Pre-Planning
Planning Ahead Makes Sense
Pre-planning a funeral is the most important gift you will give your family and it will offer them the lasting peace of knowing they have acted in accordance with your wishes. Pre-planning when everyone is healthy and vibrant allows you time to discuss, reflect, and decide the best plan for your family. Waiting until someone is ill or elderly causes you to make decisions during times of deep emotion. Our online questionnaire or an appointment with one of our funeral counselors will guide you in making these complex decisions.
Planning Ahead:
- Frees your family from having to make difficult decisions during a time of emotional distress.
- Gives you the chance to gather information and make choices about cremation or burial, location, casket, Urn, etc. without a time pressure.
- Lets you complete a pre-arranged agreement, listing each item, the services selected and even arrange for items incidental to the ceremony. Because it’s your plan, your family will know they have acted in accordance with your wishes.
- Creates a file at our facility that records your wishes whether you choose to pay now or wait until later.
- Gives you the opportunity to pay for your funeral costs over a period of time, with monthly payments for either 1,3, or 5 years.
- Locks in the cost of your funeral when you pay ahead. The funeral home guarantees your family will never pay more for most goods and services selected today, regardless of the future price increases. Costs we call “cash advances” can not be guaranteed.
- Allows funeral expenses to be irrevocably assigned to the funeral home assisting you in qualifying for Medicaid or any other form of public assistance.
- Gives you the freedom to transfer your “Plan” to another funeral home should you move out of the area in the future.
Planning Ahead means you have talked with a funeral counselor and given them the data needed to complete legal documents at the time of your death, described your wishes for funeral services and merchandise, and identified where you would like to be buried or have your ashes placed. It may include pre paying but that is not required.
With hundreds of details to coordinate, families who take the time to think through decisions are able to plan more meaningful funerals and they themselves seem more relaxed as they go through the emotional time of grief.