The Planning Process

Meeting the needs of each family

Shalom Memorial has long believed that there is not a single best way for each family to approach pre-planning.  We have created a pre-planning program that affords ultimate flexibility and control over the process.  Combined with the ability to budget for all aspects of pre-planning over time, Shalom Memorial’s pre-planning program can be designed around each family’s emotional and financial needs.

PLANNING MAY INCLUDE

The Selection of the most appropriate resting place is the fundamental decision in the planning process.

  • Traditional In-Ground Burial
  • Private Family Estates
  • Mausoleum Crypts and Niches

Shalom Memorial Park cemetery offers traditional burial plots in over 20 different sections of the cemetery.  Within Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery there are sections designated for those of the Jewish Faith and special areas for those Orthodox members of the community.  The Beth She’arim Mausoleum offers both indoor and outdoor entombment options.

For interfaith families, the other sections of Randhill Park Cemetery offer meaningful options on the same cemetery grounds.

At this time, all burial property can be budgeted for over time with no interest.  This helps to make pre-planning a financially prudent decision.

The dedicated, professional Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery grounds staff works to ensure that the burial service is dignified and meaningful.

The cemetery labor services is call the ‘Committal Service’.

The Cemetery Committal Service includes

  • The preparation of the area
  • opening of the plot/crypt
  • setting of the burial vault or mausoleum liner
  • tent
  • chairs
  • lectern
  • the attendants to service the burial
  • the closing of the plot/crypt
  • the restoration of the area including sodding

At this time, all pre-need cemetery committal services can be budgeted for over time with no interest.  This helps to make pre-planning a financially prudent decision.

An array of beautiful and meaningful styles and designs are available to help remember and honor those loved ones at rest with the cemetery grounds.  Bronze memorials can be selected to honor an individual or a couple together.

Bronze memorial may include

  • Names in both English and Hebrew
  • Dates of birth and passing
  • Special lines of endearment
  • Favorite sayings
  • Pictures
  • Artistic emblems
  • and Bronze vases

Our pre-need staff can help ensure that the most appropriate and meaningful memorial is selected to both honor and remember.

At this time, all pre-need bronze memorials can be budgeted for over time with no interest.  This helps to make pre-planning a financially prudent decision.

Funeral services are deeply personal and by outlining our choices, in advance of the need, we are able to ensure that all unnecessary burdens are removed from out loved ones both emotionally and financially.

The selections that are able to be made include

  • The type of service (graveside vs chapel vs synagogue)
  • The casket
  • The outer burial container
  • The selection of clergy
  • Religious rites and rituals
  • Whether to include an obituary
  • Selection of flowers
  • Number of death certificates

The pre-planning program at Shalom Memorial helps walk a family through these choices and decisions in order to craft the most appropriate and most meaningful set of arrangements.

One of the most important parts of the planning process is to share your wishes with your loved ones.

Information that should be shared includes:

  • What plans have been made vs What plans remain to be addressed
    • Via the complementary Personal Planner
  • Who to call and when to call
  • Living Will
    • Via the complementary 5 Wishes Living Will Kit
  • ‘A Letter to My Loved Ones’

PLANNING YOUR WAY

Building You A Bridge

From Today into Tomorrow

For Our Loved Ones

In each of our lives there are people who we would do absolutely anything for.  We cherish their joy and work to shield them from sorrow.

Because we cannot be there to protect and comfort them when we are gone, we can act now to safeguard them as much as we can.

Pre-Planning is our gift to them.

Building You a Bridge - a personal reflection

“I do this for you. I do this because, I know that on the day when you will need me the most, I will not be there for you. I do this because, I know that on that day you will reach out for me and I will not be able to reach back. I know that in the weeks and months that will follow you will miss my smile, my laugh and my embrace. Thinking about that day, I feel deep hurt, not because I will be gone, but because I cannot spare you these heartaches. It is because I will not be there for you ‘then’ that I choose to do what I can ‘now’ to ensure that you will be protected and supported. The plans I make will be there for you, to act as your bridge, your guide and your support as you travel from a life with my physical presence to a life filled with my memory. So, even though this is hard for me to do, I do this for you.”
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Building You a Bridge - a personal reflection

“I do this for you. I do this because, I know that on the day when you will need me the most, I will not be there for you. I do this because, I know that on that day you will reach out for me and I will not be able to reach back. It is because I will not be there for you ‘then’ that I choose to do what I can ‘now’ to ensure that you will be protected and supported....
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When You Know Better, You Can Do Better

There is a quote which I so appreciate offered by Sir William Gladstone, “Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercy of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.”

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