When a person is cremated, what happens to the casket they were layed out in at the wake...?

Question

Is it rented just for the wake or is it sold back to the funeral home?

How much does it cost for the cremation?

Answer 1

like anything else, cost will vary, depending on what bells and whistles you want included in the funeral. costs can be anywhere from a couple thousand to several thousand dollars. Everything is extra: flower cars, family car, number of days for viewing. transport to church (?), temple, whatever. .. transport to cemetery(?) urns go from $25.00 to several hundred. did you want the urn stored somewhere? put it on your bookshelf at home? scatter the ashes?
some of the better mortuaries will now let you rent a casket, but this costs several hundred dollars also, but still cheaper than buying. rent is so high because most states that allow rentals have a law that says all of the interior linings must be removed and replaced with new lining before the next body can be placed in the casket. (guess they do not want the new renter to catch any diseases before his/her cremation)
the states which do not allow rental, the casket is sometimes burned at the crematorium, and sometimes ( I know, this is gross) is either sold on the black market or taken to a scrap metal yard.

Answer 2

The casket is usually rented or provided by the funeral home. Cremation costs are totally dependent upon the service provider and can vary widely within the same city and definitely in different locales.

If you are really interested in determining the costs in your area, call several funeral homes. Not all do their own cremations but rather take the deceased to a crematorium with which they do business.

Answer 3

The honest truth is the casket can either be rented (and most of the time the interior is not changed...any stains just covered up.....not right but they do it) as far as if you buy the casket the body is just usually removed and the casket sold again (Again immoral but done)

My experience in the funeral trade has been totally negative..Lots of shysters few good ones.

Answer 4

A lot of the time, the casket is rented.

Cremations cost between $900 - $2000
Urns cost from $95 up to whatever you care to spend

Answer 5

Well, here in Belgium a cheap one is a cremation:
cheapest is about 200 Euro: coffin all metal is removed of the coffin and ashes are trow out at the grass at cementary, no flowers included, no reading or church included in this price.

Other expensive caskets/coufins not get re-used here in Belgium.

Answer 6

If when organizing the wake, you went and selected a casket and paid for it, they will burn the casket with the person's remains. I have not heard of rented caskets. Think about another's loved one being laid out in a 'used' casket. Loved ones put a premium on good presentation at a wake, hence all caskets to my knowledge are bought and in rare cases donated, but all are burned. A dignified cremation would be impossible if you had to lift a dead body out of the casket and what...toss it into the oven?

Cremation is cheaper than burial for obvious reasons, but they run about $5000 on average depending on what part of the country you are in.

Answer 7

Well, if the show "Six Feet Under" was right, you can't rent a casket, at least not in California. If this is true in all 50 states, then I would guess they burn the casket with the body.

Answer 8

Its a rental.. And next time you go rent a tux.. Just think that dead person could of been in that tux, before they cremated him..

Though I do not know how much cremation cost.. I would guess a couple thousand by the time everything is done with..

Answer 9

My mother was cremated and the casket she was in was burned with her.

Answer 10

It is just used for the wake. The funeral home has them available for use when they won't be keeping them.