Preplanning
You’ve built your life with good decisions. Insure that the next chapter meets your expectations as well.
Pre–planning creates a legal agreement that ensures your body and much of the service will be carried out to your standards and wishes.
If you love to golf, why not hold a service with golf being the focal point, like golf bag, towel. tee’s, clubs even giving away golf balls with the deceased name on them? Did mom or dad like "Twinkies"? How about giving one to each person who attends their service? Let our highly trained staff assist you in creating a memorable service for the one you love.
Every day, in every way, we create meaningful experiences by customizing funerals to fit the lives of those who lived them.
A celebration of life helps the living. By holding a rite of remembrance, survivors achieve greater appreciation for those who have gone.
Our staff works to insure your vision is carried out throughout every detail. We can help you make all the arrangements from coordinating a spiritual leader, a champagne toast, or even a polka band!
10 Reasons to Pre-Fund Your Final Arrangements
Many people are against preplanning and prefunding a funeral. Please take a moment and read the reasons for prefunding. They really do make sense!
1. You remove the financial obligation and additional stress from your surviving spouse or children.
2. You eliminate family or sibling disagreements over costs and choices of goods and services desired.
The costs for final arrangements are paid at today’s prices, thus eliminating the problem with inflation.
You eliminate “emotional overspending,” which often occurs when arrangements are not pre-planned
5. You can select the terms to suit your budget.
When using insurance-funded products, your pre-need arrangements can be transferred if you move.
For those who qualify, and death occurs during the payment period, the prepaid services may be paid in full.
If a Medicaid spend-down becomes necessary, prearrangements are not considered an asset.
Other life insurance proceeds are available to assist a surviving spouse maintain current lifestyle and to settle other expenses such as hospitalization or estate liquidation.
10. You create peace of mind for you and your family, knowing that everything is taken care of in advance.
Personalized funerals are a way to express the things that were important to you in your life, to demonstrate a lasting eternal impression of you.
It also is a very touching and intimate way for your family to sense you and bring closure for them.
Personal Life celebrations help create grieving moments for your loved ones, allowing them to draw close to one another, to share remembrances of you.
Through these experiences, emotion is transmuted from grief to heartfelt appreciation, from pain to love and from despair to hope.
Pre-planning your funeral ensures that your wishes are carried out. It relieves your family and loved ones of the cost, worry and stress, giving them a chance to heal and remember what a unique reflection you left on their lives.
We can assist you in preparing for the expenses of your funeral so that your family doesn’t have to. Pre-planning also allows you to lock in a price, that won’t be affected by inflation, and there is no income tax liability.
We can help you set money aside each year, or provide for you the details of how the Medicare spending down program works.
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