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• Pre-Nuptial Agreements kind of casket to use, what cemetery to
• Post-Nuptial Agreements use and what to put on the gravestone.
• Loans and Leases
• Copies of Bills (Hydro, Cable, Phone Cemetery types
etc.) Monumental cemetery: A monumental
• Last Will cemetery is the traditional style of
• Tax Returns cemetery where headstones or other
monuments made of marble or granite
If no pre-planning has been done, rise vertically above the ground. There
necessary arrangements need to be made are countless different types of designs
for the funeral service. These include: for headstones, ranging from very simple
to large and complex.
• Scheduling the location, date and
time of the visitation and funeral Lawn cemetery: A lawn cemetery is
service where each grave is marked with a
• Selecting burial or cremation small commemorative plaque that is
• Choosing funeral products placed horizontally at the head of the
• Arranging a cemetery plot grave at ground-level. Families can
• Preparing an obituary notice still be involved in the design and the
• Scheduling transportation information contained on the plaque, in
arrangements most cases, however, the plaques are a
standard design.
A funeral director will guide you through
all these steps, using your wants, needs Mausoleum: A mausoleum is an external
and desires as a foundation to create a free-standing building constructed as
memorable funeral for your loved one. a monument enclosing the interment
From here the funeral services can be space or burial chamber of a deceased
personalized. Did your loved one have person or people. A mausoleum may
a favorite sports team? What was their be considered a type of tomb or the
favorite type of music? What activity was tomb may be considered to be within
your loved one known best for? Recalling the mausoleum. The most famous
fond memories assists with the grieving mausoleum is the Taj Mahal in India.
process and will help honor the life of
your loved one. Columbarium: Columbarium walls
are generally reserved for cremated
Burial Services remains. While cremated remains can
be kept at home by families or scattered
somewhere significant to the deceased, a
Traditionally, a burial service involves a columbarium provides friends and family
visitation, followed by a funeral service in a place to come to mourn and visit.
a church, or other place of worship. The Columbarium walls do not take up a lot
casket is typically present at both these of space and it is a cheaper alternative to
events, and it is your decision on whether a burial plot.
to have the casket open or not. You have
the option of having the remains interred Natural cemeteries: Natural cemeteries,
(earth burial), or it may be entombed in a also known as eco-cemeteries or green
crypt inside a mausoleum (above ground cemeteries are a new style of cemetery
burial). Family or religious traditions set aside for natural burials. Natural
are often a factor for choosing burial. burials are motivated by the desire to be
Decisions need to be made on whether environmentally aware, although natural
the body needs to be embalmed, what burials can be performed at any type
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