PLAN AHEAD

1. You have control, your wishes will be followed, so your loved ones won’t have to guess what type of funeral you would want.
2. You can personalize your funeral and make the ceremony of the celebration of your life to reflect what you want to reflect.
3. Pre-planning and pre-paying eliminates emotional overspending from grief or guilt. Pre-planning can give you a peace of mind, that your family won’t have to make major decisions at their time of loss.
4. There are several options available in funding your funeral, which help eliminate your family having to be responsible for payment of your funeral expenses.
5. Pre-planning is one of the most thoughtful gifts you can leave your family to help them cope with their loss. It gives total peace of mind.

Pre-planning is something you can do now, it’s easy, it’s affordable. Of all the things you can do for your family, planning and funding your funeral may be the most considerate and caring gifts you can provide for them in their time of loss.

Why Should I Plan Ahead?

Not everyone likes to plan ahead, but preplanning your funeral arrangements not only gives you peace of mind about your final wishes being honored, but alleviates some of the stress and burden your loved ones are going through as they experience the grief associated with the loss.

The staff of Donald E. Lewis Funeral Home, Inc are happy to assist you with your funeral preneed by helping you make decisions about your funeral service in advance and guide you in helping eliminate some of the unnecessary stress brought on by a loved one’s death.

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Benefits of Preplanning

Lets Your Wishes Be Known

The death of a loved one often brings about unwarranted stress and turmoil among families. One family member wants one thing, while another family member wants something different. By planning ahead, you help prevent those disagreements by letting your family know what your wishes are and how you want your funeral service to be carried out and your business handled.

Peace of Mind

Our staff will carry out the arrangements you want, just as you directed. Once the plans have been arranged, you and your family can rest easy knowing at the time of death, those uncomfortable decisions have been made. In a time when a family should be able to grieve, preplanning allows for that to happen.

Flexible Funding Options

When you preplan your funeral arrangements, there are more options when it comes to funding the funeral. A preneed insurance policy, life insurance policy or other payment options can all be arranged before the time of death. At the time of death, services must be paid in full, so having options ahead of time can also reduce other stress related to losing someone.

Relieves The Burden From Family

Following the death of a loved one, there are more than 150 decisions that have to be made within the first day or two following the death. Those stressful decisions on top of the stress of grieving a loss can be eliminated by arranging your final wishes ahead of time. If those decisions are made, your loved ones aren’t left wondering what you would have wanted and how they should proceed with funeral plans. With those decisions out of the way, your loved one can begin the healing process sooner.

Common Questions about Preplanning