The following is a pre-planning funeral checklist that will help you outline the details of your funeral or a loved one’s funeral in advance. This organized process will help provide the peace-of-mind that the funeral wishes were exactly as intended.
General Information
- Choose a funeral home
- Personal information for the obituary
- Select a charity for donations
- Decide if jewelry is to be worn or given to a family member (i.e., wedding ring)
- Choose a church
- Choose a cemetery
- Choose a reception venue
Funeral Home Services
- Choose clothing
- Choose burial or cremation
- Select a casket or urn
- Choose a burial vault
- Choose the type of service
- Choose family viewing or visitation
- Select floral arrangements
- Select and arrange photos to be displayed
- Decide on religious items to display
- Select readings or literature
- Select music type
- Choose memorial cards
- Choose any unique transportation (i.e., limousine)
Participants
- Choose clery
- Choose organist or musician
- Select pallbearers
- Select family member or friend to provide the eulogy
- Select family member or friend to read scripture or literature
Cemetery
- Select a burial or columbarium and/or mausoleum
- If cremated, what shall be done with the cremains (urn, jewelry, scattering ashes and where, and who should receive and/or scatter the ashes)
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