Online Store for Burial Pre-Planning
With the Internet, it’s a new world for pre-planning your final wishes and making advance arrangements. Many sites offer pre-planning advice, guides, and more. Good pre-planning resources can also be found on our resource section at www.iMortuary.com. But, when it comes time to make your burial pre-arrangements, there is something new – burialplanning.com.
It used to be that consumers visited a number of cemeteries to learn about their options and make purchases based on their plans. Along the way, they dealt with a myriad of sales people and mingled alongside grieving families making arrangements for someone who had recently passed. The entire process of pre-planning is changing dramatically.
Planning Burial Arrangements Online
Now, some very credible organizations, like BurialPlanning.com, offer consumers across the United States a way to become educated on pre-arrangements and make specific choices in the privacy of their own homes. Because it spans 25 states, many consumers will find a cemetery in their area that is serviced by the BurialPlanning.com. Step-by-step, their website walks a consumer through burial choices and provides email and phone resources if and when they want to speak with someone.
Memorialization options range from the traditional burial to inurnment of cremated remains. Burial options offered at cemeteries serviced by BurialPlanning.com include:
· In-Ground Burial
· Aboveground Burial : Community Mausoleum
· Aboveground Burial: Private Mausoleum
· Combination In-Ground/Aboveground Burial: Lawn Crypt
· Cremation
Each of these options are thoughtfully described so that the consumer can contemplate the option that best suits their needs, values, and beliefs.
Once a consumer is certain of their wishes, they can complete a transaction online, by mail, or in-person on the BurialPlanning.com website. With the advent of services like BurialPlanning.com, consumers are in the driver’s seat when it comes to making their pre-planned burial arrangements.
For Loved Ones and Future Generations
Beyond offering the burial pre-planning services, BurialPlanning.com has developed options for creating online memorials, requesting cemetery records, and sending floral tributes for the cemeteries they service. Because pre-planning can also be the beginning of considerations for how a life story is archived, recorded and celebrated.
Why Pre-Plan at all?
Answers to this question generally fall into two categories – financial benefits and emotional benefits. Consumers benefit financially by lowering the cost of burial expenses by procuring cemetery space and other items at today’s prices. Also, making sound life and financial decisions requires time, discussion and a little research. The best time to make these decisions is before the need arises. The emotional benefits of pre-planning should not be underestimated either. When arrangement details and financial aspects are secured, loved ones are protected from exhaustive decision making and large expenditures during a difficult time.
Just as you would perform estate planning, financial planning and manage other life events, burial pre-planning is a sound pursuit. Broaching the discussion of your final wishes with caregivers, adult children and spouses can be difficult to navigate. Our March 10 article, “How to Discuss Pre-Arrangements and Estate Planning” offers more perspective on this topic.
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