The average cost of a funeral is on a decline according to the Seattle Times.
The average cost of a funeral in Washington State is heading South- Cremations, and lower cost options are on the rise . In Washington State cremations out number burials 2 to 1. Just like other locations around the Country in the Seattle area the average cost of a Funeral is declining. A report in the Seattle Times states:
“Amid an ongoing recession, those in the funeral industry say cost-conscious consumers are facing similar decisions when honoring loved ones — price-checking, skipping limos in favor of personal vehicles and forgoing discretionary items such as catering, extravagant flowers or long obituary notices. Receptions and even services are being held in community centers, or at home.
“A lot of times they’re having a memorial service with an urn of ashes and some pictures, and they do not need a funeral procession to put it on a mantel or a bookshelf in somebody’s home’”says the owner of a motor cycle funeral procession escort service.”
Newsweek recently quoted Craig Barton the founder of Barton Family Funeral Service as saying:
‘”People have come to believe that spending a lot of money is the only way to do it because that’s what the funeral industry has told them.”
Barton’s Service in the Seattle Area services seves an average of 140 folks a month while the average number of people served at traditional funeral home is 100 per year in the USA.
Some folks are turning to doing the flowers themselves and even combining on line obituaries with smaller ones in the
A low cost funeral home can do 140 Funerals a month, the average traditional funeral home does 100 funerals a year.
newspaper. I have declared the average cost of a funeral in 2009 to be $8,500.00 per year- It is trending downward due to the economy and the rise in cremations.
All sorts of low cost funeral options are available in the funeral book: “Rest in Peace: Insiders Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral”. The Funeral Costs Book is reasonably priced at $12.95, and available at Amazon.com.
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It should be no noted that the local Service Corporation International official in Seattle said she saw “no change” in Funerals although national reports show a huge decline for this corporation.
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