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Join one of our upcoming seminars to learn how pre-planning can ease financial and emotional stress for your family. Each session offers clear guidance, honest answers, and real-life examples.
Date: Nov 17, 2025 | 1:00 PM (CST)
Understanding Funeral Pre-Planning
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Zoom
Funeral preplanning is two steps.
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Deciding what your wishes are for end of life care
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Creating a Purple Shield Policy with funds to pay for your wishes.
A “cremation container” or “cremation casket” is required in Canada. This is not optional everyone MUST have one.
Cremation caskets range from simple wood boxes to full traditional caskets.
Crematoriums are expensive to operate so your funeral home/local crematorium will require you to purchase the cremation casket through the funeral home. They do this so they can be confident of the quality and safety of the materials being used.
Cremation caskets range from simple wood boxes to full traditional caskets.
Crematoriums are expensive to operate so your funeral home/local crematorium will require you to purchase the cremation casket through the funeral home. They do this so they can be confident of the quality and safety of the materials being used.
There are two options currently available in most of Canada. Traditional earth burial or cremation
Urns must be large enough. Plan on 200 cubic inches or 14 cups of space. A good visual would be about the size of a 4L of soda.
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