The family handles burial. You could opt for donating body to science or cremation to avoid cost of burial. Burial is expensive everywhere. Depending on where you live the actual plot can cost a fortune and then add the cost of funeral home - and all the frills attached to that.
unless family members are against it for religious reasons, direct cremation is the least expensive. As someone else indicated Medicare allows for funeral pre-payment which highly recommend. You do not need a funeral home‘s help to have a simple memorial service on your own after she has been cremated.
My OB died with no instructions as to his choice of the final resting spot. He also died with no money and heavily in debt.
His kids came to town and were slammed with creditors and a ton of decisions to be made and no clue what to do.
Eventually, they got their mom, an attorney and OB's first (of 4! wives) to handle things. All creditors were given the 411 that OB had nothing at all of value and they crept back into their holes.
A simple cremation was done and his ashes given to 5 people. VA paid for this, as he was a DAV.
MONTHS after he died, some documents were found stating what he wanted for his 'disposal'--but it was far too late and what he wanted was to be buried at sea! We live in Utah, so that wasn't going to happen.
I felt for his kids. They were all late 20's and just baffled by all of this.
Was a wake up call for the rest of us--get your papers in order--NOW. I wouldn't want my kids to deal with what his kids had to deal with.
- Medicaid Funeral Assistance. - Veteran Death Benefits. - Prepaid Funeral Plans. - Donating the Body to Science. - Direct Cremation (the deceased goes right to cremation, no service or memorial) - GoFundMe campaign
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Before her assets run out, do a prepaid funeral trust. Medicaid allows this.
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His kids came to town and were slammed with creditors and a ton of decisions to be made and no clue what to do.
Eventually, they got their mom, an attorney and OB's first (of 4! wives) to handle things. All creditors were given the 411 that OB had nothing at all of value and they crept back into their holes.
A simple cremation was done and his ashes given to 5 people. VA paid for this, as he was a DAV.
MONTHS after he died, some documents were found stating what he wanted for his 'disposal'--but it was far too late and what he wanted was to be buried at sea! We live in Utah, so that wasn't going to happen.
I felt for his kids. They were all late 20's and just baffled by all of this.
Was a wake up call for the rest of us--get your papers in order--NOW. I wouldn't want my kids to deal with what his kids had to deal with.
- Veteran Death Benefits.
- Prepaid Funeral Plans.
- Donating the Body to Science.
- Direct Cremation (the deceased goes right to cremation, no service or memorial)
- GoFundMe campaign
Check your states Medicaid for the amount they allow. It varies.