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But like you said, as you see them getting more ill, you take it upon yourself to try to come in and see what to do, and how we need to do it if something would occur, death at home or something. We just kind of guide you with some options.\n\n\n\nDouglas: What do you need to do? What are the options?\n\n\n\nNichols: We will ask what type of arrangements you'd like, whether it be burial or cremation or whatever else you may have in mind. Say we're doing a burial, we'll go over a general price list, show you our charges, then we'll go over caskets and then a vault if you need a vault. Once we get that type of thing out, and then we get figures and things, depending on how you want to pay, there's two options. Some funeral homes use insurance to put your money into and most people use a trust account. 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It just tells you we're doing what we're supposed to be doing by registering it. And then when death occurs, then we do a death report, and that also goes to to the attorney general. If the money was in there five years and it drew interest, we have to show them that. And if there's a refund coming back to you or not, just because money's in the account, we can't keep all of it. Because the interest is what goes with the inflation. And if it's more monies than what you paid, or what today's price is, then we refund back to the estate.\n\n\n\nDouglas: What if the price has gone up, and it's more than what I put in there? \n\n\n\nNichols: Then the funeral home eats that charge. You don't pay the difference or anything because you paid it in full. We take the chance on taking that loss. \n\n\n\nDouglas: After I went through this process with my mom, it was a relief. I don't even have to think about it. 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