Planning Your Funeral with the Help of a Funeral Home
Planning your funeral can go a long way in guiding or helping your family through a tough time, especially when they might be juggling with emotional pain. A funeral home can help, whether you are interested in a traditional burial or a cremation.
Where Do You Start?
To help you get started, you need to look for a funeral home that offers the services you need. These services include how you want your body to be treated (cremated or buried) and whether you want a traditional funeral service, memorial service and body viewing. Of course, this depends on your cultural and religious values, but the cost of the funeral might weigh in on your choice.
A funeral home is the best way to go about a funeral because its professional services help your loved ones mourn you peacefully without the burden of making arrangements for your funeral.
Do You Want to Be Cremated?
If you want to be cremated, you might come across the following services:
- Funeral service with body viewing and cremation to be done afterwards.
- Funeral service without body viewing and cremation to be done afterwards.
- A memorial service to be conducted at a funeral home, followed by the burial/interment or the scattering of your ashes.
You need to know a few things when it comes to the above:
- A funeral service is conducted when the body is present, while a memorial service is conducted when the body is not present.
- If the body is present (funeral service), it needs to be embalmed and displayed in a coffin; this means additional expenses. You will also be required to pay for cremation services.
- If the body is not present (memorial service), it means that embalming is not necessary and your body can be cremated in a crematory and your ashes brought to the funeral home. This is less expensive than a funeral service; it is usually referred to as a bare, simple or direct cremation.
Do You Want to Be Buried?
Burial services are almost the same as those for cremation, but instead of having your body cremated, it is buried. This is expensive because embalming and a burial coffin are required. You can come across services like:
- A funeral service with body viewing and burial to be done afterwards.
- Funeral service without body viewing and burial to be done afterwards.
- A memorial service to be conducted at a funeral home, followed by a burial.
