Dignity Memorial Escape School
Each year, more than 58,000 children are abducted by strangers. As funeral care providers, we truly understand the tragedy and pain associated with the loss of a child. Our goal is to show every family how to be smart, not scared. To arm children and their parents with abduction-prevention tips and tactics, we offer a nationally recognized safety program known as Dignity Memorial Escape School.
Delivered free of charge by trained Dignity Memorial employees, presentations are often requested by community organizations, church groups, scouts and schools. Offered in an entertaining and non-threatening manner, the program teaches children how to differentiate between good and bad strangers, the common lures abductors use, how to "get away, right away" and how to find help when needed. In addition to teaching key concepts, presenters enlist the aid of children from the audience to demonstrate several simple yet highly effective techniques for escaping dangerous situations.
Dignity Memorial Smart & Safe Living
Each year, many seniors fall prey to the elements of their environment, including crime, injury and illness. To help keep older adults safe and out of harm’s way, Dignity Memorial network providers created a unique and long-term safety program known as Dignity Memorial Smart & Safe Living. The program empowers older adults by discussing how simple strategies and techniques can be used to increase personal safety.
Since the program’s creation in 1996, thousands of seniors throughout the U.S. and Canada have attended free presentations on topics including Home Invasion, Cons and Scams, Fire and Burn Safety, and Heat Safety. New presentations are continually added as trends in society evolve.
Dignity Memorial Public Servants Program
Recognizing the courage and selflessness of those who serve the public, Dignity Memorial network providers created the Public Servants Program for emergency service personnel. This program offers dignified and honorable tributes, at no cost, for career and volunteer law enforcement officers and firefighters who fall in the line of duty.
For more than ten years, the program has helped families deal with the emotional and financial burden associated with the sudden loss of a loved one. In addition to providing burial services, the program offers extended counseling services to family members who experience this unsettling change in their lives, as well as the opportunity to create an Internet tribute to memorialize their fallen hero.
Dignity Memorial Homeless Veterans Burial Program
Dignity Memorial funeral, cremation and cemetery providers are honored to administer the Homeless Veterans Burial Program. In partnership with numerous veterans organizations, Dignity Memorial providers help to ensure that eligible veterans receive the honors in death that their service in life merited.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs provides eligible veterans with opening and closing of the gravesite, a grave liner, a headstone or marker, a graveside ceremony and burial in a National Cemetery. Participating Dignity Memorial funeral directors provide transportation, preparation, clothing and casket.
This program is available in select U.S. markets.
Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is the most-visited National Park Service site in Washington, D.C. Even so, millions of Americans will never see or experience the impact of "The Wall" in their lives. To allow more people this opportunity, Dignity Memorial network providers created a three-quarter-scale traveling replica of the memorial in 1990.
Known as the Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall, this faux-granite replica is dedicated to all Americans who served in Vietnam and honors all servicemen and women of the United States military forces. Each year the replica crisscrosses the country, allowing millions of visitors to see and touch its black, mirror-like surface inscribed with the names of more than 58,000 Americans who died or are missing in Vietnam. Every exhibition is sponsored by a local Dignity Memorial provider, with the help and support of area veterans groups and civic organizations. (This program is only available in the United States.)
Dignity Memorial Personal Planning Guide
This guide documents funeral, cremation and cemetery preferences. A completed Personal Planning Guide provides a personal plan of action that helps relieve families of many of the decisions that must be made at the time of a loved one’s death.
It also documents additional family information such as military history, family heritage, estate information, insurance coverage and an inventory of personal property. The Personal Planning Guide is an important reference document for family.
Grief Management Library
Picking Up The Pieces® is a series of free brochures, videotapes and booklets offering helpful advice to families coping with the loss of a loved one. Each individual must deal with grief in his or her own way. Picking Up the Pieces materials offer helpful advice and insights to anyone trying to cope with the complex emotions accompanying such a loss.
