How Does Pre-Planning Works?

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How Pre-Planning Works

Thinking ahead and pre-purchasing your burial arrangements allows you to choose the specific items you want and need.

Pre-Planning: in short, is the answer to lowering the cost of burial expenses and helps lessen the impact of bereavement on the living.

Easy as 1, 2, 3…

Pre-planning is a straightforward, three-step process:

1. Consider which burial option is right for you.

To learn more, go to our Burial Options link for helpful information on burial arrangement choices.

If you need help sorting out the information, don’t worry, a knowledgeable and caring representative is always available to help you determine the burial option that’s right for you.

2. “Get started” by purchasing your burial space—for example your cemetery plot, mausoleum, or columbarium “niche.”

Think you might be ready to buy your space? You’ve got options:

  • Online

Soon you will be able to save time and purchase your space online through our partner site, Aftercareplanning.com. This will be a site that you will be able to purchase cemetery products all online.

  • Mail

Alternatively, only at convenientprepurchase.com can you purchase your cemetery space by mail. Click here to request your FREE, no-obligation, cemetery space planning kit. We’ll rush to you a handy kit that includes everything you will need to purchase cemetery property through the U.S.P.S.

  • In-Person

Contact us to make a no-obligation appointment at the cemetery, our office, or in your home—you choose. Wherever is most convenient for you, you will receive a comprehensive consultation, tailored to your specific burial and memorialization needs.

3. Complete your plan.

Once you’ve purchased your memorial burial site, later you can get all the remaining necessary burial items either one at a time or all at once.

Burial Items Needed For Land

  • Vault
  • Opening-and-Closing
  • Memorial
  • Casket

Many of our land customers subsequently purchase their vault and the opening-and-closing (finalization of the space arrangements). Later, the memorial and the casket are purchased, resulting in a complete land (in-ground) burial plan.

Burial Items Needed For Musoleum Crypt

  • 1. Opening-and-Closing
  • 2. Casket

Burial Items Needed For Cremation; LAND

  • 1. Urn
  • 2. Vault
  • 3. Opening-and-Closing
  • 4. Memorial
  • 5. Casket (unless cremation occurs directly after death)

Burial Items Needed For Cremation; NICHE

  • 1. Urn
  • 2. Niche Opening-and-Closing