Is advanced planning and prepaying the same thing?
No. Advanced planning means choosing all the preferences and options incorporated in a funeral, while providing the necessary vital statistic information that would be required at the time of death. Prepaying a funeral is securing and “freezing” those funeral costs against inflation by funding those expenses prior to death. This can be in the form of a one time lump sum payment, or time payments made over the course of years. It costs nothing to plan a funeral. There is never a requirement of purchasing a prepaid funeral contract in order to do advanced planning. Should someone choose to do the advanced planning and not pre-pay it, all of their detailed information is still stored in our files for safe keeping. That information proves invaluable to the family at the time of death by providing a guide to their choices and wishes.
