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Losing a Loved One: Embracing Personalized Funerals
Losing a Loved One: Embracing Personalized Funerals
Losing a loved one is undoubtedly one of life’s most challenging experiences. In the midst of grief, planning a funeral can feel overwhelming. However, it’s essential to remember that a funeral isn’t just about saying goodbye; it’s an opportunity to celebrate and honor the life and legacy of your loved one. At Plan With Care Funeral Services, we believe in the power of personalization, creating meaningful tributes that reflect the unique essence of each individual. In this blog post, we explore the importance of personalizing funerals and offer guidance on how to create a service that truly honors your loved one’s memory.
Embracing Personalization
Every person is unique, and their funeral should reflect that uniqueness. Personalization allows you to celebrate your loved one’s life in a way that feels authentic and meaningful. Whether they had specific interests, hobbies, or beliefs, incorporating elements of their personality into the funeral can provide comfort and solace to grieving family and friends.
Reflecting on Memories
One of the most beautiful aspects of personalization is the opportunity to reflect on cherished memories. Consider incorporating photo displays, memory boards, or slideshow presentations showcasing special moments from your loved one’s life. Encourage guests to share stories and anecdotes, fostering a sense of connection and community as you celebrate their life together.
Honoring Passions and Interests
Did your loved one have a passion for music, art, sports, or gardening? Consider incorporating elements of their interests into the funeral service. Play their favorite songs, display their artwork, or decorate the space with flowers from their garden. These personalized touches not only honor their passions but also create a comforting and familiar environment for mourners.
Meaningful Rituals and Traditions
Rituals and traditions play a significant role in the grieving process, providing structure and comfort during a difficult time. Consider incorporating meaningful rituals that hold significance for your family and your loved one. Whether it’s a religious ceremony, a candle lighting ritual, or a symbolic gesture, these rituals can help honor your loved one’s memory while providing comfort and closure to those in attendance.
Creating Lasting Memorials
In addition to the funeral service itself, consider creating lasting memorials that honor your loved one’s legacy. Planting a tree in their memory, dedicating a bench or plaque in their honor, or establishing a scholarship fund in their name are all meaningful ways to pay tribute to their life and ensure that their memory lives on for years to come.
Conclusion
At Plan With Care Funeral Services, we understand that every individual is unique, and their funeral should be too. By embracing personalization and honoring your loved one’s legacy, you can create a funeral service that is as special and meaningful as they were. Our compassionate team is here to support you every step of the way, helping you plan a celebration of life that truly reflects the essence of your loved one.
Our Comprehensive Funeral Services
Our Comprehensive Funeral Services
When facing the loss of a loved one, having a compassionate and comprehensive funeral service provider can make a significant difference in navigating the difficult journey of saying goodbye. At Plan With Care Funeral services, we understand the importance of honoring your loved one’s memory with dignity and respect. That’s why we offer a range of services tailored to meet the diverse needs of our clients, ensuring that every aspect of the funeral process is handled with care and professionalism.
Direct Cremation
For those seeking a simple yet dignified farewell, our direct cremation service provides a streamlined process. It includes refrigeration to preserve the body, a suitable cremation container, transfer to the crematory, the cremation process itself, transfer of the cremated remains to our funeral house, the cremation fee, and the necessary transfer of the deceased.
Transfer To Mexico
We understand that families may wish to lay their loved ones to rest in their homeland. Our transfer to Mexico service encompasses every aspect of this process, from transferring the deceased, embalming, dressing, and casketing, to providing a metal casket suitable for international transportation. We also handle the necessary paperwork, including the death certificate and transport permits, ensuring a smooth transition. Additionally, we oversee the forwarding of the remains to Mexico, alleviating the logistical burden during this challenging time.
Traditional Cremation
For those desiring a more traditional ceremony with the option of cremation, our comprehensive package covers all essential aspects. This includes the transfer of the deceased to our care, the expertise of our funeral director and staff, embalming, dressing, and casketing services. Families have the option of utilizing a rental casket for the viewing, along with a memorial printed package to honor their loved one’s memory. Following the viewing, we provide a suitable cremation container, cremation urn, and handle all associated cremation fees.
