You're never too young to pre-plan and pre-pay your funeral expenses.

WHY PLAN NOW?

Sharing the intimate details of your preferred funeral service 5, 10, 20
years or more ahead of its time can be quite a difficult concept to
consider.  If you write it down who will you entrust the paper to?  If you
tell your partner, sons or daughters, how will they remember and plan your
every wish in their time of sadness?  Only you can advise sensibly on such
individual requirements - burial or cremation? Hymns? Music? Cars?
Memorialisation? Or perhaps you have an environmental requirement such as
woodland burial for instance?

Bereaved relatives often have grief and anger to contend with.  Adding the
administrative burden of arranging the funeral to their confused and
emotional state may lead to mistakes being made and unnecessary costs
being incurred.  Cremation is requested when in fact you wanted to be
buried; or a service at church might be overlooked altogether. Small
details like instructions for wedding rings can often cause the relatives
great anguish and problems.  If only they had known is often a feeling
expressed.  Planning and paying for your funeral in advance saves your
family the anguish and grief of doing anything other than remembering you.


WHY PAY NOW?

The cost of funerals has historically increased above the normal levels of
inflation and this is a theme that is predicted to continue.  A funeral
costing just £850 ten years ago might cost nearer £2500 now.  It is
impossible to say what that cost might be in five or ten more years time.
What is certain is, with Golden Leaves Funeral Plan, bought now at today's
prices or paid for in convenient monthly instalments, the quality of the
service provided by the Funeral Director in respect of your planned wishes
will not cost your family one penny more - whenever it is ultimately
needed.

There are some costs outside of the Funeral Directors control, which they
pay on your behalf - these are known as disbursements and include fees
such as; Doctors, Ministers, Crematoria, Cemeteries, Churches, Grave
diggers, Newspapers, Florists and Stationers.  Any rise in the cost of
these disbursements may necessitate a further payment at the time of need,
but Golden Leaves will guarantee any increase in the costs of
disbursements to the RPI (Retail Price Index).


Please see below for details of the four plans offered and their
respective prices.  Please note that there is also a repatriation plan
available (exclusive to Golden Leaves), for those wishing to be
repatriated to or from another country.  Also plans can be tailored to
your individual requirements e.g. an eco type coffin and burial or horse
drawn carriage.  Please do not hesitate to call 01304 201322 or e-mail me
if you have any questions or would like to arrange a free no obligation
visit or a brochure and application form can be posted.  Alternatively you
can visit Golden Leaves own website at www.goldenleaves.co.uk.
For the latest details and costs please click here.

Thank you for reading and don't delay make your plans TODAY!

(Copyright 2006. All rights reserved Paul Sullivan)