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A letter of funeral wishes, with a budget

Say what you want. Say what to spend.

Write down the funeral you want and the most you want spent on it, in your own words, so the people you love are not left guessing at a hard time. Print it, keep a card in your wallet, and share a read-only copy.

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  • Encrypted under your private link
  • Free to write and print
$1,275under the ceiling
Spend no more than
$4,500
Budget written
$3,225

Kindly Noted · wallet card

My funeral wishes are written down.

Ruth A.

The letter is kept

A printed copy is in the blue folder; Anne has a link.

Please ask

My daughter, Anne

Example. Names and amounts are made up.
1Write your wishesBurial or cremation, the service, the music, who leads it. 2Set a ceilingThe most you want spent, and your own budget lines. 3Print and tellA letter for the drawer and a card for your wallet. 4Share a family linkA read-only copy that stays up to date.

Put your preferences in writing, give copies to family members and your attorney, and keep a copy in a handy place.

The same page adds: “Don't designate your preferences in your will, because a will often is not found or read until after the funeral.”

Federal Trade Commission, Planning Your Own Funeral

Write your wishesSix short sections. Skip anything. Change it any time. Set your budgetA spending ceiling your family can point to.

Your numbers, not ours

A budget in your own figures

Write the most you want spent. Then add your own lines: ask funeral homes for their price lists and copy the amounts you would choose. We add up the funeral home, cemetery and cash-advance items and show how far under or over your ceiling you are.

Kindly Noted never suggests a price, never names or rates a funeral home and never shows “average” costs. A starter list adds item names only, so you know what to ask about.

By federal rule a funeral home must give prices on the phone and a printed price list to keep when you ask in person. See the exact words.

Example budget (made-up amounts)
Basic services of funeral director and staff$1,950
Transfer of remains to the funeral home$395
Cremation$425
Alternative container$95
Room rental and coffee$300
Certified death certificates$60
Total written$3,225
Ceiling$4,500

Private by design

Only your link opens your letter

There is no account to break into. Your letter is encrypted on our server, and the key comes from your private link, which we never store. Family links each carry their own key and can be turned off one by one. There is no way to recover a lost link, so keep it safe (and print the letter).

How privacy works here

Plain pricing

The letter is free. The Pass only adds room.

You never need to pay to write your wishes, print them or share them with one person.

Free

$0

  • The whole letter, all six sections
  • One budget with 12 lines
  • Print the letter and a wallet card
  • 1 family link
  • The 3 most recent saved versions

Planning Pass

$1.95 for one month

or $19.50 for one year. Paid once. Never renews.

  • Up to 3 budgets side by side (say, burial and cremation)
  • 40 lines per budget
  • 5 family links
  • Every saved version (up to 50)
  • Your budgets as a spreadsheet (CSV)

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