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An Innovative Concept in Funeral Planning. Funerals To Die For is a private and secure club for people who want their final send-off to be a true and positive reflection of their life and overriding passions.
Why do we leave our own funerall arrangements to others? It's burdening a loved one who will already be greaving. That's crazy surely! Well now you can PLAN YOUR OWN FUNERAL online !
Although we are used to planning most of our life's major events - weddings, birthdays, retirement, anniversaries - few of us give any real consideration to the kind of funeral we would want. So as a consequence, your own funeral is likely to be a tearful, sombre ritual which is completely at odds with what you would have wanted!
Madness!
So join Funerals To Die For and you can take control of one of your life's key moments. You can plan how you want your life to be celebrated, making it a personal reflection of all the good things you enjoyed.
You and your loved ones deserve it... surely?
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Well the good, bad and the ugly amongst us have to go one day! Have you planned your own funeral yet? Well, many actually do but most of us might be lucky to think or talk about the 'big send off'... other's have openly stated a few traditions or quirlky funeral facts. Here are a few that might inspire you to get funeral planning (or probably put you off)!
Quirky but true! It is possible to celebrate and be joyous in death. Especially if you live in Sapanta, Northern Romania where the town can often be seen smiling, even laughing at there own deceased in the "Merry Cemetery". The tradition here is to celebrate the dead and adorn their graves and tombstones with colourful paintings and whitty poems. The place is now a national treasure and tourist point.... read more about the Merry Cemetery.
The average cost of a funeral in 2009 was £2733. The trend is clearly to see this price rise over the coming years. It is predicted (*) that by 2015 this cost will rise to an average of £4050! (source Mintel Research). So funeral costs are unlikely to fall so it is wise to make prior arrangements to ease the burden on youirself and the ones you leave behind.
After Dad died I found that planning his funeral was very time-consuming, stressful and I needed to be a good organiser (which I am not). If only Dad had been a little more pro-active in planning his own funeral before hand, discussed and recorded it with us the family, it would have helped our grieving time, the funeral arrangments easier and he would have got a better send off... we didn't even know if he wanted to be cremated or buried !!
It's a big expense and often unexpected. And you don't buy a funeral everyday thankfully! So when planning a funeral, few bereaved families are prepared or in the mood to make smart financial decisions about funeral costs. And certainly are in no mood to bargain or shop around.... "Just pay it, and get this awful event over with" would be a common mantra at this difficult time. As a result, many spend more than they have to. But pre-planning can save you lots of hassle and reduce the costs.
A funeral service is not always well planned, straight-forward or conventional. And you don't have to be rich and famous to arrange a quirky funeral... afterall why can't they have humour or be idiosyncratic. Maybe, after reading these funeral snippets you may want to try putting the fun back in your funeral !
It seems even planning your own funeral has not escaped the modern 'lifestyle choice'. With little effort, before we meet our maker, we can now plan a funeral for ourselves. Thanks to the Internet! Is it crazy, morbid, sensible or practical ... or all of them? Well we all deserve a good 'send off' and having a 'funeral plan' in place before the inevitable happens will spare our loved ones a lot of pressure and hassle post-death. Surely we owe them that?
Given a free choice, you would almost certainly hope that your funeral plans would be a celebration of your life, a tipped hat to a well-lived, well loved and frutiful life with your loved ones. So why do we entrust our parting moments to a greiving relative or friend? Who, will no doubt, do their blessed best to send you on your merry way. But will it be a befitting send-off? Maybe it's time you took control of you own funeral arrangements like any other special and personal occassion?
