Forms You May Need to Fill Out While Planning a Cremation Service

Planning a cremation service in Bronx, NY is pretty much always going to be easier than planning burial services. You aren’t going to have to make as many decisions when you plan a cremation for a loved one. You will, however, still need to be prepared to fill out a bunch of forms as you work your way through the cremation planning process. You should be ready to go from the moment you first sit down with a funeral home to make funeral arrangements for your loved one. Take a look at some of the forms you might have to fill out as you plan a cremation.

Funeral arrangement form

The first form that a Bronx, NY funeral home is typically going to give you to fill out when you’re planning a cremation is a funeral arrangement form. This form will ask you to list a lot of fairly basic information about your loved one (name, age, etc.). It will also ask you to provide a funeral home with some info on what kind of funeral that you would like to hold in addition to a cremation. A funeral home will often use this form to secure a death certificate for your loved one and to get the funeral planning process underway.

Cremation authorization form

Before a funeral home can even think about cremating a person, they need to obtain permission from their family to do it. Most of the time, a funeral home is going to ask a person’s next of kin to positively ID their body before filling out a cremation authorization form. This form will provide a funeral home with the permission that they’ll need to move forward with a person’s cremation. Your loved one’s cremation won’t begin until this form has been signed by the right person and delivered back to a funeral home.

Obituary form

If you and your family would like to write an obituary for a loved one yourselves, you’re welcome to do it. You’ll just need to start writing it ASAP so that a funeral home can work on getting it published online and in local newspapers. Or if you don’t want to write it, you’ll need to fill out an obituary form that will provide a funeral home with the info that they’ll need to put together an obituary for your loved one. This form will also need to be returned quickly so that a funeral home can get things moving in the right direction as far as an obituary is concerned right away.

Credit card authorization form

If you’re going to pay for a loved one’s cremation with cash, you obviously won’t need to worry about filling out this particular form. But if you’re going to use a credit card to pay for it, then you’ll need to get a credit card authorization form filled out for a funeral home. This form is going to give a funeral home permission to charge your credit card for the costs associated with your loved one’s cremation. It’s yet another important form that should be on file sooner rather than later.

Would you like to start filling out the necessary forms so that you can begin planning Bronx, NY cremation services for a loved one? Riverdale-on-Hudson Funeral Home, Inc. can help make this part of the process easier on you than it would be otherwise. Give us a call to find out about the forms that we’ll need you to fill out.