My wife and I share everything.  We’ve made all our important decisions together so we decided that we would plan our funerals in advance together as well.  We wanted to protect each other.  After completing the online application, we met with the funeral director at our home – it was the smartest thing we could have done.  Thank you funeralhelp.com

My mom passed away in 2008, however, since she passed away the day after I had my first son I was not really in the planning process due to I was in the hospital. I was able to help my father make the choice to pre-arrange his own funeral at the time he was making my mother’s arrangements. I felt that with a little knowledge of the pre-planning process I learned from your site FuneralHelp.com, I am more capable and confident in speaking with the funeral home that contacted me upon completing the online funeral application.  The professional funeral director was patient, kind person and he knew the feelings I was going through at the time of a loss. I also know the convenience that pre-planning can be for family members, because my father did so much running around when my mom passed away I do not think he was able to grieve until the funeral came. I know that I can be at ease knowing that I do not have to worry about planning my father’s funeral because that process is already complete.

In 1997 my husband of 31 years passed. We had a prepaid program for funeral arrangements.  It was a very traumatic time for me, being left alone with one child and no savings.

The company we dealt with was fantastic. One phone call is all that was needed and everything was taken of with no hassle, or added stress.

The funeral home we had chosen abided to all the arrangements that we had discussed two years earlier.

I had no added expenses.

This may appear  like a cold, point to point disertation.  But even after all this time, I still have problems discussing his death.

But in my heart, and soul, I am grateful that we had a prepaid program. 

I have even talked with my grown children about having such a program so that their spouses, children, or even me (if still around) can be spared much stress and decision making, and their wishes will be granted.

I have a boyfriend who does not have arrangements made at this time, and without being a nag, I am trying to get him to purchase one.

In the past 5 years I have buried my Mother, Father, and now a month ago, my father in-law. And to my surprise neither parent was fully prepared. They lacked the complete pre-arrangement needed for a stress free funeral. There was an instant burden put on the family on how to pay for all the burial needs not to mention hospital bills. I saw that my family members were thrown into chaos because they weren't prepared for the financial burden. I personally was a little shocked to find out that burial arrangements had not been secured for my parents. But it was like a slap in the face because I too need to prepare. I don't want my child or my wife to suffer financially when it is my time to rest. And I want us all to be buried together. Death is a matter no one understands and they really don't want to talk about it, until it happens to them, so sooner or later people are going to have to deal with it. But the question to us is do we want our death to be burden to our spouses or children?   I know we all think we know when our time might be, but the truth is, we don't! And that's a fact!!!