Secure Your Wishes

Planning ahead for beloved family and friends is certainly not a new concept. Perhaps the kindest and most loving reason to pre-plan your final arrangements is to relieve your family of making difficult decisions in their time of grief. And, when you pre-plan you can take the time to make decisions you are comfortable with, about the setting, the options and expense.

Every life is precious to God and to family and friends whom God has blessed through you. Your permanent memorial acknowledges that you are at rest in the peace of the ever-living God to awaken on the great day of Christ’s return. Their reflection on your family history will also gratefully anticipate a great reunion.

Absolutely! Your family will have the confidence of knowing they have carried out your arrangements just as you had wanted. Pre-planning also helps avoid “emotional overspending,” a very avoidable financial hardship many families face when they are forced to make quick decisions in stressful situations.

Pre-planning protects your family from future price increases, conserving their financial resources. Zero interest financing is also available.

The only way to ensure your purchase is to pre-plan with a cemetery that places a portion of your grave, crypt or niche purchase in an endowment trust fund that pays for the perpetual maintenance of the cemetery and places the full purchase of your interment service in an escrow account to be accessed at the time of need. The principle of your interment service purchase plus interest is fully refundable.

Often the truly spiritual setting of a religiously affiliated cemetery provides comfort as the beliefs and traditions held by your family are visually confirmed.

Cremation is a common choice for its simplicity, dignity and affordability. Yet there are still many decisions to be made regarding your memorialization. Cremated remains may be placed in a traditional burial plot or above ground in a mausoleum niche. Many families select a glass niche to display personal mementos for a truly personalized tribute. Lacking remains for interment, cenotaph plaques memorialize loved ones whose remains are located elsewhere. Affordable and permanent, a cenotaph plaque gives friends and family a place to visit and a focal point for remembrance.

A memorial is a personal reflection of one’s life. Pre-planning gives you and your family the time to think about and discuss the memorialization that will be most meaningful.