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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you need to have a funeral home funeral?

3 of my grandparents had funerals at churches.  Those were really memorial services.  And they were scheduled a while after the deaths in order to facilitate family participation at low cost.

My family only does cremation.  And no open casket/viewings.

I believe this would save a lot of money.[/quote]

I am PP whose father died and suddenly found myself navigating the cremation alone (my mother and siblings said they couldn’t do it). i didn’t know about cremation societies at the time and the hospital was putting crazy pressure on my mother like 5 min after my father had died to name what funeral home was coming to pick up his body. My father died suddenly and tragically so no one was expecting it and everyone was in shock so my mother just named a random place she knew and that’s how we got stuck with the funeral home. You can transfer a body to another place after that but it will cost$$$$$.

We went with cremation, the cheapest “casket” (because the body is put in a wooden casket for the cremation and didn’t have a service or viewing for the public at the funeral home. What was required were: fees for transportation and storage, preparation of body (they put clothes on them), a private viewing/ID once they’ve been redressed and in clothes so you confirm that’s who it should be, getting a death certificate and only then can they do the cremation, and then an urn. Took 10 days for us. Total was around $8,000. I have since been told if you have a cremation society involved from the very beginning it can be less than half. [/quote]

My MIL was just cremated through a funeral home.  There was no casket or clothes or private viewing.  Maybe because she died at home so there was no question who it was?[/quote]

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