate the deceased as soon as possible following the service this isn't always possible. However, the cremation is always completed with 24-hours of arrival at the crematorium. Learn more about how long after death is a cremation.
Upon arranging a funeral, once you’ve agreed the type of service that you’d like, one of our Customer Service Specialists will take the payment in full, which can be made by credit or debit card.
Our crematoria feature state-of-the-art downloadable music systems, allowing us to play any piece of music you want as long as it's been commercially recorded and released.
We’ll keep the deceased dressed in the same clothes they were wearing when they entered our care unless otherwise requested. If you’ve got a specific outfit you’d like them to wear, just let us know and provide it prior to the cremation.
There are lots of things you can do with the ashes. Many people scatter ashes in a place that was special to the deceased, some keep them in an urn as a keepsake and others have recently started to have ashes turned into jewellery or glass.
Yes, you can attend a direct cremation. Though most direct cremations are unattended, with Distinct Cremations you can attend a direct cremation with services lasting up to 20 minutes for 20 people.
Attended cremation costs vary between direct cremation providers, but the average attended cremation cost in the UK is £3,795.* At Distinct Cremations, our prices for an affordable memorial service start at just £1,599.
* The average cost of cremation in 2023 (SunLife Cost of Dying Report 2024, sunlife.co.uk/funeral-costs)
At Distinct Cremations, we provide two attended cremation services that give your family and loved ones the opportunity to pay their respects. Our attended cremations accommodate either up to 8 or up to 20 attendees ensuring a dignified and cheap memorial service.
See how our attended cremations compare with other providers.
Cremation service lengths can vary depending on the type of farewell you would like. With our attended cremation services, we offer two service lengths. You can choose to have a service lasting for either 10 or 20 minutes. The time can be used to share memories of your loved one, play a piece of music in honour of the deceased, give a eulogy or simply have a moment of quiet reflection.
For an unattended cremation, there’s no service held before the cremation takes place.
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