Planning Ahead

Planning for a Funeral While Planning for Retirement

Pre-planning final arrangements is sometimes handled as the final frontier of retirement planning. It is one of the greatest gifts you can give your family and loved ones.

Retirement planning takes into account hopes and dreams as well as the unknown. It explores what kind of retirement a person or couple wants to enjoy as well as some planning for unexpected circumstances such as a stock market drop, sickness or injury. Once those have been planned for, some people choose to make the caring decision to plan for their ultimate demise. This plan will assuredly ease what is a stressful situation for families and loved ones.

Planning Ahead is an Ongoing Conversation

Pre-planning your end-of-life arrangements is often an ongoing conversation. It doesn’t typically happen all at once because you probably haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about your final wishes before now.

Perhaps you need to start with determining whether you want a burial or a cremation. Then, you can work through what you want your funeral or memorial service to look like. And then, what kind of tributes you want to celebrate your life: whether those are speakers at the services, or mementos on display.