My mom wants her funeral and burial to take place in her home state of Arizona but lives with me in Texas. How do I go about making this happen? These were her wishes when she was still very lucid. Her and I, my, and a family friend as a witness documented her wishes. Now her dementia is in the latter stages and i think it's time to prepare for her end of life journey.
I recently went through this twice with my parents. The funeral homes were wonderful as everything went smoothy. The cost will be more because the local funeral home will need to fly the casket [in a safety crate so no one knows it contains a casket] on a commercial airliner in cargo.
Then the Arizona funeral home will make arrangements to pick up the casket at the airport and drive the casket back to the funeral home. Then church services can be done or grave side services. Then there will be a cost from that funeral home.
For my parents [both in their 90's], each one had a viewing and then a Mass at the local church. Once at the other funeral home, another viewing, then grave side services. The cost was $15k for each parent. Thank goodness they had already bought their plots years ago.