Funeralocity FAQ

Funeral homes offer a wide variety of services. So to help you look at funeral home prices in an apples to apples comparison, we chose four typical funeral service packages. Of course, you may decide to purchase a slightly different set of services. The four different funeral service types are:

Traditional Full Service Burial: includes funeral home basic service fee, embalming and care of body, a visitation or wake prior to the funeral, a service at either church or funeral home chapel, a funeral procession to the grave site and a committal service prior to the burial. The average cost of a casket is included.

Full Service Cremation: includes a visitation or wake prior to the funeral, a service at either church or funeral home chapel and basic cremation services, which include removal of deceased from the place of death, transfer to the crematory, and cremation services. The average cost of a cremation casket is included. Unless an urn has been purchased separately, the ashes are generally returned to the family in a cardboard box.

Direct Cremation: includes removal of the deceased from the place of death, transfer to the crematory, and cremation services. Some providers may have an additional cost for an alternative cremation container. Unless an urn has been purchased separately, the ashes are generally returned to the family in a cardboard box.

Affordable Burial: Sometimes known as Immediate or Direct Burial, is the burial of a body without embalming, viewing or services. It includes basic services fee and transportation of the body from the place of death to the cemetery. The average cost of a basic casket is included.

All funeral services listed include the services of the funeral home in preparing the deceased and arranging the type of service desired.

No, our service is available at no cost to you.

No problem. It is always your choice to make arrangements or not with a funeral home you select from our site. If you later decide that you do not want to use the funeral home your originally selected, you can return to funeralocity.com to select another funeral home.

Yes. If you click through to request contact with multiple funeral homes, they will each be made aware of your request, and you will be put in touch with all of them.

Cash advance items are third-party charges that a funeral home arranges on your behalf as a courtesy. These typically include flowers, placing an obituary in a local newspaper, memorial cards or program printing, etc. If you choose a cremation from a funeral home that does not have a crematory on site, the fee from the actual crematory may also be a cash advance item.

Funeralocity welcomes reviews of all funeral homes, and other families will benefit from learning about your experience. You may go to funeralocity.com at any time to submit your review on the funeral home’s profile page.

We established the Premier Provider as part of our mission to help families make the best choices for their funeral services.

Our panel reviews funeral providers by examining backgrounds, disciplinary history, service records, reputation, premises, and other quality criteria.

Only the top ten percent of funeral providers in the US qualify for the Premier Provider designation.

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