Why preplan your Cremation?
Thinking about end of life issues leaves most people feeling a little uneasy but more adults are finding great emotional and even financial security for them and their families. How? Preplan your cremation.
With preplanning families find comfort in knowing that cremation reflects what their loved one wanted. It also gives peace of mind to not have to make important decisions at a stressful time.
Preplanning frees family from risk, bickering, uncertainty, increasing worry and additional grief. It removes possible conflict and misunderstanding about your wishes among immediate family or “blended” family members at an emotional time.
Have you ever given any thought as to how you want to be remembered? Maybe you had a long career in the military that you would like to celebrate. Maybe you love animals and would like to encourage donations in your memory to your local humane society. When you prearrange you put your wishes down on paper so your loved ones will know exactly how to celebrate your life and your memory.
You’ll make it easier on your loved ones. Did you know that there are more than 70 details that need to be tended to in the first 24 hours of a death? Are your loved ones ready for all that responsibility? When you prearrange you make the first 24 hours easier on your loved ones, you can also save them money. The stress of making last minute arrangements often causes people to make unnecessary purchases. By taking care of the arrangements yourself you free them from spending more that they need to. They will know exactly what needs to be done.
Irrevocable Trusts can also make prepaid funds Medicaid/SSI exempt. Prepaying your cremation expenses protects your assets from confiscation due to long term care expenses. It safeguards your savings and life insurance assets for your family. It protects you against the risk of inflation. Once you fund your prearrangement, your cremation will never increase in cost regardless what the prices are at the time of need.
Isn’t it time you considered Preplanning?
Kelly says
May 13, 2015 at 12:18 amThank you again for explaining something that can often be an awkward conversation to have – honestly, this is something that I haven’t given much thought about, however I would also hate to leave so much extra worry for my loved ones. If something was to happen to me, I already know that my family would be devastated, if I can do anything to make it at least a little bit easier, than of course, I will want to do that.
Andrea Robinson says
May 13, 2015 at 12:46 pmReading these articles has given me some reason to reflect on my own end-of-life choices. I’m rather lucky, because my parents made such amazing, enlightened, and practical choices and really paved the way. They both took care of their own cremation arrangements and set up their finances so that everything would go smoothly. I lost my mom in 2010, and I had a lot more time to focus on comforting my dad (stepfather) after her passing as a result.
People are really afraid of death, and although I believe in survival instinct, I also feel that there’s a little irrational fear in our society around the subject of death. Every living creature, even a plant, has a lifetime and everyone, even a plant, is reborn when the seeds hit the ground or the offspring come into this world. If I could say any one comforting thing to the people in this planet, it would be that nobody need fear the passing of this body — you wouldn’t want to stay in it forever anyway. I personally feel that my mom is very much alive, only I can’t see her (but then I realize that some people will think I’m crazy for saying it).
The thing that lives forever is love. Yes, we must have proper end-of-life arrangements, and we must have celebrations to honor our loved ones. And we must grieve, because we know we won’t see our loved ones again until we cross over also. But the love that we feel lives on.
I want to thank you for providing a forum where we can learn about all the 70 things that we need to know about end-of-life duties, and also a forum where we can express ourselves on this vital topic.
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Ann Abbitz says
May 13, 2015 at 8:31 pmMy father passed away a couple years ago, he was cremated. And my mother has also opted for cremation, to ease the financial burden of a typical burial. As I read more and more of the blogs here, I am seriously thinking of getting some paperwork made up. I can’t imagine my husband having to deal with this, on top of the stress of dealing with the emotional baggage that comes with it.
Josh Robbins says
May 18, 2015 at 8:43 pmI think I have done some pre-planning for my family. They know my wishes, I have resolved the financial issues and some of the details, but I am concerned when I read that there are 70 details that need to be resolved. My list is not that long. What are those 70 details and what have I missed?