Pre-Planning

At Burnside Funeral Home, we strongly support the option of planning for one's final wishes in advance.  Hundreds of thousands of people annually realize the need to begin to put their affairs in order before the inevitable occurs. By pre-planning for your funeral, several goals are reached:

-         You will have made your wishes known without dispute

-         You will have eased a sometimes unbearable burden from your surviving family

-         You will have selected a service that was truly reflective of your life

-         Personal information about yourself will have been placed on file to better help your surviving family with your personal affairs and

-         You will have alleviated a financial burden from your loved ones by pre-funding your funeral.

There is a difference in pre-planning and pre-funding a funeral:

A simple pre-planned funeral is when someone comes to our funeral home and makes their wishes known about the type of service they desire and provides background information on themselves without actually paying for those services in advance.  A pre-funded funeral arrangement is when a person pays for their services by cash or check either with a single payment or by a payment schedule.

The major difference between the two options is that by pre-funding your funeral arrangements, you will have guaranteed the cost of your services and merchandise selected, such as the professional tasks of the funeral home and staff, your casket, cremation urn and outer burial container.  Your funds are invested so that any earnings from those funds are put toward future rise in costs.

Many families already have insurance policies that have been designated for their funeral expenses.  The proceeds from these policies may be assigned to the funeral home as part of estate planning.  However, the price guarantees that are available with pre-funded funerals are not available with insurance assignments.  Our staff will gladly explain your options in greater detail.

Also, Burnside Funeral Home gladly accepts transfers of existing pre-arranged funerals from other funeral homes. This is a simple procedure, and in many cases, may be more beneficial in cost to the family.