How To Plan Your Prepaid Funeral

Mentioning someone’s burial ceremony before death may seem insensitive, but taking the first step in planning your own or a loved one’s funeral before death through a prepaid funeral is a thoughtful and practical decision.

This method of funeral planning will help you articulate how you best want to be remembered, rather than leaving the decision down to those who are in mourning. Read on to discover how a prepaid funeral allows you to proactively arrange the funeral for a guaranteed funeral plan post-mortem.

Consider Your Preferences

Envisioning your own funeral while alive springs to mind as absurd or imperceivable: sometimes it’s better to start simply by thinking about key preferences that will inspire the overall theme of your funeral. Personal choices like the ceremony’s order of service, music, readings and or venue will be the touchstones that cement you or a loved one’s memory in the attendant’s minds.

Choose a Funeral Plan that Suits You

A guaranteed (or prepaid) funeral plan will vary in cost based on which aspects of the funeral ceremony you would like covered in it. Callum Robertson offers four key types that are served in collaboration with Open prepaid funeral plans, which are: simple, traditional, select or unattended cremation services. Read our associated webpage to discover which is best for you.

Discuss With Loved Ones

Nobody should plan a ceremony entirely on their own. It’s not only an intense emotional burden to handle individually, but speaking with loved ones also disallows greater scope to consider the deceased’s funeral preferences.

If it’s your own funeral that you’re planning, this step is also vital in assuring that the plan for your funeral is followed exactly to your requirements as it will be an open discussion that broaches the topic in a more personal way while making clear the practical side of structured proceedings for the ceremony.

Secure the Plan and Keep it Safe

Once the emotionally taxing work of planning your own or a loved one’s prepaid funeral plan is complete, keeping a record of the plan in an accessible but secure place is essential. This document will not only be the gateway into your funeral provider’s creation of the service itself, but it’s also a financially costly document that can occasionally require expenses to reproduce.

Prepaid Funerals: Funerals You’re There to Plan

A prepaid funeral is one of the best investments you’ll make because it’s the only purchase surrounding your funeral with you still entirely involved in its processes. It’s a difficult thought to grapple with, but taking a proactive approach allows you to consider the shape of your life after death: a benefit to both yourself and your loved ones.

In the case where you’re planning a loved one’s prepaid funeral, the same is true in that this process guarantees they will be clearly remembered exactly how they want to be, without any cause for unnecessary financial anxiety during mourning.

We are able to discuss any specific queries you may have about a prepaid funeral today, by getting in touch at either our Leslie, Kirkcaldy or Dunfermline branches.