Re: It's okay

From: 14tonks (mail.2.14tonks_at_recursor.net)
Date: 06/11/04 

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:31:26 -0400

Buying the plots is great, and writing everything down for your
survivor/executor is a wonderful idea, but buying a pre-paid funeral is
probably a very bad idea. Very often the pre-paid funeral is not to be had
when the time comes. The funeral home may have gone out of business by
then, or may simply insist ownership has changed and they have no knowledge
of any such obligation, etc., etc. Even if the home you choose turns out to
be stable, honest, and reputable, what happens if you have arranged a
prepaid funeral in your current city of residence but die forty years later
on the other side of the country, in a community in which you have been
living the last couple of decades? Arrange the details by all means, but
you'd be better to put the money to pay for it in a joint savings account
with the person who will need to do the paying and leave it there. 

-- 
Sheila
To reply to me, add the prefix real. to my address.
"LizzieB" <blahblah@blahblah.com> wrote in message
news:1zhyc.217$WX1.163@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
> After having gone through this experience with my mother when my father
died
> (he was 51), I think the best thing my husband and I can do for my family
is
> to buy the plots, get that pre-paid funeral thing, and *write it all down*
> for the remaining spouse and/or executor.  Of course, we're not even 40
yet,
> but things happen and if we've already taken care of all this stuff, it
sure
> takes a lot of burden off grieving loved ones whose *last* thought should
> be, "How am I going to pay for this?"
>
> LizzieB
>
>

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