What All Services Should A Cremation Plan Include For It To Be Considered Ideal?
There’re various companies out there in the market offering funeral plans now-a-days however not many are aware what a cremation plan includes or offers them for their money. Let’s take a quick look at what we consider a perfect cremation plan.
So first of, a cremation plan straight away saves you the time and money you’d spend on buying a plot. In today’s day and age where a lot of people are opting for a cremation rather than a burial, as long as your religion allows it, it makes sense to do some market research in advance to find out how much it could cost you if/ when you decide to go for it. Here’s a lowdown on what it should include ideally:
- Funeral services
- Coffin
- Bearers
- Hearse
- 24 hour collection of the deceased
- Care and preparation of the deceased
- Family support and guidance provided by the funeral director
- Visits of chapel of rest permitted at any time
- Funeral procession from home to crematorium
So in an ideal world all of these should be included in your funeral plan. In fact if you can pay slightly more, get one of those which would include the 3rd party/ disbursements fees as well. Normally it costs about £2500 - £3000 for the aforementioned services excluding the 3rd party fees and depending upon which company you choose. The plan that includes the disbursements as well could cost you about £1000 - £1500 more.
So really it comes down to your budget as to which plan you go with. Nonetheless bear in mind that this would be your last ever gift that you could leave behind for your loved ones apart from whatever other assets you have obviously, so skimping on the quality of the plan you buy is definitely not advisable. The last thing you’d ever want to do is have your folks running from pillar to post trying to make up for any shortfalls at the last moment when really all they’d want is to be left alone to be able to console and comfort each other.
