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Choose trusted contacts
Write down who should be called and who knows your wishes. Name the people you want to help with choices. These may be funeral, legal, health, faith, or family choices.
Plan ahead now
Plan a farewell around what matters to you.
If nobody has died
Plan your individual funeral around your religion, faith, culture, needs and wishes. Explore your options, understand costs and write down what matters. Share the plan with people you trust. Start anywhere, leave questions open and change your mind whenever you like.
Start with your choices. Bring in the people you trust.
Use the free planning tools and education to explore what you want. Plan with family or professional support, and contact providers when you are ready. Saving preferences does not book a service or create a prepaid contract.
- What you would wantAbout ten minutes: burial or cremation, the service, music, who to call. Print it or send it to your family.
- Plan online with your familyA free private space to keep your wishes, papers and trusted contacts together.
- Check a price before you commit to anyoneCheck a funeral home’s offer against real Tennessee price lists.
- Planning ahead in NashvilleLocal prices, cemeteries and veteran burial.
- Before you pay aheadWhat a Tennessee prepaid funeral contract must tell you, and your refund rights.
Wishes
Describe what matters to you
Say if you want burial or cremation. Describe the kind of service you would like. Note any faith or family customs, music, or readings. Add facts for your obituary and how you want to be remembered.
Information
Help your family find records
Write down where to find your important papers. This includes insurance, military records, and cemetery plans. It also includes notes about your online accounts and any contracts with funeral providers. Do not put private numbers here.
Getting ready in Tennessee
Find out who will likely have the legal right to choose burial or cremation.
Write down any plans you already have. This includes funeral, cremation, cemetery, insurance, or plans paid ahead.
Talk about a rough budget. Talk about whether savings or insurance may help pay.
Keep your legal name, birth facts, family details, and military history easy to find.
Look over your wishes from time to time. Tell someone you trust where the latest copy is kept.
What Hestia does and does not do
Hestia helps you keep facts in order and helps your family work together. It does not make a will. It does not make an advance directive, which is a paper that says what health care you want. It does not name someone to make health choices for you. It does not make a paid-ahead funeral contract. It does not create legal signed permission for burial or cremation.
When you need legal, medical, money, or licensed funeral advice, talk to the right expert in Tennessee.
See Tennessee informationWhen the time comes
Your plan can be where your family starts.
Give a copy of your wishes to someone you trust. They can use it when setting up a Hestia family space; access to this browser does not transfer automatically. There they can share the work and compare providers. They can make plans knowing what you wanted.
See the three partsFor death doulas, hospice workers and social workers
Help each family make a plan of their own.
We are inviting professionals and care teams to a paid pilot for client planning. Family planning stays free; professional seats support work across clients.
Bring your experience. Help families explore their wishes, understand choices and prepare for provider conversations.
Explore professional seats →Paid pilot by agreement. Pricing and scope are agreed before access.