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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 nancial security for yourself, but for your loved ones as well. This goal of this guide is to help families understand the benets of taking the time to pre-plan.Your Caring Decisions Guide to PlanningYour Caring Decisions Guide to Planning* National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) Member General Price List Study, 2023 – assuming 6% annual ination.The Rising Cost of DeathThe 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 ve 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.

Of Adults Over The Age Of FortySaid that it’s important to them that a memorial service pay tribute to the loved one that they have lost.82%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 reect 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 PlaceOur 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

PlanningThe organizing and documenting of your nal wishes, along with other vital information, becomes an invaluable resource for your loved ones. While a will provides instruction regarding your nancial affairs, there are often so many other details that are forgotten. Our Caring Decisions Planner is a simple and effective tool for recording all of your end-of-life preferences in one place. Completing this planner provides easy-to-follow instructions for those who will carry out your arrangements.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 nal wishesProtecting Often families faced with the cost of a loved one’s funeral and cemetery preferences have to deal with serious nancial stresses. Pre-funding your nal arrangements protects your family from that pressure, and can be done in simple, monthly installments that are reasonable and manageable. When you are ready to start your planning conversation or to request a Free Caring Decisions Planner please call us at (361) 960.9257 or visit us at www.seasidefuneral.comPreparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. inking about death claries your life.- Candy Chang