Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Wednesday, January 5, 2011

What You Need To Know When Getting Funeral Home Services

By Dan Francis


When you need a service, even funeral home services, you will certainly do a search through the yellow pages or through the web. And when you do, you will surely find hundreds of listings of all the funeral directors in your area. So how can you choose the best among the rest? Read on.

When you have a loved one or a friend who had passed away, and you are given the great responsibility of taking care of the funeral arrangements and everything else that are needed for the service, you definitely would like to give them the best service that you can get. That is why you should not hire the first funeral home that you encounter and you should do some more asking around to come up with the right one.

Where is their office located?

If you want to have the funeral services to arrive promptly and even earlier than the set time, then the location of the funeral home would be an important factor. The closer they are to the chapel or the home, the quicker and more efficient they can provide the services. And since they are just located within the area, they would probably know who to contact for the other services that they might have to source out.

Rates of the services.

While price is important, because you will certainly be working within a designated budget, it should not be the be all of your search. Keep in mind that in just about any kind of service, you will have to pay a bit more if you want the best funeral and cremation services for your loved one.

How about their employees?

Are their employees very friendly to you? Are they always asking you how they could be of any more help to you? You can tell how good a funeral home is with their services by the way their employees act toward you. It is certainly much better to deal with people who are amiable and genuinely dedicated to serving you.

Reputation

Every business has a reputation to keep and it is quite easy to find out the reputation of a funeral director. Just do a search on the web and you will surely find some reviews, both good and bad, about their services. This is especially true if the company has been around for quite some time.

Ask for a quote.

Ask for the full quote for all the services that they will perform for the deceased. From the flowers to the hearse, to the burial or cremation services, the quote should properly detail everything including the price so that you can have a good idea how much it will all cost you. A funeral service is almost always an expensive one that is why it is a good idea if you will have enough preparation to prepare the payment for their services.

These are just some of the things that you should first look into before you decide on the funeral director that would provide the funeral services for your loved one. It is after all the very least that you can do at the moment.

There are many Melbourne funeral services that can give you the right funeral arrangement packages that will fit your budget and your needs as well.




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