6 Reasons to entrust Nirvana with your bereavement care needs
- Reputation for professional and outstanding service
- Best choices for every need at affordable prices
- Backed by a trust fund managed by independent trustees
- Integrated bereavement care services by professionals
- One careline number for immediate assistance
- Flexibility of payment
6 Reasons to entrust Nirvana with your bereavement care needs
Reputation for professional and outstanding service
It is important that you can be able to put your trust in a bereavement care provider with a reputation for professional and outstanding service. With over 30 years of experience in providing top-notch bereavement care and private memorial park operations, Nirvana was founded on the principle that every life deserves to be remembered with respect and the dignity of a proper final send-off. You can be assured that your loved one will celebrated with honour.
Best choices for every need at affordable prices
Your family is as important to us as they are to you. Being an internationally recognised and award bereavement care provider that places great importance on the traditional value of filial piety, we strive to provide you with the best choices in terms of services and products to cater for every need at affordable prices.
Backed by a trust fund managed by independent trustees
Your confidence in us is an investment towards the future security and well-being of your loved ones that we take seriously. That is why Nirvana is backed by a trust fund managed by independent trustees to ensure that no matter what happens, your future needs as well as those of your loved ones will continue to be secured.
Integrated bereavement care services by professionals
Your loved one and family deserve the best timely care. Our integrated bereavement care services will ensure that the needs of your loved one and family are handled quickly by our professionals, all within a single location for a convenient, worry-free experience.
One careline number for immediate assistance
The loss of a loved one is a painful experience but you are not alone. We are ready to render assistance, 24 hours a day all year round. Regardless of where you are, all you have to do is call us.
Flexibility of payment
Choices are important to you. Aside from our variety of products and services, we offer convenience through flexibility with our interest-free instalment payment plans. This way, you and your loved ones can always enjoy peace of mind.
What to do when someone passes away
Our dedicated service representatives are ever ready to assist you every step of the way.
Step 1 : Contact us
We are ready to assist and guide you on what needs to be done.
Step 2 : Planning the funeral
Ensure if there is already a pre-plan in place. Speak with us on our Nirvana Life Plans if there isn’t, or you can choose to custom plan the funeral.
Step 3 : Burial or cremation
Consider between the options of burial and cremation. You may want to recall if the deceased has left specific instructions on this matter and weigh budgetary concerns on both options.
Step 4 : Consider the final resting place
Speak to us if you are unsure on this matter. Nirvana manages multiple private landscaped memorial parks across the region that will suit every need.
Step 5 : Focus on what matters
You may spend your time on what matters most – grieving, saying your goodbyes and healing.
Pre-planning
We prepare for almost everything in life. To cover for the possibility of accidents and sickness, we have insurance. To get married, couples spend months to years to ensure everything goes right. To safeguard our children’s future education, we start an education fund. To live life to the fullest, we have bucket lists. But hold up, are we forgetting something here?
The irony is while we’re busy preparing bucket lists, we seem to forget or ignore the reason why we have them in the first place; that life is finite. Everyone who is born will eventually pass; it’s not a possibility, but an eventuality.
If the thought troubles you, it should. Irrespective of your position in the family – whether you are a husband or wife; father or mother; or even son or daughter – your passing will be the one single event that impacts your family and loved ones the most, both emotionally and financially. So why are we ignoring it? What do we need to do?
The answer is simple: you should pre-plan.
Burial versus cremation
When referring to burial or cremation, this usually relates to the final stage of the funeral involving the disposition of remains. In burial, the remains are interred whole below ground in a cemetery or in some cases, a crypt or mausoleum. In cremation, the remains are incinerated and the ashes are then collected in a cinerary urn. It is then left to the family to decide on the final disposition and the choices are generally interment in a columbarium, burial at a burial plot or scattering (usually at sea).
Between the two, cremation is generally the more economical choice. In recent years, cremation has been gaining in popularity, surpassing burial as the most popular choice. However, one important factor to take note is that certain religions or denominations do not permit cremation while some actually encourage it. Less religious individuals may take environmental impact into consideration but both burial and cremation have its pros and cons when it comes to this topic.
Ultimately if religion is not a factor, burial or cremation is deeply a matter of personal choice. This is one of the reasons why it is always important to keep your loved ones in the loop about your final wishes. Whenever possible, pre-plan to avoid leaving the difficult decision of what to do with your loved ones.
Guide to choosing a bereavement care provider
Engaging the right bereavement care provider is not only important in ensuring that all your needs and concerns are met, but an indispensable assistance. A good bereavement care provider will help shoulder the burden and stress of organising a funeral so that your family can focus on what is more important during an emotional time.
A professional bereavement care provider service consultant should always be attentive, supportive and ready to attend to every concern, enquiry and needs of the bereaved family. Most importantly, you should feel comfortable with their credentials and experience. Take the time to research each one and compare their services and prices. A quick search on the internet often will provide ratings and reviews by experienced bereaved families who have engaged their services.
Don’t be pressured into making choices you are uncomfortable with. There is no doubt that budget is an important consideration; however, at times like these it may not be worthwhile to go with a cheaper option if the bereavement care provider gives you more grief on top of the one you are already dealing with.
5 things to consider when choosing a bereavement care provider
- Religion and culture
- Services and products
- Budget and pricing
- Facilities
- Your comfort
5 things to consider when choosing a bereavement care provider
Religion and culture
Is the bereavement care provider religiously or culturally affiliated? Do they understand your needs on this matter? What is their track record in organising funerals based on your religious and cultural customs?
Services and products
What are the range of services and products offered by the bereavement care provider? Do they offer the kind of services and products which you are actually interested in? Are there any value-added services offered which may actually be helpful?
Budget and pricing
Are the prices of their services and products affordable? Does the pricing actually reflect on the quality of service based on customer reviews?
Facilities
Does the bereavement care provider have facilities that you need in terms of hosting the kind of funeral you desire?
Your comfort
Does the bereavement care provider display proper decorum and empathy? Are they committed in assisting you or do they seem more interested in pushing services and products you don’t need?
A culture that has stood the test of time for over a thousand years is like the flow of water – little by little, it eventually forms a rich history. Established in 1990, Nirvana Asia Group understands this sentiment deeply by embracing our tradition and culture with pride by offering a comprehensive suite of bereavement care services to honour and uplift life.
We embrace life with a positive perspective. Life deserves care, understanding and spiritual nourishment, and that is why we listen from the heart. We are an organisation that prides ourselves in paying tribute to life as well as caring for it. After all, life is measured by the value that we add to it, not by the time in which we are given.
Nirvana Asia Group sincerely champions the preservation of our cultural heritage by revolutionizing it for contemporary times with redefined meaning and added value. As we continuously progress by raising our standards of service through creativity and innovation, we shall pride ourselves in persistently safeguarding cultural heritage. We pay homage and respect to your departed loved ones regardless of status and faith. In other words, we nurture respect and love in recognition of the preciousness of life – past, present and future.