PRE-PLANNING AT NASSAU KNOLLS CEMETERY
What is Pre-planning?
Cemetery pre-planning is the process of making advanced decisions regarding your final resting place. These arrangements may be made for yourself or for a loved one and typically include the selection of burial property, such as graves, mausoleum spaces, or cremation niches. Pre-planning also involves important considerations such as the location of burial plots, cemetery committal services, and perpetual care. In addition, individuals may choose elements of permanent memorialization, including headstones, markers, or monuments. Pre-planning occurs when final arrangement plans are made for a future unspecified need (e .g. Plans made in good health, years or decades before an illness or death).
Benefits of Pre-planning:
The purpose of this process is to provide care, comfort, and control. Preplanning helps families ease and monetary strain on loved ones during difficult times. It allows you to secure a beautiful and desirable spot for your final resting place.
General Reasons People Pre-plan for Cemeteries:
- Avoiding and reducing likelihood of emotional overspending.
- Make personal wishes and desires known.
- Ability to obtain value and save money (lower costs, budgeting).
- Remove decision making and stress from family.
Making Personal Wishes and Desires Known Reducing Family Stressors:
Pre-planning helps to ensure that your individual preferences and wishes are known and may be honored. When your wishes are
clearly expressed, this allows your loved ones to feel in control that they are making the right choice on how their loved ones want
their final services to be handled. Without pre-planning, loved ones who are responsible for making these decisions may make
decisions contrary to what their loved ones wanted, and this may cause tension amongst surviving family members
Planning to Preserve Assets and Save Money:
Pre-planning allows individuals to make financially prudent arrangement decisions: to budget comfortably over time and save money.
The benefit of purchasing a grave ahead of time is to be locked into the current price. By getting locked into the current cost, you are
avoiding all future cost increases and inflation. Without costs being frozen, overtime prices will continuously increase. Time payment
plans are set in place for those who do not need the grave for an immediate burial and are preplanning. There is 0% interest in
paying off a grave overtime.
Nassau Knolls Cemetery Pre-planning Program:
Nassau Knolls cemetery offers a time payment program for our customers who wish to plan where their final resting place will be. At
Nassau Knolls, we have different types of ways in which you can have a burial. The options provided are as listed: Full casket burial
and or cremation burial. We have many different sections to choose from. The time-payment program is set up with a breakdown
below.
Flat Bronze Memorial Park: (see rules and regulations)
Our flat bronze marker sections provide beautiful greenery and landscapes. In our flat bronze marker sections, you can bury both
caskets and cremations since these are full sized graves. All graves at Nassau Knolls Cemetery allow for two burials. The grave is
marked by a bronze marker that sits flush with the ground and is located at the foot of the grave. If you were to select a grave in one
of our flat bronze marker sections, you would put 10% down of the cost of the grave. The remaining balance is to be paid over 36
months interest free.
Urn Gardens: (See rules and regulations)
Our Urn Garden sections are designed for those who wish to be cremated . These graves are for cremation burials ONLY and allows
for two cremations to be buried in each grave. Time Payment Plan: 10% down on the cost of the grave. The remaining balance is to
be paid over 36 months interest free.
Headstone Memorial Sections: (See rules and regulations)
Our traditional upright headstone sections allow for the burials of full-sized caskets and cremations as well. These are full
sized graves and are marked by headstones at the head of the grave. Time Payment Plan: Put 25% down on the cost of the
grave. The remaining cost of the grave is paid off in 36 months interest free.
Mausoleums/Columbariuml Tower Atrium: (See rules and regulations)
These above ground structures allow for the burials of both full-size caskets and cremations. You can either select a Crypt
or a Niche. Crypts allow for the burial of full-sized caskets or cremations where niches are for cremation burials ONLY.Time Payment Plan: Put 25% down on the cost of the crypt/niche. The remaining cost of the grave is paid off in 36 months interest-free.
“Please be aware that the down deposit for graves can be paid by Visa, MasterCard or Discover. The remaining value ofthe grave is to be paid by personal check and or bill pay set up through your bank.
Questions & Considerations:
What type of burial would I like to have?
You will want to decide whether you would like to have an inground burial or if you would like to be buried above ground. Another
deciding factor for the spot you choose will be if you desire to have a full casket burial or if you wish to be cremated.
What type of memorialization is most important for me to have?
Whether you want your grave marked by a flat bronze marker, traditional upright headstone, or by a crypt/niche front this is an
important deciding factor on where you will choose your final resting place to be.
What is the most affordable budget for me?
Selecting a grave that aligns with your desired budget is one of the most important factors to consider when making your decision.
Thoughtful planning ensures that you choose an option that meets both your financial preferences and your long-term needs.