The best time to begin making your prearrangements is now, while you're thinking about it. .While some people in their 40's and 50's may think it's too early to preplan, people who do say that prearranging their funerals is smart financial planning and gives them added peace of mind knowing they aren't leaving this burden to family members. By taking time now to collect cost information and calmly making choices related to your own funeral arrangements, you'll be protecting your family against the stress of having to make these decisions at a time of extreme emotional stress. This way you can carefully choose specific items you want and need ... and pay for them now. Prepaid Investments through funeral homes allows families to fund their funerals in advance through different investment vehicles.
THE SIX COMMON REASONS FOR PREARRANGING FUNERALS:
Today, more individuals and families are making the decision to prearrange their funerals than ever before. Because of the factors such as inflation, fewer extended family members living close by, and other changes in our society, planning your own funeral can make a lot of sense. In a recent survey, these were the most common reasons people gave for prearranging their own funerals:
Lets your wishes be known.
Reduces stress for friends and family at an already emotional time.
Saves money
Guarantees your family will never have to pay more for your funeral - no matter what happens with inflation.
Shows you care.
Relieves your loved ones of the financial responsibility.
What is a Pre- Arrangement? It is simply recording your wishes down on
paper, collecting personal information, your choices, and selections and
keeping them on file in our facility until the time of death. Having your
requests and information recorded ahead of time relieves the burden from your
family.
What are the benefits
of pre-planning?
You are able to make rational
and logical decisions.
Saving your family the burden of having to make them under times of grief
and stress.
The assurance that your
wishes are known and will be carried out as specified and obtain piece of
mind.
You have the opportunity to discuss options with our funeral professional
and also with your family, church, friends, etc.
It will not be a financial
burden on your family.
You can select the services and merchandise according to your wishes,
spiritual beliefs as well as for your financial means by
pre-paying for the services.
What is involved in
making pre-arrangements?
Recording personal
information that is required for Vital Statistics.
This consists of full name, address, spouse's name, occupation, birth
date, birthplace, parent's names and their birthplaces and your next of
kin or executor.
Making service choices.
Funeral or memorial service, burial, cremation, entombment or transfer to
another city, music selections, personalized memorial service folder,
video presentation, participants (family and/or friends) to create a
meaningful service.
Making specific selections.
The selection of a casket or cremation container, an urn, a burial or urn
vault, and a monument or memorial marker.
Arranging a payment plan.
The services do not have to be prepaid, but the costs will be guaranteed
not to increase if payment is made at one time or by monthly payments.
It is
a good idea to,
Leave your requests flexible enough to allow survivors
to make appropriate arrangements for the fulfillment of their emotional needs
Why pre-arrange with
Squamish Funeral Chapel?
There is no cost involved to
pre-arrange.
At Squamish Funeral Chapel there is no membership fee or filing
charges to record your wishes for your services.
Squamish Funeral Chapel is
locally owned and operated, and has been serving the Squamish area for
over 35 years.
Our qualified staff, our central location, the facilities that are available
and the variety of services that are offered.
Feel at home or be at home.
The arrangements can be made in our well appointed facilities or in the
comfort of your own home.
The Inflation-Proof Plan exclusively offered by
Squamish Funeral Chapel. There are a variety of ways that you can pay for
your "Inflation Proof" arrangement. You can pay all at once in a
single payment, or you can pay over one, three, five, or even ten years.
Everyone can qualify, no medical exam is required, benefits grow over time,
and as long as the plan/certificate is used to fund a prepaid funeral
arrangement, there is no tax on the growth during the life of the
certificate.
If you are considering pre-payment of your funeral, we believe that this
plan is the best funeral pre-payment plan available. "The
Inflation-Proof Plan" guarantees funeral costs at today's prices and
eliminates inflation.
