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		<title>Reduce Stress-Preplan Your Funeral or Cremation Today!</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[Pre Arranged Funerals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through the years advisers with our company have had the opportunity to help thousands of families make their cremation, funeral, and cemetery arrangements. You&#8217;d be surprised at the number of of families who have not completed any of their arrangements and had to makie gigantic financial and emotional decision in a matter of hours with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Through the years advisers with our company have had the opportunity to help thousands of families make their cremation, funeral, and cemetery arrangements.</p>
<p>You&#8217;d be surprised at the number of of families who have not completed any of their arrangements and had to makie gigantic financial and emotional decision in a matter of hours with little or no time to figure out any possible options.</p>
<p>Those who have planned, even just a very short time before being faced with a loss, have embraced the idea of pre planning as the best way to deal with the inevitable.</p>
<p>Thinking ahead can really help you make informed and thoughtful decisions about your funeral arrangements.</p>
<p>It affords you the opportunity to choose specific items you want and need and compare prices offered by different funeral providers in any given marketing area.</p>
<p>We pride ourselves in helping families make the right decisions based on their budgeting goals.</p>
<p>The death of a loved one is stressful.  Fortunately, funeral and or cremation pre planning is something is something you can do now to help your family.  </p>
<p>These decisions have nothing to do with you, but have everything to do with your family.  it&#8217;s not about you!</p>
<p>Pre planning can help your family make perfect choices, reduce their decision making, save money, prevent emotional overspending, and gives your family peach of mind by reducing the burden of making the decisions on the darkest day of their life.</p>
<p>Planning ahead helps us celebrate a life well lived.  </p>
<p>Pre planning is a gift of love to your family, so just go ahead and get it done.</p>
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		<title>Funerals Without Preachers!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[More people are planning their funerals without a traditional religious ceremony. And the inclusion of clergy also has become an option, according to a recent survey about growing secularism in society. As reported in the USA Today, more than one in four U.S. adults (27%) said that when they die, they don&#8217;t expect to have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More people are planning their funerals without a traditional religious ceremony. And the inclusion of clergy also has become an option, according to a recent survey about growing secularism in society. As reported in the USA Today, more than one in four U.S. adults (27%) said that when they die, they don&#8217;t expect to have a religious service, according to a national survey of 6,000 people conducted at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.<br />
      The survey revealed that a growing number of people want to celebrate a loved one&#8217;s life at a funeral or memorial service without clergy — sometimes even without God. And that&#8217;s giving rise to the new specialty of pastoral-style secular celebrants who deliver unique personalized eulogies without the rituals of institutional religion. Also the Official Catholic Directory shows a 23% drop in the rate of Catholic funerals for parish-identified Catholics from 1988 to 2008.<br />
      John Reed Sr., president of the National Funeral Directors Association, said 50% of Americans today say they don&#8217;t belong to a church and don&#8217;t see value in a religious funeral. But &#8220;they still want ceremony and celebration at the end of life.&#8221;</p>
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