The USA is becoming a Nation of Cremations
It is not an organization. It is simply the folks choosing cremation in the USA. The United States is now the Cremation nation. Folks are choosing cremation all over this land. This trend will continue faster than estimated.
It is in in the interest of those giving out these numbers to report a slow rise in cremation. Funeral Associations and Casket Companies have a reason to report low cremation rates. Yet they are showing us larger and larger cremation numbers.
With that in mind the NUMBERS are overwhelming. According to
1. Nevada – 69.93%
2. Washington – 69.21%
3. Oregon – 66.62%
4. Hawaii – 66.53%
5. Arizona – 63.53%
6. Montana – 60.78
7. District of Columbia – 59.97
8. Vermont – 59.71%
9. Colorado – 59.57%
10. Maine – 58.44
1972 “less than 5 percent of the dead were cremated — and all but unheard of in the South”
1982 “Even a decade later, not quite 12 percent of deaths in America resulted in cremation.”
1985 “The percentage of deaths in the United States resulting in cremation rose from 14.9 in 1985 to…”
2006 “..33.6 in 2006, according to a report released last year by the Chicago-based Cremation Association of North America (CANA).”
2009 “If current trends persist, the group says, the cremation rate will be 39 percent by next year.”(2010)
Save money, the Average Cost of a funeral according to the National Funeral Directors Association was $7.323.00 Dollars in 2007. I have predicted the average cost of a Funeral in 2009 to be $8,500.00 usd in 2009. With a little shopping around one should be able to do a cremation for under $1.000 USD. That includes the ceremony but not a burial.
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