What happens when you pre-arrange and pre-pay for your funeral services in Vancouver, only to find that a change of job or other life circumstances forces you to move to another part of the country?
“Not a problem,” says Andrew Knapman, Location Manager for Forest Lawn Funeral Home in Burnaby. “We offer our National Transferability Program with all our pre-arranged plans. If you move across Canada, or even down to the United States, you’ll likely find that there are many funeral homes in your new area where you can utilize your pre-arranged plan.”
The benefit for Vancouverites, according to Andrew, is that you avoid the necessity of cancelling one plan and restarting the process all over.
“You can simply take your existing funeral plan and use it directly at another funeral home,” he says.
For Vancouver residents who often downsize the family home and move to a smaller community post-retirement, the national transferability option offered by Forest Lawn Funeral Home and Ocean View Funeral Home is a definite advantage.
Another advantage is the ability to plan a funeral service and burial or cremation with a knowledgeable and caring local director, while benefiting from the director’s connection to a large network of funeral homes and cemeteries across North America.
Being part of Dignity Memorial® network, the largest network of funeral homes in North America, also means that customers of Forest Lawn Funeral Home and Ocean View Funeral Home are able to take advantage of help in the event of an unforeseen accident.
“We work very closely within our network,” Andrew says, “and if a customer with a pre-arranged funeral plan passes away in another part of Canada or the United States, there would likely be a funeral home from our network close by that could help the family at no additional cost, other than shipping costs for bringing the loved one home.”
Customers of Forest Lawn Funeral Home and Ocean View Funeral Home also have access to an acclaimed grief management library. The online library includes topics such as coping with grief on special days – such as Father’s Day or Mother’s day– looking at grief from a child’s perspective, and dealing with grief in the workplace.
To learn more about the National Transferability Program, available at both Forest Lawn Funeral Home and Ocean View Funeral Home in Burnaby, call 1-800-34-DIGNITY or go to the Forest Lawn website or the Ocean View website. Forest Lawn is at 3789 Royal Oak Ave and Ocean View is at 4000 Imperial Street.
