
Prearrange or prepay for a funeral – it’s your choice: Learn more in our consumer magazine for families
Everything you wanted to know about prearranging or prepaying for your funeral – but didn’t know who to ask – is featured in the new issue of Beyond.
The fall edition of the Bereavement Authority of Ontario’s consumer magazine
is available free to the public.
In addition to opening a door to a difficult topic – funeral planning – our online magazine also provides articles of interest on:
- Changing lanes in widowhood; and,
- Buried in Bermuda: The tragic story of three Ontario airmen
To read the magazine in full-screen mode, click on the expand button at the bottom of the webpage.
Read Beyond here.
Please share this magazine with your friends and family. They may subscribe via the link on page two, or click here:
Subscribe to the BAO’s free family magazine, Beyond.
About the BAO
The Bereavement Authority of Ontario (BAO) is a government delegated authority and not-for-profit corporation administering provisions of the Funeral, Burial and Cremation Services Act, 2002 (FBCSA). Accountable to the Minister of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement and the government, the BAO is responsible for the protection of the public interest. The BAO regulates, ensures compliance with the law, provides resources and services to licensed:
- Funeral establishment operators, directors and preplanners;
- Cemetery, crematorium and alternative disposition operators;
- Transfer service operators; and
- Bereavement sector sales representatives across Ontario.
The BAO is wholly funded by licensee fees (not tax dollars).


