Local Funeral Home in Bergen County, NJ

At Bergen Funeral Service, our team at our funeral home in NJ understands how difficult a loss can be, and approaches funeral arrangements with compassion and dignity. Whether you're in immediate need, or pre-planning memorial services, our compassionate and professional funeral home staff will help you make informed funeral arrangements.

How to Plan A Local Funeral Service

Planning a local funeral service can be both an overwhelming and exhausting experience. Usually, no amount of preparation is enough for such occasion and you are always scared that you are going to mess things up. Hence, you usually need some help in arranging it all. 

 
So today, we will offer you a checklist that you can go through while planning a funeral in order to be sure that you have done everything right. Here you go! 

Choose a form of disposition

The first thing you should do, while planning a local funeral service is to decide on the form of disposition. This will help you in making future decisions. So here, the options available to you include- 

Burial- For a burial, you will be required to purchase a casket, a cemetery plot, burial vault, grave marker, headstone, monument, etc. 

Burial (green)- People who want to minimize their effect on the environment after death, opts for this form of disposition. 

Cremation- Here heat is used to turn the body into ashes. Afterward, you can either choose to scatter the ashes, keep them with you or you can bury them below the ground in an urn. 

Try creating a personalized experience

When you are planning a local funeral service, try picturing a meaningful experience. Think of something that you or your loved one will consider a meaningful way of saying goodbye. This can be something that captures the unique qualities of the deceased or something where the focus is upon the remains of the deceased. 

Do you want the body present

Another important decision that you have to make while planning a local funeral service is whether or not you want the body present. As already mentioned cremation and burial service are merely forms of final disposition and they do not preclude burial service with the body present. 

Flowers or donations

In the last few years, the families of the deceased have started asking for donations to charitable organizations instead of flowers. So, you have to make this choice too, what would your loved one have preferred, flowers or donations or both. Also, do not forget to mention your wishes clearly in the obituary. 

Find a professional service

You should look for a professional service who manages local funeral services or memorials. You can work with them and let them know of your wishes to host a perfect funeral service. 

So, these are some pointers that you can go through while planning a local funeral service or memorial.

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