Families often underestimate the costs of a funeral and can often feel torn once the time comes to pay for these services. Preparing for your own funeral can be the perfect way to organize a ceremony in your image, without having to sacrifice on the quality of the services. Mostly, it is a great way to unburden your loved ones from an additional responsibility after you are gone.

How to prepare your own funeral? Crématel guides you and tells you more about the different packages offered and their prices.

Why Choose Funeral Prearrangements?

Unburden Your Loved Ones

Once you leave for your final resting place, your loved ones will have to deal with numerous administrative procedures, without forgetting the emotional pain they will have to go through. Taking care of this responsibility and reducing their To Do list can bring comfort in difficult times, especially given the fact that they won’t have to figure out your preferences or last wishes. Find out more about cremation in Quebec.

Saving Money

When choosing a funeral prearrangement contract, costs are significantly advantageous. In fact, you are paying for a service that, we hope, you won’t need for years to come, at the costs it represents today. This is, in fact, an investment that is protected from inflation, helping you save money and allowing your bereaved loved ones to save money as well.

Make Sure That Your Last Wishes are Respected

Would you like a viewing or not? What kind of urn do you like? Would you like a civil or religious ceremony? You can be sure to have your last wishes respected. A ceremony in your image will also be soothing to your loved ones, whom you can choose to implicate in your decision or not.

Our Funeral Prearrangement Packages and Prices

From a simple cremation to a viewing in a funeral home, we offer 5 packages adapted to your preferences. Take a closer look at our funeral packages, along with their affordable prices, with no hidden fees.

*If it is an imminent death, please call us instead at 1 888-510-1112

SIMPLE CREMATION | PRE

$*1145
  • Professional Fees
  • Service Coordination
  • Preparation of Government Forms
  • Transportation of the Deceased **
  • Cremation Container
  • Cremation
  • Ecological Transport Urn
  • Passing of the Ashes to the Family at our Complex
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* Plus taxes with no hidden fees.

SIMPLE CREMATION WITH URN | PRE

$*1312
  • Professional Fees
  • Service Coordination
  • Preparation of Government Forms
  • Transportation of the Deceased **
  • Cremation Container
  • Cremation
  • Merruse Wood Urn
  • Passing of the Ashes to the Family at our Complex
CHOOSE THIS PACKAGE

* Plus taxes with no hidden fees.

ASHES CEREMONY AT THE PARLOUR | PRE

$*1877
  • Professional Fees
  • Service Coordination
  • Preparation of Government Forms
  • Transportation of the Deceased **
  • Cremation Container
  • Cremation
  • Use of a Parlour for 2 Hours
  • Passing of the Ashes to the Family at our Complex
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* Plus taxes with no hidden fees.

LAST TRIBUTE AT THE PLACE OF WORSHIP IN THE PRESENCE OF THE ASHES | PRE

$*1924
  • Professional Fees
  • Service Coordination
  • Preparation of Government Forms
  • Transportation of the Deceased **
  • Cremation Container
  • Cremation
  • Funeral Director at the Place of Worship
  • Passing of the Ashes to the Family at our Complex
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* Plus taxes with no hidden fees.

VIEWING OF THE DECEASED (4H) FOLLOWED BY CREMATION | PRE

$*3451
  • Professional Fees
  • Service Coordination
  • Preparation of Government Forms
  • Transportation of the Deceased **
  • Cremation Container
  • Cremation
  • Embalming
  • Use of a Viewing Room for 4 Hours
  • Passing of the Ashes to the Family at our Complex
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* Plus taxes with no hidden fees.

Why Choose Crématel as a Funeral Company?

Thanks to our customizable packages, which are the most affordable on the market, we have numerous, highly satisfied clients. This is also because we take care of the deceased and all of the administrative formalities, and because we provide people with caring and attentive support during their grieving process.

Our counselors are here to answer all of your questions or walk you through the package you have selected online.

What exactly is a funeral prearrangement contract?

Funeral prearrangements in Quebec are a contract signed with a funeral company and which includes all of the funeral services and products included in your ceremony. This is also a contract that you can pay off upon signing, so that you can take care of the bill before your passing.

The contract includes information like where the ceremony will take place, the urns and coffin, the music and decorations, the type of ceremony and any other specifications you may want to include.

Cancelations or Modifications

Funeral prearrangements can be canceled or modified at any time. In the event of a cancelation, a 10 % penalty on the value of the services could be charged, according to the Act for Respecting Arrangements for Funeral Services and Sepultures. Do not hesitate to contact us to find out more.

How to Finance your Funeral Prearrangements?

With Crématel, you can spread out payments over a period of up to 60 months without interests, which will allow you to choose the package and products your really want. This will also allow you to pay for your funeral fees at your own pace.

What is the Death Benefit in Quebec?

All employees who have made contributions to the Quebec Pension Plan for at least 5 years is admissible to a lump sum of $ 2,500, paid to the deceased. Your liquidator will have to complete the verifications and place the request once you are gone.

Our funeral company in Saint-Jerome takes care of all of your prearrangements for you. Thanks to a customized contract and flexible payment agreement, make sure you have a memorial ceremony that respects your last wishes.

FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions

According to the Funeral Operations Act, 90 % of your money will be placed in an in-trust account to which the company providing you with the services does not have access, even in the event of a bankruptcy.

Yes, our prearrangement contracts are flexible and can be adapted to different cultures and religions. Do not hesitate to inform our professionals of all of your specific requests.

Yes, you can include the obituary in your prearrangements, especially if you would like to include or exclude the name of certain people or would like to choose specific wording.

When you sign a contract, it is then registered with the Office de la protection du consommateur. This means that it is a formal contract that has to comply with all of the specific requirements that were indicated in your prearrangements.

Prices for funeral prearrangements are not affected by inflation. No matter the price increases and inflation, you are protected by a price freeze and will receive services of the same quality as those for which you have paid.

Prearrangements can generally include a burial or a cremation. However, a burial requires another document: a sepulchre contract, which includes the purchase and maintenance of a burial plot in a cemetery. A sepulchre contract can also be purchased for the burial of an urn.

Yes, you are free to indicate any last wish you hold dear, including about every aspect of the ceremony.

TESTIMONIAL

I cannot begin to thank you all enough for everything that you helped us with when Mom passed away. I wouldn’t have been able to do this without your help. You constantly kept our feelings and emotions into consideration and made us feel cared for. You went above and beyond what we paid for. My gratitude is endless, and I am incredibly thankful for your help. Thank you so much for all that you’ve done.

P.DESCHAMPS – St-Eustache

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