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Funeral PrePlan for Individuals and Families
While no one wants to think about their funeral, planning can ease the burden of your loved ones after your passing. Funeral PrePlan is here to help you find a funeral home that offers a variety of preneed and at-need services and provides the resources you need to choose the funeral home that is right for you.
Funeral Preplan can provide you with crucial resources to help guide your funeral planning, make choices that will support your loved ones in fulfilling your end-of-life wishes, and connect you with funeral homes that best fit your needs.
We have four main tools to assist you in your preplanning processes:
- Preplanning Guide: This free guide can help you understand each part of the funeral preplanning process, and important factors to consider, and gives your loved ones an outline of how you would like to be honored. Funeral preplanning can help you ensure your wishes are communicated clearly and allow you to plan for the expenses of a funeral, which can help eliminate decision-making and potential conflicts in your family following your passing, easing a difficult and emotional time for them.
- Cremation Guide: Cremation has become increasingly popular, nearly 60% of people choose cremation for their remains as of 2022. This free guide can answer any questions you have about this process to better understand your options, what the cremation processes and policies are, how cremation can work with your religious beliefs, memorial services that can honor cremation, and more in the preplanning process for cremation.
- Free Will: Having a will in place can ensure that your wishes for personal belongings, family members, property, and finances are fulfilled to your specifications. Through our partnership with industry-leading online estate planner Trust & Will, Funeral Preplan can help you put together a will outlining what you’d like done for your funeral or memorial service, how you would like your remains to be managed, how the expenses of your funeral will be covered, how your physical possessions will be managed, and how any care of loved ones like children or pets needs to be handled following your passing. A written will alleviate the stress and conflict for your family by letting them know what to do following your death.
- Free Preplanning Session with a Preplanning Agent: Working with a funeral preplanning agent can help you through the preplanning process to fully understand what options are available to you, the cost of the funeral, and options to prepay for your funeral service through a Payable on Death (POD) account. This can save you and your family a significant amount of money, stress, and heartache with the caring guidance of a preplanning agent to walk you through every step.
In some areas, we have a fifth tool that can assist with your funeral preplanning:
- Funeral Cost Estimation: The average cost of a funeral in the United States is $7850, but may cost more depending on the area you live in and the type of services you would like. There are many costs included in a funeral, like a casket, embalming, burial, cremation, funeral or memorial service, and more. Additional costs could be more personalized like the facility where you would like your service held, flowers, food, printed materials like a program, and transportation of your remains. This cost estimation tool can help you understand the costs associated with your funeral so you can preplan how this cost will be covered and what services you want included in your funeral.
Funeral Preplan can help you navigate a difficult subject to make the process easy to understand so you and your loved ones can have peace of mind prior to your death and ensure your end-of-life wishes are fulfilled as you want. Beyond the information and guides available through our service, we can help connect you to local funeral homes to help you through this process with someone you can trust right in your area.
What Does it Mean to
Preplan My Funeral?
Preplanning means planning the details of your final arrangements in advance. Doing so allows you to discuss and finalize your wishes with loved ones and to create a financial plan, allowing them to focus on connecting and healing rather than planning and paying at the time of your passing.
Why Should I Preplan My Funeral?
Planning your own funeral may feel uneasy, but it brings peace of mind and honors your wishes. It can also save money and ensure your family can follow your wishes, burden-free.
Funeral PrePlan for Funeral Homes
In the funeral preplanning process, families need funeral homes they can trust to ensure they will be well cared for and their wishes fulfilled following their death. Funeral Preplan can help your funeral home connect with more families in search of a funeral home they can rely on.
By connecting with individuals and families through Funeral Preplan, your funeral home can grow its preneed services, potentially increasing local awareness and market share. Funeral Preplan represents your funeral home to provide information on funeral preplanning, cremation, wills, and funeral costs to individuals and families.