Taking care of prepaid funeral expenses and funeral pre-planning can be a surprisingly empowering experience. It gives you a sense of control over your end-of-life experience, ensuring that things can go just the way you hope they ought to. Here are a few surprising benefits of prepaid funeral expenses.

Think of prepaid funeral expenses as an essential part of your end-of-life planning. Just like your writing your will and getting your estate planning in order. It can be very freeing to make these arrangements in advance, and offer you a great deal of peace of mind. Go through all the details together with your partner or another family member to ensure you are both on the same page as your make your plans.

When funeral expenses are pre-paid, the expenses will be covered at the rates you purchased them at. Even if that was years before. You’ll save yourself and your family the risk of inflated prices, and have the confidence that a financial burden has been lifted from your loved ones.

Pre-planning your funeral in advance allows you to plan out the service you hope for in detail. You get to choose how you would like your life celebrated. In addition to choosing the type of service, you can decide on monuments, caskets, and even what you wish to be wearing. By putting your wishes in writing and discussing them with your family, it will help make things go as smoothly as possible for your loved ones when the time comes.

Making decisions while in the midst of processing grief isn’t easy for anyone. Unfortunately, planning a funeral involves making lots and lots of choices. By pre-planning your funeral and choosing pre-paid funeral options, you can have the peace of mind of knowing that those decisions have already been made. It can be a wonderful gift for your family that you can choose to give them today.

If you’re interested in getting started on pre-planning a funeral, contact us at  (434) 237-9424.