Burial Pre-Planning
Five Important reasons to plan your burial now:
You’ll protect your family from unnecessary pain and expense.
You’ll say goodbye in a way that uniquely reflects your person style-not someone else’s.
You’ll lessen the financial burden. Our payment plans make it easy for you to comfortably pay for your burial over time, at today’s prices, so your family won’t have to find the money later.
You’ll minimize disputes between your well-meaning relatives.
You’ll show your love in a way your family will never forget
The Three Steps to Creating a Complete Funeral Plan
1. Collecting Statistical Information
It is important that your funeral home file includes your personal vital statistics. This information is used to fill out legal forms, required documents, and permits.
Ask your Cemetery Estate Planner for a planning guide that asks all of the pertinent questions. This will also help your loved ones compose your obituary.
2. Creating the Guide for Your Loved Ones to Follow
This Step is about mapping out exactly what you would like for your funeral services. This will include noting the type of service, the form of disposition, specific merchandise, and details. Meeting with a Cemetery Estate Planner is essential in creating the guide. They know all of your options and can help you design the type of service that is unique to you and your personal choices.
3. Pre-Funding Your Plan
Once you’ve created and designed the service that fulfills your needs and your family’s needs, it’s important to determine how those wishes will be funded. This program will allow you to keep the funeral costs within your budget and will relieve any financial burden for your family or loved ones. Meeting with a Cemetery Estate Planner will give you the opportunity to see what payment options are available.
Most of these pieces can be accomplished in one simple visit with a Cemetery Estate Planner… each step makes things much easier for your survivors.
Items available to finance at 0 % interest for 1 year when you pre plan at Riverside Cemetery
• Opening and closing of grave
• Military marker placement (for veterans)
• Date of death inscriptions
• Urn
• Urn vault
• Monument: ½ price required to place order, balance due when delivered
• Purchase of plot, crypt, or niche (must be paid in full before burial and before monument is ordered)
Benefits of Pre-planning:
• You receive a cost guarantee, prices will never increase *except extra charges for winter and weekend burials
• Secure the cost at today’s dollars
• Waive the 2nd right of burial fee – a $400 savings (this is when you share a burial plot with someone and they are placed at later date)
• Peace of mind and your final wishes taken care of