When families are looking for ways to spend less on the services for a deceased loved one, many times the cremation cost is much less than the expense of a normal funeral and burial. There are lots of times when someone you care about passes on without abandoning the financial resources to cover what today is just about the exorbitant expense of funeral and burial services.
The added financial burden to the families can often be too much, let alone trying to think of ways to pay for everything while going through their grieving. With funeral expenses skyrocketing often to $10,000 at a minimum, a cremation is often seen as the only way to ease the financial pressure on the family to deal with the loved one's final affairs.
The expense of a cremation is far less than traditional funeral expenses for a few reasons. First, unless the household is planning to have a viewing and funeral service before the cremation, there's less cost as the body does not need to be embalmed and prepared.
Most often those that choose cremation over a traditional funeral service will opt for a direct cremation and also have a memorial service following a cremation process. This can be a least expensive option to a traditional viewing and funeral.
Just about the most expensive purchases for a traditional funeral and burial is the casket. Since the body will be transported to the crematory in a box that is designed to be put in to the cremation oven, there is no expense of a high-priced cremation casket because nobody will probably be viewing the body.
Another obvious savings is the purchase of a grave plot, that may cost up to $15,000 or more depending on your location and/or the cemetery you choose to have your loved on placed in. Those expenses also include the maintenance of the grave following the burial.
Traditional funerals also include expenses such as transporting your body from the funeral home to the place of the funeral service, for instance a church, and transportation to the grave site for interment. Funeral Services are eliminated since you will see no body to move, thereby lowering the cremation cost to something a lot more affordable for the family.
Direct cremation costs can range between $695-$1395 based on your geographical location compared to the many thousands needed to pay for a normal funeral and burial service.
As a result of savings of choosing cremation over a traditional funeral, many families can create a living memorial honoring themselves, which do much to assist in the grieving and healing following the cherished one has been finally laid to rest.
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