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[quote=Anonymous]I recently had to help my mother with this for my father. I knew costs would be expensive, but was still very shocked.

This was in Virginia, not NOVA but about 2 hours away. My father was cremated, but you still have to buy a box they put the body in that gets burned, then the urn, storage, getting death certificate, etc all in was about $8,000. My mother chose this particular funeral home under duress in the ER 5 minutes after my father tragically and suddenly died IMO but I don't think they scammed her. It is just someone told us later that if we had called the Virginia Cremation Society (I believe there is a cremation society for each state), they can coordinate and it is much cheaper.

My mother already owned the burial plot, she bought it a very long time ago. She has not made any arrangements to bury my father's ashes and instead has opened the urn and the bag and spread some of my father in random places over the last 2 years (I have no control over this). But I believe in order to have the urn buried the cemetery said it would be $3,000. Not sure about the headstone. [/quote]

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