Funeral Items Explained

Funeral Home Basic Services

Cost range: $2,000 to $2,500
Arrangement conference with family and responsible parties
Arrangement of funeral, cremation, burial and visitation details
Preparation, filing and obtaining the death certificate and other
necessary authorizations and permits
Recording vital statistics for government records
Preparation and placement of the obituary, funeral and news notices
Filing and obtaining other forms and claims
Coordination of service plans with cemetery, crematory, vault companies, florist, clergy, musicians, etc.
Overhead expenses related to use of funeral home facilities such as sheltering of remains, professional licensing, legal and accounting fees, insurance, building and utility expenses, parking lot and grounds maintenance, taxes, equipment, furnishings, inventory costs, recordkeeping and secretarial and administrative expenses

Embalming

Embalming is not required by law, but it is necessary if there is a viewing. To avoid the embalming fee, choose direct cremation or immediate burial.
Cost range: $650 to $800

Other Preparation of Remains

With viewing: bathing of remains, dressing, cosmetology, hairdressing and casketing: $350
Without viewing: dressing and casketing of remains: $175
Extensive cosmetic restoration, per hour: $100
Refrigeration of remains: $80/day
Extended sheltering of unembalmed remains after 7 days: $80/day
Extended sheltering of casketed, embalmed remains: $10/day

Use of Facilities, Staff and Equipment

Funeral or memorial ceremony at the funeral home: $525
Visitation, viewing, or memorial gathering: $600/day
Cremation: $275
Witnessing cremation process: $125

Use of Staff and Equipment

Funeral or memorial ceremony at another facility: $525
Visitation, viewing or memorial gathering at another facility: $595/day
Graveside or cemetery chapel committal ceremony only : $350
Licensed Funeral Director to witness urn interment only: $200
Additional staff charge for funeral or memorial on a holiday: $500
Additional staff charge for out-of-town burial/ceremony : $525

Burial and Cremation Merchandise

Caskets: $995 to $10,280
Outer burial containers, vaults: $995 to $15,000
Rental caskets for ceremonial use prior to cremation: $895 to $1,395
Alternative cardboard cremation container for cremation: $95
Cremation urns, cremation vaults, memorial jewellery, and keepsakes.

Other Merchandise

Clothing: Dresses and suits: from $150
Flowers: Casket sprays: from $240
Air tray, required by airlines to enclose casket: $250
Combination air tray and shipping container: $350

Personalized Memorial Items

Stationery packages with a guest registry, memorial cards: $75 to $225
Acknowledgement stationery (twenty five): $10 to $20
Memorial/Prayer cards (sixty): $25
Small memorial folders (one hundred): $75
Large service folders with the order of service (one hundred): $150
Memorial DVD presentation with 40 images: $75
Release of 4 doves at the cemetery: $200
Release of 100 balloons at the cemetery: $200
Webcasting: $90

Medical School Donation

Cost estimate: $1,450
Basic services of Funeral Director & staff
Placing newspaper notices and obituaries
Memorial service planning assistance
Unlimited use of our refrigeration facility while eligibility is verified
Transfer of remains to the medical school

Direct Cremation

With cloth-covered corrugated fiberboard casket: $2,090
With cardboard alternative container: $1,795
With the container provided by the client: $1,700
Basic services of funeral director and staff
Assistance with and placing of newspaper notices and obituaries
Memorial service planning assistance
Cremation witnessing
Graveside service, care
Unlimited refrigeration of remains
Transfer of remains to our funeral home and crematory
Crematory charges.

Immediate Burial

Basic services of funeral director and staff
Care of remains
Transfer of remains to funeral home
Hearse to the cemetery
With 20 gauge steel casket: $3,465
With container provided by the client: $2,470