State laws often permit funerals/burials far cheaper than almost any funeral home will be willing to offer you. Buying cremation directly and then burying or scattering the ashes on your own, or on land of a church or other group (perhaps marked with a communal memorial stone), is way more inexpensive ($1000-2000) than dealing with funeral homes.
No-frills funerals earn so much less profit than a full $5000-10000 contract that funeral homes waste their time trying to stay in business with anyone who is being merely appropriate. Free enterprise in the industry depends on survivors’ guilt or pride, or their deceived judgment as to what their real duty and propriety are.
For an example of a religious congregation that advises its members on its affordable, totally simple arrangements, check out how cheap it can be - even in NYC - on the web at NYQM dot org > “Cemetery” way down the right column. To see some hard data, scroll halfway down.
State laws often permit funerals/burials far cheaper than almost any funeral home will be willing to offer you. Buying cremation directly and then burying or scattering the ashes on your own, or on land of a church or other group (perhaps marked with a communal memorial stone), is way more inexpensive ($1000-2000) than dealing with funeral homes.
No-frills funerals earn so much less profit than a full $5000-10000 contract that funeral homes waste their time trying to stay in business with anyone who is being merely appropriate. Free enterprise in the industry depends on survivors’ guilt or pride, or their deceived judgment as to what their real duty and propriety are.
For an example of a religious congregation that advises its members on its affordable, totally simple arrangements, check out how cheap it can be - even in NYC - on the web at NYQM dot org > “Cemetery” way down the right column. To see some hard data, scroll halfway down.