Title: Funeral Costs to Plan For | Saving and Budgeting | US News
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Funeral Costs to Plan For
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Content: Alternatively, bodies can be claimed by the local or state government, which then decide what to do with them. For instance, in Los Angeles, since the 1890s, an annual mass funeral is held for unclaimed bodies. Comparison Shop
Fournier says that you can have someone directly cremated – as in, there is no funeral service – for as little as $450 and possibly as high as $3,000. Direct burial can range from $1,500 to $6,000, according to Fournier, and a traditional funeral cost can range from $2,000 to $10,000. But if you're paying for a variety of services from a funeral home, you should have a breakdown of the exact expenses. " Federal law requires that these packages be listed on every funeral home's price list," Fournier says. " These will include transportation, paperwork, state filing fees, caskets, body preparation, embalming, the cremation cost and so on." She adds that in many states, families are free to act as their own funeral director, buy their own casket online and forgo embalming. But every state has its own laws involving embalming; in many states, the body must be embalmed within 24 hours.