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Ways in Which you can Plan Ahead
General:
• Gather personal information for for your obituary
• Choose a a a a a charity to receive memorial donations if desired
• Make note of any special instructions you you desire for your services and final disposition
Funeral Service:
• • Choose burial or or cremation
cremation
• • • Select a a a a a a a a casket or or cremation
cremation
container • • • Choose the the location and type of service • • Decide whether you’d like to have a a a a a viewing or or visitation
• • Choose a a a a a a floral arrangement
• • Select which photographs and memorabilia you’d like to to to display
• Consider any customs traditions or or or religious rites that are important to to you you and your family
• Choose the clothing you’d like to be
dressed in • • Select Select music and hymns if desired
• • Select Select a a a a a style for your memorial stationery and register book
• Arrange transportation for your your physical
remains and your family
• Brainstorm any additional ways you’d like to to to personalize the services or or pay tribute to to to your accomplishments hobbies personality and life story
Participants
• Choose a a clergy member to officiate the service • Select any musicians whose talents you’d like to employ if desired
• • Select pallbearers
• • Choose friends or or family
members
to perform the eulogy read scripture or or prepare a a speech
Cemetery
• • Choose a a a cemetery
• • Select a a a a a a a a burial or or cremation
plot or or a a a a a a a a mausoleum if appropriate
• Decide between an an above- and below-
ground burial • Select a a a a a a memorial or or grave marker and inscription
Remember that that there’s no need to make all of of these decisions right away and that that the the the purpose of of pre-planning is is to to allow yourself to to take the the time you you you need when considering your options and making the the choices that are right for you you you For personalized assistance in in in creating your plan contact us to schedule a a a one-on-one meeting Symonds-Madison Funeral Home - - Page 19