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What To Do When A Loved One Dies

  1. If a loved-on expired in the home, contact a doctor and hospital staff for  confirmation of the death and verification of papers. These papers and death certificates will be much needed when informing the government of the death of its citizen and for the update of insurances and financial securities.
  2. Inform right away the immediate family members concerned, relatives and close friends of the dead.  Friends who are not from town may be informed through an obituary. 
  3. Within the first few hours of death, contact a funeral home right away.  The bereaved family will choose its funeral home.  The funeral home will have funeral organizers and funeral directors that will help with the following, among others:
    1. arrange for the transfer of your loved-one to the funeral home;
    2. facilitate and oversee in the embalmment and in the funeral preparation;
    3. coordination and arrangements and necessary papers for the funeral  services;
    4. funeral directors may also have contacts for cemeteries; and
    5. prepare obituaries or written notices for dissemination or for submission to the local papers.
  4. Prepare appropriate clothes, hairstyle, jewelry and other personals objects that you may wish to send your beloved-dead off with.  This is done before the embalmment process so that the embalmers and morticians may be informed of the family’s wishes for the dead.
  5. Contact your local church.  Having chosen and processed papers with the cemetery of choice, decide on the best day and the best time for the funeral services.
  6. Register the death with the local government. 

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