What are some of
the benefits of prearrangement?
Taking care of funeral
arrangements in advance can be the kindest thing you do for your family. It
can spare your family anguish, save them money and ensure decisions are made
without stress or time pressure.
Funerals planned at time of
death often mean a significant, unexpected expense. Many details need to be
planned within a few short days, and sometimes families find this makes
their choices more difficult due to:
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Worries about emotional
overspending;
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Fears their choices
have been dictated by grief or made too quickly;
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Having to make
decisions alone; or
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Pressures of paying at
the time of need.
At Mills & Coffey Funeral
Home, we’ve seen first-hand how the process can be made easier by planning
your funeral in advance. Emotion and pressure are eliminated from decisions,
your spouse or family members can share in the planning, and you
decide how much will be spent on your funeral.
Why pay in advance?
By paying in advance, you
lock in today's funeral prices for the future.
When is the best time to
pre-plan your funeral?
The best time to pre-plan
your funeral is now, while you’re thinking about it. You may feel you are
too young to preplan, but those people who do it say that prearranging their
funeral was smart financial planning and gave them peace of mind.
By taking the time now to
collect cost information and calmly make choices related to your own funeral
arrangements, you’ll be protecting your family against much of the strain of
having to make those same decisions during a time of extreme emotional
stress. This way, you can take the time to carefully select specific items
you want and need… and pay for them now.
Why choose Mills & Coffey
Funeral Home to pre-plan your funeral services?
Mills
& Coffey Funeral Home has helped numerous families prearrange funeral
services that are tailored to their personal wishes and economic
circumstances. They've told us that prearranging their funeral was a simple
way to spare their family the anguish and potential conflict of arranging a
funeral.
Mills & Coffey Funeral Home
prearranged funerals, protect the consumer by guaranteeing in writing that
all interest needed to cover inflation remains in the trust account of the
purchaser until the time of need.
Why should you pre-plan?
There are so many good
reasons… practical ones, like saving money by paying in advance over
time…and emotional ones, such as making sure your choices concerning
memorial services, music and other matters are carried out, and giving your
family and loved ones the peace of mind they deserve.
Let’s discuss the practical
ones first. Funeral prices have more than doubled in the past ten years. If
you pre-plan and pre-pay with us, we guarantee that the funeral arrangements
you specify will be available without additional costs when the need arises.
Emotional reasons are even
more important. Preplanning saves your family the burden of having to make
difficult decisions at the worst possible time. You don’t want your family
to guess about what kind of funeral service, or casket, or monument you
prefer…and you don’t want to leave them with unanticipated expenses.
What other advantages are there to
preplanning?
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Guaranteed price
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Your personal
wishes are carried out, even to the selection of the casket
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It relieves your
family of a financial burden
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You have
peace of mind
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