. But did you know they’re also insanely expensive? Here’s how the funeral industry makes a fortune off the deaths of our loved ones. Part 1 of 2.
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We can all agree that funerals are the most depressing and least fun kind of party (aside from baby showers). But did you know they’re also insanely expensive? Here’s how the funeral industry makes a fortune off the deaths of our loved ones. Part 1 of 2.
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Sir, this is a mortuary not a rental house.
ReplyBeen saying for decades that the funeral business is out of control. No reason for a coffin to cost over 5-Grand.
ReplyPeople take out funeral insurance policies to “lock-in” their funeral costs while they’re still alive. Which is separate from Life Insurance.
I’m a cadaver donner. Cost $0.
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ReplyPlease stop signing off with “Aw, thank you watching” It sounds pitying and infantilizing at the same time.
ReplyMost states allow you to have an in-home wake and funeral, it’s much cheaper!
Covid didn’t allow for a funeral or wake for my father but he had a direct cremation which was all inclusive and cost $1,800 which wasn’t bad at all! He wouldn’t have wanted anything fancy anyway.
Instead we spent the money we saved on a covid conscious party in celebration of his life.
ReplyAustralia has been known for some time to have quite a high comparative cost of living (and I would have assumed, dying too). Yet when my mother died five years ago, her funeral cost $7, 000AUD in total. She didn’t want anything extravagant, yet I did not stint her anything either.
ReplyAmerica, what’s going on?
Wow! $2,250 for renting a casket for just one day!? Is that casket made of pure gold or something?
ReplyOne of the biggest problems with the funeral industry is That SCI Monopolizes over it here in the USA Look it UP
ReplyI was going to train to he a funeral director or embalmer. Im so glad i didnt. I now work in a mortuary/morgue and perforn autopsies. I much prefer the job i have. I dont have to sell to grieving people.
ReplyI dont live in america, so im not sure of their laws, but i know that where i live, you can use a casket you build yourself, even a pine box. It just needs handles and a lining inside the casket. You can get the person cremated, just need to also pay for the paperwork fee on top. I know of a family who had someone cremated and they picked them up from the mortuary, and the total cost of the whole funeral was like $1000. That is still a lot, but a lot cheaper than my brother. He died suddenly and my parents ended up spending roughly $12,000. I dont know if that cost included the headstone. They also bought the plot next to him as he was buried, and their plot is a double depth plot. I told them i dont want to be embalmed because its cheaper to keep me in a cooled down room out of the sun, with a fan and some ice around me (in packets, not just free flowing lol) and you stay fine for a few days. And i want to be cremated. Simple pine box. As cheap as possible.
If you want to save money on a funeral look for a locally owned and operated funeral home, so many are corporate-owned. Also if you are burying the person’s casket or urn then please check into locally owned & operated cemeteries, if possible find a not-for-profit cemetery.
ReplyWhy are funerals expensive? You can’t blame it on the …ahem… *cost of living*
ReplyPlease give a shout out to Caitlin Doughty of Ask a Mortician in your future videos on this subject. Ms. Doughty is a huge resource for these kinds of subjects, and I’m sure she’d be thrilled to let you interview her or pick her brain!
Replywish i could upvote and downvote at the same time, news is good opening joke gets a thumb’s down
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