Preparing For Your Funeral

Death, something that many of us fear and never wish to embrace. We fear death because we don't know what it is, we don't know where the soul goes after the flesh is incapable of accommodating it, we only think about our earthly lives and what will be missing once we are gone. We think about our loved ones and their protection, some think about missing all the pleasures that life offered. But no matter what is it that we fear about death, one thing for sure, is that it is certain.
The living mourn while the soulless corpse lye still in casket, all dressed up with only one place to go, to the burial ground. After the burial comes the reality of the living, someone that they loved has passed off and will be no more. Expenses if any, will linger and must be dealt with, as well as if there are any benefits gained from this person death such as Insurance policies.
Let us take a look at how to prepare for your own death so that after your passing, loved ones are not let in financial bereavement.

Funeral Planning: Insurance Policy

This is a name that is familiar in all countries of the world. By taking out a life insurance policy, upon you natural or untimely death, beneficiaries will be able to enjoy the cash from the amount payable by the policy. That money can be used to offset many expensive funeral arrangement's. Without a life insurance policy or regular savings and investments, when you die your loved ones will be faced with an hefty task of financing your funeral and any other obligations that you had while you still were in living on earth. There are many companies who can sell you an insurance policy that suites your needs and of course your budget. Ensure that your insurance policy is up to date and your beneficiary names are on that policy.

Make your own casket

Funeral Planning: Make your own Casket

Have your own casket prepared so when you kick the bucket, no one will be shopping around looking for that one bedroom to put you in. You can hire a carpenter to custom build a nice casket for you. While living, you are able to choose the color(s) that you like, the design and the kind of material that it is made of. You cannot do any of those stuff when you are dead, don't you think that if your corpse will be lying down forever in a hot box it must be something that you would want to be in? If you don't want to custom build your casket you can always visit one of the many funeral homes/stores and purchase the one you think that says you. After you have purchased your casket, ask them to wrap it up and protect it from any scratches or environmental depletion. Bring home you casket and place in a safe area and ensure you let everyone know that your casket is ready and that is the one you will sleep in when you are gone.

Choose Your Funeral Package

You can even choose a funeral home that will take care of all funeral arrangements such as burial location, coffin and funeral program. You can also choose how you would like if any floral arrangements at your grave side when you die. You can specify how you must look when they have dresses and applied make up. Once your body is intact then this should be no problem. When you choose a funeral program, you can choose some of your favorite graveside songs to sing instead of someone cracking up a Snoop dogg and Miley Cyrus song over your coffin. You can even specify which day that you want to be buried on, get the best deal for your money.
Remember once you start planning for your funeral, you must always let family and close friends know of your wishes so that they will be carried out once you have passed on.

Investments and Savings

Do you know that money left by dead folks and not claimed by any family members actually go back into the governments pocket or any other beneficial private entity. Ensure that you have a trustworthy family member name placed on your accounts and have the bank know that only if your are terminally ill or in death that that person may be able to access your funds. Make sure that you are a worthy saver and try to invest in good bonds and stocks or diversify your portfolio even more to secure moderate to high returns in a safe way.

Reading the will

Funeral Planning: Write Your Will

This is probably one of the most important pieces of data you can leave behind. A will is a piece of paper with specific instructions given by you on how and whom should possess your assets and equities while you have passed on. By writing a will and have it witnessed by your lawyer. You ensure that when you die there is no squabble and fighting about your dead left possessions amongst your decent family members. Under the guidance of a trusted and truthful lawyer ("Truthful Lawyer", i can still see the knitted eyebrows) your will be read to all bereaving and non-bereaving relatives and they will know what you have left behind for whom and whom you think probably is a mules butt.
Willing Money to animals
One mistake rich folks make is to leave millions to their pets! Never ever do this, it's is quite stupid and irrelevant for one simple reason; a pet is not a human. Someone will still be in control over the millions that you have left your pet and if they really like your pet, will keep it and feed it, but if they don't it will end up in the shelter somewhere. Never leave money to animals.....psssst, a little secret.........they can't spend it!

Pick an headstone

There are many nicely designed headstones available today with sophisticated engravement made from exotic materials such as fancy granite. This option is great to choose while you are alive as you put on your own words on your headstone. eg. "here lies clivewilliams, died a poor HubPage author". You can distinctly put what you want everyone to read about and maybe help to remember you by.

Make peace with you enemy

One thing that you should always do before you kick the bucket is to make peace with your enemies (if you have any). It can not be good to die with hatred in your heart for someone. Lighten your heart of any burden forgive them and die peacefully and gracefully.
The fact of the matter is that even though we are some of the bravest people on earth, many of us are scared to death of death. They fear seeing death and fear talking about death, there is just something about death that attracts the grim reaper to you once you start dwindling in it a lot. But no matter how afraid we are or how silent we become when the topic of death arrives, for sure you must be prepared for your very own which i am certain is inevitable.