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What You Must Know So Your Family Isn't "Taken"



Whether you are shopping around to find the right funeral home or whether you are trying to fully understand the charges made by just one funeral home, funeral homes are required by law to give you or send you a General Price List either in person, by postal mail, or by email. They must send it to you immediately with no conditions. Many funeral homes have the General Price Lists posted on their Web sites.

On this Web page, I am going to enable you to understand General Price Lists as completely as possible before you decide on any funeral home or funeral plan.

Below are some General Price Lists from funeral homes and funeral service providers you might want to look at.



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Evans and Early Mortuary

Neil O'Donnell & Sons Mortuary

Goff Mortuary

Lindquist Mortuary

Memorial Mortuaries (Memorial Estates)

Russon Brothers Mortuaries

Larkin Mortuary

Jenkins-Soffe

Starks Funeral Parlor

Broomhead Funeral Home

Cannon Mortuary

Berg Mortuary

Holbrook Mortuary

Legacy Funerals & Cremations

Butler_Stumpff

Premier Funeral Services






To make pricing easier for consumers to understand and accept, nearly all funeral homes use PACKAGE pricing for services. A few, such as Memorial Utah (Memorial Estates) don't use package pricing much any longer, but most of the rest do. So you should understand how to add up individual, itemized costs to see if what they are charging is worth paying if there is no package offered. But comparing packages is much easier, since they are "apples to apples" as I explain.

Package plans are nearly the same list of items and services from one funeral home to another, so you are in fact comparing "apples to apples." Only the total cost or price is different from funeral home to funeral home. Packages include everything that most families want to have paid for with a funeral. Optional items, such as limousine, flowers, DVD tributes, printed programs are sometimes included, sometimes offered additionally for extra charges.





Here is a survey of funeral service providers in the Salt Lake area. Services are package offerings without casket:



UPDATED September 31, 2020

And one important point: If you own plots at a facility that has a funeral home, you are not required to use them for your funeral. You can use a more affordable funeral home or funeral service provider. Below is a list of facilities that have both funeral home and cemetery (memorial park):

• Redwood Memorial
• Mountain View Memorial
• Lakeview Memorial
• Lake Hills Memorial
• Wasatch Lawn
• Larkin Sunset Gardens
• Valley View Memorial Park and Funeral Home

Their burial arrangements are expensive enough. If any of the above insist that you use their funeral home and that you will be paying more or will be penalized if you use a funeral home of your choosing, they are breaking the law. And it is in no way "inconvenient" to use your own funeral home. It is done all the time.




The funeral service package prices in my survey all are WITHOUT a casket. But most of those prices are contingent upon your buying a casket through that funeral home. Otherwise, the price for the package of services is higher. This is where many funeral homes can trick you--where they give you a reasonably low price for a package of services but over-charge for the casket. You want both the services package and the casket to total the right price.

A few casket lists you may want to study:

Goff Mortuary

Premier Funeral Services

Walmart

Costco

FINDING CASKET PRICES


Most General Price Lists don't have a casket price list but instead have a "range," which tells you nothing. You need a separate list. Often their casket prices, along with pictures, are on their Web site. The best thing to do first is to decide on your price range and stick to it. Use my casket page or Costco (or some other source) as your reference. Don't buy expensive caskets!



My recommended price range: $995 to $1,995.