Why to pre-plan a service

Howard Mammon | Important Documents

Executive Director, Toronto Hebrew Memorial Parks

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From time to time we will hear from family members who tell us that they just found out we buried their loved one at our cemetery, one of our cemeteries, and they find out that that person actually was meant to be buried at a different place, at a different cemetery, maybe a different city, but they didn’t know about it. So the person’s now resting with us. And so those discussions ought to have happened before, obviously. Or we have situations where a family buries in another location and then comes back and says, oh, we found out our dad actually has a burial right with you. So those conversations, again, should have happened before. My suggestion would be that you place any paperwork you receive from a chapel or from the cemetery with your other important papers. So if it’s with your will or your powers of attorney, you should keep them together. You should certainly tell people you trust and care about, about those documents, and they should know where they are, just like your bank accounts or your passwords or whatever they might be. Let people know. Some people might not want to have a family member involved, so they’ll involve an advisor, like an accountant, or a lawyer, or a rabbi, clergy, someone that you trust and know will be there for your best interests.

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