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Keeping Families Involved At The Funeral Home

July 13, 2020 • Teri Vila-Caballero

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If a loved one in your family passes on, you know you have to have the help of local funeral homes in Key Biscayne, FL to get their final services in order. You might feel like once you call the professionals, you take a step back and let them deal with everything. However, this is a very personal process and you should be involved as much as you’d like. In fact, funeral homes want you to be involved. Here are a few ways you will feel a part of the process every step of the way.

In The First Meeting

You will likely call the funeral home first and ask some questions. Once you decide to go with those professionals, they can come and pick up your loved one and transport them to their facilities. There, they will care for them until you give them instructions on what you’d like to have done next. When you meet with the funeral director for the first time, you will recognize that they are there for you. They are not there to make decisions on your behalf, but they are there to support you in what you decide.

Options For Involvement In The Process

With any type of final service, there are going to be options as to how involved you want to be. You can be as involved as you want. Professionals are there to take some of the burdens from your shoulders, but they don’t have to relieve you of those things if you’d rather do them yourself. With cremation, for example, the process can be done whenever the paperwork is ready. But you can also view the cremation in person, if you so desire. With a funeral, you can have a visitation in which you choose what your loved one wears, the hours it is open to the public or open for a private viewing and so on.

Planning The Services

The funeral home you choose has been a part of a variety of final services in the past. They will implement whatever plans you want to put into place. But they want you to set up the plans so that your loved one’s wishes are met. If you don’t know what their final wishes would be, you might have to guess. But you are a lot more likely to guess correctly than someone who doesn’t know them. Plus, you know your family members and what they might want for that person.

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These are just a few of the ways in which funeral homes in Key Biscayne, FL keep you involved. You can help with any of the processes you want, or you can just make the decisions and let the professionals at Ferdinand Funeral Homes & Crematory implement the services for you from there. We’re here to help you in any way possible. One thing you can guarantee is that you will get nothing but the utmost support and compassion from every member of our staff during this hard time.

Teri Vila-Caballero

Teri Vila-Caballero

Teri Vila-Caballero is the Pre Need Director at Ferdinand Funeral Homes & Crematory. She joined the team in 2012 to fulfill her calling to serve our community.

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