Included with all Dignity Memorial Plans.
Dignity Memorial Prearranged Services
There are many advantages to arranging your funeral, cremation or cemetery services in advance with a Dignity Memorial® provider.
- You protect your family from having to make such decisions at a difficult time.
- You make your wishes known to your loved ones.
- You make your own decisions about the type of service, merchandise and price.
- You prevent emotional overspending by family members who can only guess what you might have wanted.
- Your funeral, cremation or cemetery prearrangement is transferable to 1800 other Dignity Memorial providers in 41 states and seven Canadian provinces if you move more than 75 miles.
- You lock in today’s prices for services that may not be needed for many years
24-Hour Compassion Helpline
The 24-Hour Compassion Helpline is a counseling service included in select Dignity Memorial® funeral and cremation plans. Through this toll free number, professionally trained grief counselors offer support and guidance at a difficult time.
Available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, this Family Support Benefit gives families somewhere to turn for help, especially when normal support networks like clergy and friends are unavailable.
Aftercare Planner
Managing business affairs and closing an estate after the loss of a loved one can be a daunting process. Unfortunately, many of these details require immediate attention. The Aftercare Planner is a comprehensive guide that provides a step-by-step organizational system to help simplify and prioritize the tasks at hand.
Included with select Dignity Memorial® Plans, this Family Support Benefit includes pre-written letters, helpful tips on estate management and a system to track all of your activities. The Aftercare Planner helps to organize personal matters and may also reduce professional fees and unnecessary service charges.
Internet Memorialization
All Dignity Memorial® Plans include Making Everlasting Memories®, a collection of photos, writings, documents and other images that are digitally archived in a way that can be viewed via the Internet across the oceans and beyond the boundaries of lifetimes.
This Internet feature allows grandchildren and future generations to read and understand the unique and endearing qualities of those who have been loved, and it allows MeM® web site visitors to post and record their own messages of condolence and personal recollections of the person honored. (Visit www.mem.com )
Dignity Memorial® Bereavement Travel
The Dignity Memorial Bereavement Travel Program provides the best available travel options, often with significant savings, on airfare, lodging and car rentals throughout most of the United States and Canada, as well as certain other international destinations. The program helps family members make travel arrangements through the assistance of dedicated travel agents.
As a benefit of selecting a Dignity Memorial provider, up to four members of the immediate family may utilize the program to travel to attend the funeral, memorial or graveside service.
If a Dignity Memorial funeral, cremation or cemetery plan is selected, the Dignity Memorial Bereavement Travel Program is extended so that all family members and friends may use it to attend the funeral, memorial or graveside service. The extended program also allows return trips to settle estate matters and other family business.
Child/Grandchild Protection
Dignity Memorial® providers recognize the tragedy associated with the loss of a young person. For that reason, as an additional benefit, Dignity Memorial Plans provide funeral or cremation services at no charge in the unfortunate event that an unmarried child or grandchild under the age of 21 passes away. Called the Child/Grandchild Protection program, the benefit that will be provided for each child or grandchild is up to the value of the services and merchandise selected on the parent's or grandparent's funeral or cremation Plan. (Not available in Maryland. Plan must be paid-in-full.)
Dignity Memorial Telephone Card
When a loved one has passed away, many people need to be notified. Included with select Dignity Memorial Plans the Dignity Memorial Telephone Card provides one hour of free long-distance service so you can connect with family and friends. The Dignity Memorial Telephone Card can be used from public as well as private phones.
Omni Law Membership
This Family Support Benefit is included in select Dignity Memorial® Plans and provides access to several paid-in-full and reduced-rate legal services for up to one year.
Through the Legal Services Membership, eligible family members receive paid-in-full services that include unlimited telephone consultations on legal matters, preparation of important legal documents such as simple wills and Powers of Attorney, and assistance in resolving problems with third parties. Member-only reduced rates are offered on various other covered legal matters.