Plan ahead using end-of-life benefits provided by VA. You've earned your benefits and that includes benefits for your survivors. Ensure your loved ones receive these benefits after you pass away. End-of-life planning provides surviving family members with peace of mind following their Veteran's death.

• Benefits for your spouse, dependents and survivors
• Advance Care Planning
• Burial and memorial benefits

Veterans, service members, and some family members may be eligible for burial in a VA national cemetery. Visit the VA Burials and memorials eligibility section to find out if you, or a person you’re planning a burial for, can get this benefit.

VA burial benefits can help service members, Veterans, and their family members plan and pay for a burial or memorial service in a VA national cemetery. Family members can also order memorial items to honor the service of a Veteran. Find out how to apply for the burial benefits you've earned, and how to plan for a burial in advance or at time of need.

• Get Veterans burial benefits
• Plan a burial
• Request for casket/urn allowance
• More information and resources
• Other VA benefits and services

While planning a burial for a Veteran or Reservist, you can apply for certain memorial items to honor their military service. An eligible spouse or other family member buried in a national cemetery, or certain other Veterans or military cemeteries, may also qualify for a headstone or marker to identify the place of burial.

• Veterans headstones, markers, and medallions
  • Apply for one of these memorial items to identify the burial place of a Veteran or eligible spouse or other family member.
• Burial flags
  • Apply for a United States flag to drape over a casket or coffin or place with an urn.
• Presidential Memorial Certificates
  • Apply for an engraved certificate signed by the current president.
    

Calverton National Cemetery has space available to accommodate casketed burials and the interment of cremains in-ground or in columbaria. An ossuary is available. Burial in a national cemetery is open to all members of the armed forces who have met a minimum active duty service requirement and were discharged under conditions other than dishonorable.

The New York State Veterans Cemetery – Finger Lakes formerly known as the Sampson Veterans Memorial Cemetery occupies 162 acres along Seneca Lake in Romulus, Seneca County, and is adjacent to Sampson State Park.

• Services
• Eligibility
• Application Process
• Documents and Forms
• Book a Consultation