Elements of a Funeral
03-17-2019
Elements of a Funeral: This Funeral Planning Checklist from the Rochester Funeral Home covers all the elements you may need to consider when a death occurs (applies to both Canada and the US). Please click on the link for futher information.
- Advise the authorities
- Advise family,friends, colleagues, place of work
- Choose a funeral director familiar with your religious beliefs/or as applicable
- The funeral director will provide information on steps (official) that you may need to take and through all the steps of planning the ceremony/burial
- Should the body be embalmed
- Are you considering burial or cremation
- Will a plot be needed, an urn, a casket—there may be implications if you choose cremation
- Will there be a need for vault, mausoleum.
- What will you do with the ashes—Will they be scattered, buried, held?
- Costs and implications for services
- Will there be public viewing of the body/visitation—open or closed casket
- Will cremation occur before the visitation, at the service, or at a later time
- Consider clothes, jewelry, cosmetic work necessary for the deceased—or if the latter is required
- Visitation and wakes—do you wish to have this?
- Temple, Mosque, Funeral Home, Church
- Graveside ceremony
- Military
- Public figure/memorial/recognition from officials or groups to be incorporated
- Program
- Music
- Speakers, Tributes, Eulogy
- Obituary—write it, publish it
- Flowers
- Charitable Donataions
- Photos and videos for the visitation/the program/cards
- Will pall bearers be needed/chosen from friends and family or funeral home
- Music for visitation and service
- Order of program
- Transportation—to the cemetary/of friends and family
- Gravestones and markers/receptacles
- Accommodation of relatives/friends
- Legalities/business matters/insurance
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