At Plan With Care Funeral Services, we recognize that every individual and family is unique, and we are dedicated to providing personalized support and guidance throughout the funeral planning process. Whether it’s arranging a simple cremation, facilitating a transfer to Mexico, or orchestrating a traditional ceremony with cremation, our experienced team is here to assist you every step of the way. With our unwavering commitment to care and attention to detail, we strive to alleviate the burden on families during their time of need, allowing them to focus on honoring and celebrating the life of their loved one.
The Benefits Of Our Monthly Raffle
The Benefits Of Our Monthly Raffle
In times of loss, finding moments of joy can be challenging. However, at Plan with Care, we believe in providing comfort and solace through our unique approach to funeral services. As part of our commitment to supporting families during difficult times, we host monthly raffles that offer not only practical benefits but also a touch of happiness when it’s needed most.
Our monthly raffles serve as a beacon of light amidst the darkness of grief. While the grieving process is different for everyone, we understand the importance of fostering a sense of community and hope during these times. By organizing these raffles on a regular basis, we aim to bring families together, offering them a moment of respite from their sorrow.
The Benefits
One of the key benefits of our monthly raffles is the joy they bring to our clients. Winning a prize, no matter how small, can lift spirits and provide a much-needed distraction during a challenging period. Whether it’s a gift card to a local restaurant, a spa day, or tickets to a concert, these prizes offer moments of happiness that can be truly uplifting.
Moreover, our raffles provide an opportunity for families to bond and connect with one another. Gathering together to participate in the raffle draws allows them to share memories, stories, and even laughter, helping to ease the burden of grief, if only for a short while. These moments of connection can be invaluable in fostering healing and support within the community.
In addition to the emotional benefits, our monthly raffles also offer practical advantages for our clients. From financial assistance with funeral expenses to essential items such as grocery vouchers or household supplies, the prizes we offer can help alleviate some of the stress that often accompanies the loss of a loved one.
As we approach Mother’s Day, we are excited to announce our upcoming raffle for two tickets to see Pepe Aguilar, a special gift for all mothers in our community. We recognize the significance of honoring mothers, especially during this time of remembrance and celebration. These tickets serve as a token of appreciation for the love, care, and sacrifice that mothers provide.
At Plan with Care, our commitment extends beyond the traditional boundaries of funeral services. Through our monthly raffles, we strive to bring comfort, joy, and support to those in need, ensuring that even in moments of darkness, there is always a glimmer of hope.
Cremation garden
Burial of cremated remains in a cremation garden
It is not uncommon for some cemeteries to have a cremation garden also called an urn garden. These types of gardens allow you to buy a “space” you can bury the remains of your departed dear one.
This option is especially ideal if the deceased loved the outdoors. Owners of cremation gardens ensure they are well looked after, meaning the grounds feature beautiful landscapes and serene environment. Additionally, many urn gardens allow for fancy features. These features can be in the form of a decorative fountain, park bench, boulder etc. which you can use to memorialize the site you bury the urn containing the remains of your dear one.
Burying cremated ashes in a traditional plot
For families that would love to be buried together in the same location, interning the cremated ashes in a traditional burial plot ticks all the boxes. Interestingly, because of their small sizes, urns require little spaces as such, some cemeteries allow you to bury multiple urns in one gravesite. However, to help protect the urn from the surrounding soil, an urn vault which is similar to burial vaults is available. Furthermore, this option allows you to honor your loved one with a traditional headstone, an eye-catching bronze plaque, stunning stone statue or other grave-markers of your choice.
Give your loved one the perfect cremation funeral
Hosting a memorable cremation funeral, like with most essential events in life requires meticulous planning. To help you plan a personalized cremation funeral or memorial is, we’ve put together a free guide to ensure everything comes together smoothly.
