The list below highlights the tasks your loved ones will have to take on the moment you pass;

• Notify family and friends
• Meet with a funeral director
• Decide on burial or cremation
• Decide how much to spend
• Select a casket and a vault
• Secure cemetery plots
• Select cemetery marker
• Pick out clothing and jewelry
• Decide what flowers to have displayed
• Contact a minister or priest
• Determine what music selections to play
• Write a obituary notice for the newspaper
• Provide family history
• Decide on prayer cards
• Select memorial recipients
• Choose pallbearers
• File the proper Social Security papers
• Contact insurance companies
• File Will and other necessary paperwork
• Go through all of your personal items

These tasks are heavy to take on during what might be the most difficult time in one’s life. By pre-planning you guarantee your wishes are carried out the way You want and most importantly, you allow your loved ones to grieve and not be burdened with having to decide without you.