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Planning Guide
Your Caring Decisions Guide to Planning Planning your end of life arrangements can be one of the most thoughtful and insightful things you will ever do Having the foresight to plan your funeral cemetery or memorial arrangements will not only provide peace of mind and financial security for yourself but for your loved ones as well This goal of this guide is to help families understand the benefits of taking the time to pre plan National Funeral Directors Association NFDA Member General Price List Study 2023 assuming 6 annual inflation The Rising Cost of Death The average cost of a funeral with traditional burial has increased to 7 848 and a funeral with cremation has increased to 6 970 representing a 6 6 and 11 3 percent increase over the past five years Locking in current pricing means that your family will never have to worry about rising costs or whether they will be able to honor your life and memory in an appropriate way
82 Of Adults Over The Age Of Forty Said that it s important to them that a memorial service pay tribute to the loved one that they have lost Create a Memorable Celebration of Life Those who love us will want and need to gather and celebrate us because it s impossible to love someone and not want to honor their life when they are gone Pre planning gives you the opportunity to reflect on the uniqueness of your life and provide both the guidance and the resources needed to celebrate it in an authentic and creative way Select Your Forever Resting Place Our story is the only thing we arrive with and it is the most precious thing we leave behind Selecting a place and a space where the journey of our life will be memorialized is about preserving our name and our story for the generations that follow knowing that honoring those that came before gives us a sense of who we are in the world
Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do Thinking about death clarifies your life Candy Chang Planning Protecting The organizing and documenting of your final wishes along with other vital information becomes an invaluable resource for your loved ones While a will provides instruction regarding your financial affairs there are often so many other details that are forgotten Often families faced with the cost of a loved one s funeral and cemetery preferences have to deal with serious financial stresses Pre funding your final arrangements protects your family from that pressure and can be done in simple monthly installments that are reasonable and manageable Our Caring Decisions Planner is a simple and effective tool for recording all of your endof life preferences in one place Completing this planner provides easy to follow instructions for those who will carry out your arrangements When you are ready to start your planning conversation or to request a Free Caring Decisions Planner please call us at 321 269 9222 or visit us at www oaklawnmemorialgardens com The Caring Decisions Planner allows you to record data such as Will information location executor attorney etc Financial information banks savings investments credit cards All information relating to your final wishes