When someone passes away and arrangements are to be made things can get crazy.  Some families don't know where to start.  Pre-planned funerals can help relieve that stress on loved ones.  When the time comes the family can rest assured their wishes have been made and can be carried out. A pre planned funeral can be funded or unfunded.  If you want to pay now, set up payments, or set up an insurance assignment, you can.  If you just want to make arrangements and pay at the time of need you may do that too. 

Cremation can be as cheap as you make them.  Direct cremation with Indiana Funeral Care is $890.00.  Additional cost that a family might have would be death certificates and/or an orbituary.  Cheap funerals can be just that; however, you can use the money that you might spend at other firms towards keepsakes.  We have urns starting as low as $65 with engraving and jerewlry as low as $130.    

 It is hard to find any Indiana funeral homes that will work with medicaid.  The thing everyone needs to know is that with the right type of medicaid benefits are available.  Indiana Funeral Care accepts medicaid and will work with the families.  I will need a social security number or the medicaid number to call and check on the eligibility.  I can usually find something out that day if not the next.  If the family is eligible then we will deduct that cost from the contract and only bill for the remaining balance.   It's help towards an already low cost service. 

 When applying for veteran funeral expenses, the discharge papers or DD214 are required.  If unable to find it then we will help them request it.  All it takes is a signature from the next of kin on a request form with some information about that veteran.   We will then fax it to the veteran's administration.  They in turn will fax a copy to us.  At that point we can apply for the veteran's benefits. 

A family called today needing help.  They were using another funeral
home for the cremation of their dad and needed to know how to get in contact
of the crematory that was providing the services.  I was shocked and
told her that the funeral home that they are using should provide that
 service for her.  I ensured her that it is part of our services at no extra fee.
I went over our cheap cremation cost and provided her other options to
think about.  At the end of the conversation she was happy with the
information I gave her.  She said that I told her more information than the other funeral home had.   

Over the past several years making funeral arrangements has become easier.  Our funeral home staff will meet families at the loved one's home or even at a coffee shop just to make it easier for the family. 
Just the other day we met a family member at a resturant so they wouldn't have to be in the funeral home setting.  The family wanted to have a direct cremation with a private memorial service.   They were pleased to find a low cost service with such great value. 

I had a family the other day that came in and requested services for their dad.  Dad's wishes were to be cremated and not to spend a lot of money on services.  The daughters wanted to carry out his wishes but they also needed to have some closure of their own and a direct cremation just wasn't what they wanted.  After talking to them we explained that they could have a traditional funeral, meaning a visitation and service followed by a cremation.  The daughters were very excited.  They were going to be able to carry out their fathers wishes and still have the closure that they needed all for a low cost. 
To add value to the services we had military honors arranged to be conducted at our funeral home since cremation was to follow.  With their dad having been an honorably discharged veteran we wanted to make sure he was honored for what he did for us and our country.  After the honor guard came forward and saluted their dad, two gentlemen who were there for the funeral service saluted also.  
It gave them a wonderful feeling for honoring their dad and his wishes, but still having a meaningful service for them.