Planning Your Own Funeral? Here Are Some Tips To Help

 It may sound very morbid, but planning your own funeral is the last gift you can give to your family! Why, because when you will die, it will be the darkest time for your family and planning a fitting funeral on top of that can be a real burden. So, help them out the last time, and plan your own funeral when you are in your sunset years so as to not give them more emotional stress.

 


·       To start with, first, decide which kind of funeral do you want. Do you want to be buried or are you looking for cremation Hialeah funeral? Or you can forgo these and donate your body to Science. Because the most important thing, your budget will depend on which option you choose. Burial funeral cost the most as the body has to be embalmed, and the casket is needed. Cremation cost much less as the body doesn’t need to be embalmed and there is no need to get a high-end casket. Lastly, when you donate your body, you only need to hold a memorial service which of course cost the least.

 

·       Coming to the first choice, the first thing you have to decide is your casket, depending on your budget. Next is the burial ground. Now there are many kinds of burial you can have starting from burial vault where the body is placed inside the casket which is lowered to a vault that is six feet underground. Then there is lawn crypt that is a pre-made tomb which completely encloses the casket and preserves it for a longer period of time that a burial vault. If your family has a mausoleum, then you will be buried there. Then there is natural burial where the body is not embalmed or placed in a casket or placed in a burial vault. Rather it is placed directly into the ground so that it can decay naturally. The emerging trend of green burial is more or less similar to natural burial, the only difference being that no pesticides are used in that cemetery and there are no bodies with embalming fluids or caskets in the whole place.

 

·       Cremation can also have multiple choices. For example, after your cremation in Hialeah, you can write how to dispose of your ashes. It may be scattered in a place of your choice; there are even companies that offer deep-sea spreading of ashes. Whatever you choose, make sure you know the local laws regarding this before you instruct your family to do that. Or you can keep your ashes in an urn which can be then either buried or kept with your family. If you have a family mausoleum, that urn can be kept there as well.

 

After this important point is taken care of, the other points to consider are:

 

·       Having a viewing or not. Also closed or open casket funeral.

·       Where to hold the memorial service.

·       Flowers, music, and other hymn choices.

·       What you will be wearing for your last journey.

·       Your pallbearers.

·       Who can attend your funeral and also whom you want as your pastor/priest as well as a memorial speaker.

·       Lastly, post-funeral reception.

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