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CHOOSING THE BEST FUNERAL INSURANCE (Spring 2024)
- Choosing the Best Funeral Insurance
- Celebration of Life Ideas to Honor a Loved One
- Memorial Gifts to Honor a Loved One or Pet
- Have a Funeral Related Question or Story?

FUNERAL CELEBRANT OR FUNERAL DIRECTOR (Fall 2023)
- Funeral Celebrant or Funeral Director: Which Do You Need?
- What is Day of the Dead
- Sites We Recommend
- Resources To Help You Plan a Funeral

AFTER THE FUNERAL (Summer 2023)
- What To Do After The Funeral
- Help with Estate Execution
- Terraloom–Unique Memorialization Ceremonies
- What is a Funeral Celebrant?

FUNERAL PLANNING ADVICE FROM A CHATBOT (March 2023)
- Artificial Intelligence and the Funeral Industry
- An AI Chatbot Thinks We Should Plan Our Funeral In Advance
- Do Robots Deserve Funerals
- Funeral Resources

PREPAID CREMATION PLANS (September 2022)
- Prepaid Cremation Plans
- Second Right of Interment
- Talking About Your Funeral
- Scattering Ashes
- Insurance Resources
- Giving Gift Baskets

SHARING END-OF-LIFE PLANS (May 2022)
- Do your loved ones know what you want?
- One less thing to worry about.
- Making funeral arrangements easier.
- Wise Protection Plan.
- Let us help your group or organization.

WE HAVE A WHOLE NEW LOOK (Feb 2022)
- Funeralwise Has a Fresh New Look
- What is a Death Doula?
- New Collegiate Urns
- The Wise Protection Plan
- 10 Tips for Having a Cheap Funeral
- Coming Soon to Funeralwise

WE ARE THANKFUL FOR YOU (Nov 2021)
- Handling Grief Over the Holidays
- The Funeralwise Protection Plan
- Celebration of Life Versus a Funeral
- 10 Things to Know About Cremation

A NEW APPROACH TO FUNERAL PLANNING (Aug 2021)
- Retirement Plan versus Funeral Plan
- Wise Planning Tip: Activating Your Plan
- Funeralwise Protection Plan
- Caring for Cremation Ashes

FOCUS ON FUNERAL INSURANCE (May 2021)
- Funeral Insurance: Preneed or Final Expense? What’s right for you?
- Etiquette for Virtual Funerals
- Having a Cheap Funeral That Doesn’t Look Cheap
- FEMA Funeral Reimbursement Program

OUR ANNUAL PLANNING TIPS (February 2021)
- What’s your plan?
- Why have a Funeralwise plan when you already have a prepaid plan?
- Creating a Ceremony
- Choosing Funeral Products

WE ARE THANKFUL FOR YOU (November 2020)
- We Are Thankful for You
- Preparing the Perfect Sympathy Meal
- Grief Over the Holidays
- Funeral Music

WE STILL NEED FUNERALS (August 2020)
- Where are Funerals When You Need Them?
- Funeral Celebrants
- Decluttering
- Paying For A Funeral

FUNERALS IN THE TIME OF COVID (May 2020)
- Goodbye for Now
- Creating a Ceremony
- FW Favorites: Gifts
- The Costs of Funeral Preplanning
- Wise Planning System Special Offer

GET READY FOR SPRING (March 2020)
- Update Your Funeral Plan
- Take Care of Your Heart
- Paper Versus Online Planning
- Trends: Decluttering
- New Store Items

WE ARE THANKFUL FOR YOU (November 2019)
- Sympathy Gifts
- Travel Protection Plan
- Handling Grief Over the Holidays
- TRENDS: Funeral Celebrants
- Having a Funeral For a Pet

THE BEST IS YET TO COME (August 2019)
- Our Memorial Store
- Calculating Funeral Costs
- Funeral Food
- Pet Loss: What Not to Say

MAKING FUNERALS MORE PERSONAL (May 2019)
- Using Music to Personalize a Funeral
- Funeral or Celebration of Life — Is there a difference?
- 5 Things I Love About Being a Celebrant
- Honoring Animals With Ceremony

USING A FUNERAL CELEBRANT: A GROWING TREND (February 2019)
- When Someone Loses A Pet
- Travel Protection Plans
- Planning vs. Prepaying
- Digital Dying

GRIEF AND THE HOLIDAYS (November 2018)
- Death Positive Quiz
- Try Our New Insurance Finder
- Our Guide Series
- Survey Says…

HAVE YOU SEEN THE ALL-NEW DIGITAL DYING (August 2018)
- Making the Right Funeral Attire Choices
- Funeralwise Forums has the Answers to Your Questions
- Funeral Costs: Take a Look at the Big Ticket Items
- We Want to Buy You a Cup of Coffee

ARE YOU PART OF THE 50% (April 2018)
- Funerals by the Numbers
- The Scoop on Costs
- Designing a Good Funeral
- Funeral Insurance Update

PAYING FOR A FUNERAL (January 2018)
- Keeping Costs Down
- Alternative Ways to Fund a Funeral
- Honoring a Loved One Without Breaking the Bank
- Home Funerals to Help Beat the Cost