Columbariums
Columbariums
The columbarium is designed to be a permanent place to hold urns containing cremated remains. It is a structure built above ground and can be found in many cemeteries. A typical columbarium has hundreds of niches. Niches here refer to spaces in the wall which are specifically designed as a permanent home for burial urn or any other type of vessel used in collecting cremated ashes.
Niches could have fronts made of glass. Glass fronts hold some advantages – it allows for customization and better viewing. Families that use niches with glass fronts can honor the dead with photos, mementos, and other memorable items.
Apart from niches with glass fronts, you can also find niches with bronze or granite fronts.
If you decide on the burial of the cremated ash in a columbarium, there are unique add-ons you can employ to honor your loved one. You can buy a plaque which can be customized with details such as the name, birthday, death date or other information, favorite quote or verse of your departed loved one can be engraved on it.
Because of its convenience and location above ground, interment of ashes in a columbarium is favored by many. Additionally, it allows families to come to pay their respect easily, thus becoming a public memorial for many.
Cremation Burial
Cremation Burial
Burying cremated remains: the best options available to you
Coming to terms as to what to do next following the death of a loved one can be overwhelming. After death families must make decisions regarding burial. Today, as it stands ,the line between cremation and burial in the sense of the traditional funeral, is becoming blurred.
Despite the upsides of cremation over burying your loved one in a casket, families worry about what to do with ashes gathered after cremation. Luckily, there are simple solutions to that which provide a beautiful ending and befitting rest for your loved one.
Apparent methods of dealing with the remains following cremation include storing it an urn or container at home or scattering the ashes at a special place. However, a cemetery burial offers more comfort and is favored by some religious customs like the Catholic Church, which require burial or entombment of the ash remains rather than scattering.
For many worried about how best to deal with the interment of the ashes, a cemetery internment is an excellent option. It guarantees a permanent resting place where family and friends could visit, awaken fond memories, and ponder life.
Add a marker or memorial – a monument, plaque, pedestal, or bench to the mix, and you’ll save a slice of family legacy for posterity. Fortunately, you can still make do with a great marker should you choose to scatter the ashes.
How to comfort those in grief
Want to comfort those who grieve but don’t know how? Most times, the right words fail us. We want to give comfort, but feel helpless.
Here are some practical things you can do to help comfort your dear one who is in grief:
Know and come to terms with your limits
The passing of a loved one is a traumatic experience; therefore, you must know that grieving is a natural process, and there is nothing you can do to spare his/her grief. It is a part of suffering a loss and is a way to adapt to the new situation.
Offer to help
You can mention specific areas you would love to be of help such as getting groceries or taking the kids to the school and so on. However, if you do not know how to be of assistance, you can ask. Make concrete suggestions about what you can do or do for him/her. Everybody mourns differently and what they need from their environment usually changes with the duration of the mourning so you must always ask periodically.
Be generous with your presence and also offer to listen to them
Your presence will go a long way to comfort someone in grief and it also shows them you care. Having people around is encouraging and makes the healing faster. Your mere presence is a way of telling them they are not in it alone and that you’re there for them.
Just listen patiently, even if they always say the same things.
If they don’t want to talk about their feelings, don’t force them
Some mourners avoid talking about anything that has anything to do with the deceased person, mostly out of fear of losing their composure. They just want to survive the day. If they go down this road planning joint activities is always a good option, maybe they will open up later.
Establish rituals
Establishing certain rituals such as visits and phone calls will go a long way. Call him/her at certain times. Rituals have something reliable – it shows you’ve not “forgotten” about them.
Encourage them to partake in activities
During the mourning phase it can be helpful for the mourner to be distracted from time to time.
Even if you get turned down try to encourage him/her again and again to participate in small activities. These activities can be a walk in the park, hiking, sports, fishing etc.
Recommend a mourning group
When he/she is with others who have suffered a loss, then he/she no longer feels as alone with his grief and can experience that other people have similar feelings and reactions as them.
You can offer to drive/accompany them to their meeting.
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