After my father passed away suddenly, my mother, siblings and I all struggled with planning his funeral. We were already in a state of shock and sorrow, and then we were overwhelmed with the options and decisions we had to make in regards to the funeral. Luckily for us, we worked with an amazing funeral home and funeral director who helped guide us through the process. I know how hard it is to plan a funeral and how many decisions need to be made. This website was created in order to give families preparing to lay a loved one to rest a guide of sorts that will help them determine what decisions will need to be made and information about those decisions. I extend my sympathies to you if you are in this position and hope my website helps to make things a little bit easier for you.
One of the most difficult things that you can do is try to arrange a funeral, burial, and complete all of the necessary paperwork and details while you are attempting to grieve for a lost loved one. However, a funeral home can step and help take a lot of the burden off of your shoulders so that you can simply focus on grieving and comforting your family. Listed below are two ways in which a funeral home can assist you.
Details
Dealing with all of the paperwork and multitude of small details can often be too much for a person to handle while grieving, so it is a great idea to simply leave as much of that work in the hands of a funeral home as possible. One detail that the funeral home can handle is submitting any information to the local newspapers providing everything that they need to create an obituary. In addition, you can use a funeral home to take care of sending out all of the notices to friends and family letting them know the time, date, and location of the funeral and burial.
In addition to handling those little details, a funeral home can also take care of all of the permits and legal requirements. For example, permits are going to need to be acquired in order to actually proceed with the burial as well as securing a route for any funeral processions that you would like to occur.
Funerary Practices
Another major way in which a funeral home can help you is by ensuring that all of the appropriate and necessary funerary, burial, or cremation practices are followed when making arrangements for your loved one. This is most useful if you did not share the same beliefs and traditions of the deceased. In that situation, you could end up mistakenly disrespecting or getting details wrong accidentally simply because you are not familiar with the deceased's beliefs.
However, you can simply inform the funeral home about what kind of belief system or traditions the deceased person followed and they will make sure to honor it as much as possible. This will include preparing the body in the most appropriate way while also ensuring the appropriate religious official (if any) presides over the funeral and burial.
Contact a local funeral home today in order to discuss the many services and assistance that they can offer you during this difficult time. In many cases, funeral homes can help you deal with the details and paperwork while also making certain that the service honors the deceased's beliefs and traditions regarding burial, cremation, and the funeral itself.
Share4 February 2016
