4 Things You Need To Decide When Pre-Arranging Your Funeral

Pre-arranging your funeral helps ensure that when you pass away, there is not a large financial cost associated with your passing that your family has to deal with. Pre-arranging a funeral also gives you greater control over how your funeral is held and what happens when you die.

Determine How You Want Your Remains Handled

The first thing that you have to decide before you move forward with your funeral plans is how you want to be buried. Do you want to be cremated or do you want to be buried? If you want to be buried, where do you want to be buried? You need to ask these questions before you can move forward with your funeral arrangements.

Planning for Your Remains

Once you decide how you want your remains handled, you need to then plan for your remains. If you want to be cremated, that means pre-paying for the cremation process from a funeral home and picking out an urn. You should also include instructions about what you want your family to do with your ashes as well.

If you want to be buried, there are a few more steps that you are going to need to take care. You are going to need to pay a funeral home to handle your body after you pass away. You are going to need to purchase or pre-pay for a coffin. You are also going to need to determine where you want to be buried and purchase a plot at the cemetery where you want to be buried.

Planning for Your Service

After you plan for your remains, you need to plan for your service. Do you want the service held at a funeral home? At your local church? Or at another venue that is meaningful to you? Do you want a funeral director or pastor to preside over your funeral?

If you want a funeral service at a funeral home or church, and you want a funeral director or pastor to oversee the funeral, you can pre-pay for this type of service. If you want to rent out an event venue, you can set aside money for this type of service so that your loved ones can easily pay for this type of service later on.

If you want to reduce the stress on your loved ones when you eventually pass away, you are going to want to determine how you want your remains handled and what type of service you want, and either pre-pay or set aside money for that type of service so that your family doesn't have to worry about the financial burden of a funeral and burial when you pass away.

Contact a local funeral home or crematory to learn more.

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