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Pre-arrange for one of the most difficult times for your loved ones
Plan Ahead
Pre-planning lets you create your own unique life celebration. Including your family in the planning process can help them feel connected to you both in life and in death, knowing that your arrangements reflect your desires. It also gives your loved ones more time and energy to focus on healing and remembrance.
Pre-payment generally means that you save money by being protected from inflation and price changes. We deposit all pre-payments into a trust fund, where it remains until needed. Pre-paying also provides peace of mind for your family, who won't have to figure out your funeral expenses when the time comes. We keep a record of your pre-planned arrangements and any pre-payments, and they're easily transferable to any funeral home in the United States.
Benefits of Planning
Emotional benefits
Ensuring your wishes are known before you pass away can alleviate the burden on loved ones during an already challenging time. Have you communicated whether you prefer burial or cremation? Let your preferences be known to provide your family clarity and peace of mind when the time comes.
Financial benefits
Pre-planning allows you to make financial arrangements, potentially easing the financial burden on your family members. Your funeral arrangements will reflect your wishes and values, ensuring a meaningful and respectful farewell that aligns with your beliefs and preferences.
Family benefits
Clear instructions help prevent disagreements among family members, fostering harmony during an emotional period. Pre-planning allows your family to focus on grieving and healing rather than logistical details, fostering emotional closure and support.
Why is it important?
Have the talk of a lifetime
Although we might have daily conversations with our loved ones, the most meaningful and deep ones don’t always happen. Having this kind of conversation can make a huge difference — it can help us see our loved ones in a different and more positive light, it can teach us valuable lessons, it can give us a clearer picture of the things they love, it can bring us closer together, and it can help us reaffirm to them how much we love them.
How to start?
We shouldn’t really wait for a special moment to start having these kinds of talks. We can do it anytime and anywhere, when we and our loved ones are comfortable — at home while we’re having meals together, out for a walk, gathered as a family, or playing games.
We could also sometimes start with visual prompts, like a photo or an entire photo album, a memento, or a souvenir. We can open up about past experiences while we’re at a memorable place, such as a church, a favorite restaurant, or an old park. These can be great ways to start a story.
Who to talk to?
We could have the talk of a lifetime with anyone we value, cherish, and love. It could be our grandparents, our parents, our siblings, our uncles and aunts, our cousins, our spouse, our children, our grandparents, or our friends. It also doesn’t have to be done only when we feel we or someone we love is at the end of their life. We’ll never really know what the future holds, so let us take the opportunities we still have with them while we still can.
You can prepay
Pre-payment generally means that you save money by being protected from inflation and price changes. We deposit all prepayments into a trust fund, where it remains until needed. Pre-paying also provides peace of mind for your family, who won't have to figure out your funeral expenses when the time comes.
What if I move?
We keep a record of your preplanned arrangements and any pre-payments, and they're easily transferable to any funeral home in the United States.
Where do I start?
Use our pre-planning form to make first contact with us. You may also call us to begin the process over the phone, or you can schedule a time to meet with our staff in-person to discuss your options and make a plan.