Pre Arrangement Process

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Pre-Arrangement Process

Benefits of a Pre Arrangements

Funeral pre planning is about much more than just recording your end-of-life wishes. It ensures your loved ones know how you want to be honored and cared for when the time comes. More importantly, it relieves them of the emotional and financial burdens that often result from rushing to make funeral arrangements. Instead, you can work alongside them to plan the service you want and make sure that they will have everything they need to grieve.

There is no detail too little to be left out, some individuals have even taken it upon themselves to write their own obituary or eulogy. For tips on writing an obituary, click here, or for tips on writing a eulogy, click here. When you take the time to pre plan a funeral, you can even choose from different options to prepay for the service ahead of time. Whether it’s a one-time payment of monthly instalments, our staff can offer a solution to meet your needs and budget. Pre-paying for your funeral provides you peace-of-mind that everything has been taken care of and protects your family from inflation and increasing prices. Take care of all the funeral pre-arrangement details and give you and your family the peace-of-mind you deserve.

Some of the other benefits of completing the funeral pre arrangement process are listed below:

It means there will be fewer opportunities for argument and indecision about your funeral arrangements among family members after you're gone. Coordinating a pre arranged funeral allows you to decide how you will be remembered. You have the ability to select the type of service you want and what parts of your life you want celebrated. Perhaps it’s your military career you want loved ones to honor. Maybe it’s your love of animals or charity work you want others to celebrate. You are in complete control of what the service will include when you preplan your funeral.
Your survivors will never have to worry about doing the wrong thing when finalizing your funeral arrangements. You will have told them exactly what you want. For information about arranging your estate, click here. If no arrangements have been made, a lot of things have to happen quickly in the first 24 hours after a death. When you take the time to prearrange a funeral service, you relieve your family from completing these tasks. They will know exactly what needs to be done. By taking all the guess work out of funeral planning, your family will not have the stress of not knowing what you wanted.
No mistakes and no oversights. After you're gone, everything will be done your way.
You have peace-of-mind now knowing that we will follow through with your wishes.
After your death, no one can make any decisions you wouldn't want.
Funeral pre-planning is the responsible thing to do. It removes the burden from family members.
You can make complex decisions ahead of time when you have the time to think things through.
Funeral pre-planning can involve pre-payment. This will save your family money and avoid any financial burdens. As with most things, inflation occurs every year and causes prices to increase. Pre-paying for your funeral makes sure that your funeral is not subject to rising costs or inflation. If you’d like to discuss pre-payment options and locking in funeral costs, please contact us. Funeral pre planning typically involves pre-payment and this will save your family money and avoid any financial burdens.
Funeral pre-planning involves an awareness of the reality of death.
You are almost guaranteed to get what you want.

The Basics of Pre Planning

Here's a break-down of the funeral pre planning process:

Set goals
Review limitations
Look at available options
Weigh the pros and cons of each option
Talk to others about the best options
Arrive at a final decision

In the case of funeral pre-arrangement, another two important steps are involved:

Write out your plan with as many details as possible
Send your plan to the funeral home and provide a copy to your executor

There are two ways for you to complete your funeral pre-arrangement plan.

Turn to the Professionals

If you are ready to begin pre-planning a funeral, we would be honored to assist you. Many people are more comfortable making these decisions with funeral professionals. In fact, we have been serving families in the Lower Mainland over for 20 years and during that time we've learned how to assist families plan loving and memorable funeral services that are tailored to their unique needs. If you would like us to help, please do not hesitate to contact us.