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5 Steps To Make Sure Your Funeral Plans Are Followed

July 25, 2023August 1, 2018 by Daniel Szczesniak

Do these five things to make sure your final wishes get carried out

How do you ensure that your funeral plans are followed? This can include big decisions like whether to be buried or cremated, which funeral home to use, an eco-friendly natural burial or a big bold marble sarcophagus, services led by a pastor or a close family member.

Your wishes for your funeral can include smaller touches as well. Perhaps it is important to you that those who attend the service receive a “funeral favor” such as an engraved coin, a packet of forget-me-not seeds, or a bag of your favorite tea. Maybe you have a favorite hymn you would like sung, or a favorite poem you would like read.

These choices are important to you, and you can rest easier knowing that they are going to be respected. Here are five ways to make sure that your funeral arrangements are honored and carried out.

29 Gorgeously Green Cremation Urns for Humans & Pets

July 25, 2023July 25, 2018 by Daniel Szczesniak

Green is a beautiful color for a cremation urn. Symbolic of thriving life, renewal, energy, and nature, green-colored memorials are ideal to honor a wide variety of personalities and interests.

What Grieving People Wish You Knew (Book Review)

July 25, 2023July 11, 2018 by Daniel Szczesniak

So, do you want to know how to help a grieving friend or family member? While you may never know exactly the right thing to do, this book is the next best thing.

Here’s our book review of What Grieving People Wish You Knew by Nancy Guthrie.

Essential Oils for Grief: How Aromatherapy Can Help You Grieve

July 25, 2023June 22, 2018 by Daniel Szczesniak

How to use essential oils for grief aromatherapy

Are you wondering about the use of essential oils for grief? Here is some information on how aromatherapy can help you grieve.

What Happens to Your Passwords When You Die?

July 25, 2023April 16, 2018 by Daniel Szczesniak

Emergency access to your online accounts using a password manager

If you’re anything like me and most other humanoids living in this digital age, you probably have just under a billion website login username and password combinations. Somehow you keep it all together (thank the Lord for password recovery emails). But what happens to all those passwords when you die?

What papers do you need when someone dies?

October 11, 2023April 9, 2018 by Daniel Szczesniak

Documents to gather when someone you love has died

If you are the spouse or executor of the estate of a person who has passed away, there are many documents you will need to work through. What papers do you actually need?

Most will be financial statements, insurance and membership papers, and legal papers that already exist. These you will need to find. Others you will need to create.

Note that in the digital age, some of these affairs can be arranged completely online using digital documents and accounts. Even so, there will still be many copies and forms you will physically need to handle. Here is the list of papers you need when someone dies.

What to Do When a Loved One Dies: A Checklist

February 21, 2024April 3, 2018 by Daniel Szczesniak

What do you do when someone you love dies? Many of us have no idea what first steps we should take after the death of a loved one. Who do you call, what needs to be done, where do you begin?

These Hand Blown Glass Art Cremation Urns Will Blow Your Mind

July 25, 2023April 2, 2018 by Daniel Szczesniak

See what we did there? Hand blown glass art cremation urns that will blow your mind… right?! Right?!

OK, bad jokes aside, these glass cremation urns really are truly exceptional. Each piece is crafted individually by hand from start to finish in Oregon. With these cremation urns, the tradition of artistic glass blowing is brought to bear on funerals and memorials in a very special way.

The combination of human hands, human breath, and molten glass together with the skill of a glassblowing master results in the finest hand blown glass art cremation urns on the market today.

Ways to Create a Memorial Away from the Cemetery

July 25, 2023March 19, 2018 by Daniel Szczesniak

The cemetery isn’t the only place you can create a memorial for your loved one. Sure, a headstone is the classic memorial: weighty, substantial, carved with their name and dates.

But what if you want something more than that? Something different, something creative, something that people can see without having to visit a cemetery?

Here’s the complete list of everything you can do with your body after you die

July 25, 2023February 5, 2018 by Daniel Szczesniak

Complete List of What You Can Do With Your Body After Death

If you’re not already thinking about dying, you should totally consider it.

Well, maybe not the dying part, since that’s inevitable; more specifically, you should think about how you are going to arrange your affairs for when the inevitable comes.