Whatever you decide to do, you should know that you are able to make your funeral plans now and pay for them now at today's prices. 

This will help your family avoid additional decisions and expenses at the time of your death.  Our staff at Buswell Funeral Home can assist you with these decisions.  Pre-arranging is a thoughtful gift to your family.

Through Pre-Planning with a funeral director from Buswell Funeral Home, you provide a gift to your family. You remove both the information-finding burden and financial problems they may face following your death. You convey your wishes, sparing them frustration and disharmony. Pre-Planning is a thoughtful and loving task. It carries with it the advantage of payment at today’s prices, avoiding increasing costs.

Burial Services and Chapel
 
At the time of death, Buswell Funeral Home will work closely with the family member handling the arrangements and help you in every way to plan the services. Our home has a chapel-like setting in our peaceful, quiet home. Speak to a funeral director for more details about chapel services at the funeral home.

As a special service to families & their loved ones, we have prepared a printable pre-planning guide to assist you in helping your loved ones locate important documents and letting them know of your last wishes.  Download it here.

You can also find power of attorney forms, healthcare directives, etc. from the State of Wisconsin Click Here.

For information regarding organ donation, please Click Here where you will find some very helpful information to assist you in making this life-giving decision.

Traditional/Full Service Funeral

Since the beginning of recorded history, people have publicly viewed their dead with dignity and ceremony. Although rituals differ, the funeral service meets the needs of the living, as well as providing for the deceased.

The funeral declares that death has occurred and it offers a testimonial to a life well lived. Denial of a death is common. The occasion of a funeral and the viewing of the body (or casket) facilitates the realization of death. It is of deep psychological significance and healing to the living. Sorrow shared is sorrow diminished. This is the first step toward emotional adjustment after bereavement.

If you choose a traditional service you can be buried in the ground in a traditional grave or entombed in an above-ground mausoleum (where available).

Cremation

Increasingly, cremation is a funeral choice. Some choose cremation because of religious beliefs or ethnic customs, others because of cost. For still others, cremation is a personal preference.

Many people are unaware of how many different choices they have:

• Cremation following a traditional visitation and funeral:  This involves a visitation or viewing with a funeral ceremony and church or memorial services. In Wisconsin, funeral homes are permitted to rent caskets for viewing and services.

• Direct Cremation with Memorial Service:  This involves taking the deceased directly to the crematorium.  A memorial service in church or funeral home with the cremated remains may still be held.

• Direct Cremation:  The deceased is taken directly to the crematorium with the family receiving the cremated remains for final disposition