Funerals are so expensive now?

Question

Can you have the dead brought home and have your own funeral at home?

Answer 1

Yes,after you have the body cremated.

Answer 2

Yes, you can, but would you happen to know the amount of paperwork involved in doing so? Many people do not realize how much paperwork and red tape are generated by a funeral. In most instances, a person who dies must have been pronounced dead by a doctor, a doctor must sign the death certificate. The death certificate has to be filed with the appropriate agency in the city, county or state. Each disposition is different, that is why for the most part, funerals are getting more expensive every year.
I would not allow anyone in my family to undertake burying me without a qualified funeral director to do the necessary tasks involved due to the fact that not many people I know are capable of doing them.
If the cost is bothersome, thank the various governmental agencies that implemented the funeral rule upon the funeral service industry whereby the families are charged for each item and package deals are illegal.
Lastly, everyone wants to be paid for their work, funeral directors included. A funeral service pracitioner attends schooling and is licensed just as are other professions and they deserve to be paid for what they do. I cannot imagine wanting a new car and not wanting to pay for it, I cannot build my own car so I must leave that to the manufacturers that know how.
People do not know everything involved in the funeral bill. Think about your electric bill, would you be willing to pay the high bills involved with a funeral home and not charge accordingly of the families you serve?
Next time you think that the cost of funerals has gone sky high, think about the markup of cars and houses in the past 50 years and compare them to the increase of a funeral bill. When you break down the increase, the cost of a ford pickup truck between 1976 and 2006 has risen over 600 percent, the cost of a funeral has only risen 270 percent. Yet I never see anyone asking, how can I build my own vehicle and avoid buying from a car lot. The housing costs have increased even more than cars. The median house price between 1974 versus 2004 rose a whopping almost 1000 percent. (20000 in 1974 my parents bought a 3 bedroom 2 bath, the same house just sold for 216000 a year ago).
I think the cost of a funeral is very reasonable compared to other items we buy in our society without even batting an eye.

Answer 3

You can have a service anywhere, but thats not what is expensive. The problem with burial expenses is people dont plan ahead. Funeral homes are great at playing upon the grief of relatives to inflate costs. You would no doubt pick a cheaper casket, forego embalming, and pick a more economical service than your sobbing loved ones would, who think you deserve the best.
So the key is plan and prepay your own funeral. You will save a fortune, and drive the funeral home crazy.

Answer 4

There's ways to do it. There's also a movement towards "green" funerals where the person is not embalmed and buried in a biodegradeable coffin in a protected woods. A simple stone marker with their name is all that you see. This has been very popular in Europe and is now starting in the US. I just saw a piece on it on CNN the other day. The preserve is in North Carolina. The cost is about half that of traditional funerals.

Answer 5

I think, and it's just my opinion. If a person is rich, wealthy, or stupid they will spend a large sum of money on a funeral.. I think a person lives, and then they must someday die.. None will get out of this planet alive.. When I die. If i die on the side of the road.. its freaking over.. If my family can't bury me, the State of Oklahoma will not let me stay above ground for long I guarantee. So to make things easy on everyone involved.. I'll pre -pay for a cheap, and I do mean beyond cheap cremation.. as a matter of fact if i die at sea. chuck me into the ocean.. At no cost. I really mean that..Keep the money to pay some bills, or feed the grand kid's..

Answer 6

I will be a cheapy. When I go, I want to be blessed by my parish priest, I want to just be cremated, hubby put me in a tin box from the dime store...take me to my favorite lake spot and spread me over the walking trail to the lake. Then everyone can have a few brewskies and tell some of my crazy stories around the campfire at the lake. No frills here!

Answer 7

Cremation is a much less expensive alternative that many people choose for personal beliefs and to save their family unnecessary expense. With cremation, you may take the ashes and scatter them or keep them wherever you wish.

Answer 8

The law is the reason,they know you have to have a funeral so they can charge any price they want to it's called greed.

Answer 9

You could. You might aloso want to look into a cardboard casket.

Don't laugh. You can do a lot with cardboard nowadays and have it look like a real casket.

I knew of a company in San Francisco that specializes in this.

Answer 10

There are provisions for private burials in some states but at the same time there are regulations and controls that are imposed. You must check with the state wherein you reside to determine what is legal

Answer 11

What if u move and the people who move to ur house come and they wonder y a dead guy is in the back of the garden.