Pre-Planning Funeral Checklist

Pre-Planning Funeral Checklist

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

1. Choose a funeral home
2. Personal information for the obituary
3. Select a charity for donations
4. Decide if jewelry is to be worn or given to a family member (i.e., wedding ring)
5. Choose a church
6. Choose a cemetery
7. Choose a reception venue

Funeral Home Services

1. Choose clothing
2. Choose burial or cremation
3. Select a casket or urn
4. Choose a burial vault
5. Choose the type of service
6. Choose family viewing or visitation
7. Select floral arrangements
8. Select and arrange photos to be displayed
9. Decide on religious items to display
10. Select readings or literature
11. Select music type
12. Choose memorial cards
13. Choose any unique transportation (i.e., limousine)

Participants

1. Choose clergy
2. Choose organist or musician
3. Select pallbearers
4. Select family member or friend to provide the eulogy
5. Select family member or friend to read scripture or literature

Cemetery

1. Select a burial or columbarium and/or mausoleum
2. If cremated, what shall be done with the cremains (urn, jewelry, scattering ashes and where, and who should receive and/or scatter the ashes)