Why are funerals so expensive?

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asked Jul 22, 2017 in Other-Home/Garden by Judy (56,120 points)
Why are funeral so expensive today? A friends Grandma died last week and her Grandma didn't have any life insurance.
My friend had to take out a personal loan just to pay for her Grandmas funeral. The funeral cost $12,000.00

Why does it cost so much to have a funeral?

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answered Jul 22, 2017 by Hippo32 (180 points)
Funerals are so expensive because the funeral homes can get away with charging those prices. They realize that people may not know about other burial options and will have to pay the funeral home to do the funeral.

In fact you don't need to use a funeral home at all. You can do natural burial where your just buried in a shroud.

It's much cheaper.

You can also transport a body yourself by getting a permit to transport the body and save money that way.

You don't need embalming and a fancy coffin. It's better for your body to decompose naturally like it's supposed to do.

There's no reason to preserve a dead body. You'll likely never dig them up again and look at them anyway.

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