The new Cremation system that uses Alkaline Hydrolysis, is not Rocket Science or Brain Surgery. In essence it is Alkaline +Water+Heat +Pressure.
Snippet from the Bio Safe Engineering brochure.
“Unlike cremation, with Water Resolution(TM) an individual body is gently placed in a standard sanitary, non porous vessel so there is no co-mingling of residual remains. The completley automated process operated by single button, then utilizes a combination of water pressure high temperature and alkalinity, to accelerate tissue hydrolysis.”
Your Funeral Guy is a fan of this water resolution, bio cremation,
Cycled Life Alkaline Hydrolysis Machine
process because it will facilitate a good “Carbon Footprint” and the LOWER COST FUNERAL for Funeral Consumers. The average cost of a green funeral and burial is well above $4,900 dollars The average cost of a traditional Funeral and Burial $12,000 USD. Alkaline Hydrolysis cost to the funeral consumer is currently estimated to be $1.000-$1500 USD for the consumer, but I believe it will be much less than that.
Alkaline Hydrolysis will be the cremation process of the near future.
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Batesville Casket Co. a Division of of Hillenbrand Inc has filed a trade complaint against what it calls knock off Caskets from Mexico. These are lower cost funeral caskets from south of the border.
Batesville Casket Company is trying to stop Lower Cost Casket IMPORTS
Batesville Is the largest Casket company in North America. Batesville has the reputation of selling the most expensive caskets in the land to Funeral Homes across the United States. They sold the Michael Jackson Family a $25,000 Golden Casket for the King of Pop’s funeral almost a year ago. The average American does not need a casket fit for a Pharaoh or even other Batesville Caskets as excellent caskets can be obtained from Walmart, Costco, amazon.com, and other internet sources.
It appears that the latest move by Batesville is an attempt to protect Memory drawers and custom corners on it’s caskets.
Snippet From Business week.
“Hillenbrand Unit Seeks to Block Imports of Knockoff Coffins
Hillenbrand Inc.’s Batesville unit, the largest U.S. maker of coffins, filed a U.S. trade complaint to stop imports of what it deems are knockoff caskets from Mexico.
The complaint, filed yesterday with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington, said Ataudes Aguilares of Guadalajara, Mexico, is bringing caskets into the U.S. that infringe patents related to coffins with attached memorabilia compartments and a mechanism allowing funeral-home directors to swap out ornamental corner pieces.
Batesville said it has four manufacturing plants in the U.S. with about 3,300 workers. Sales of the patented caskets are expected to exceed $130 million this year, according to the complaint. Total sales were $577.1 million last year, or 89 percent of Hillenbrand’s revenue, Bloomberg data show.
The unit wants the trade commission to prevent closely held Ataudes Aguilares from selling its products in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
“Ataudes Aguilares did not develop these caskets on its own,” Batesville said in the complaint. “Instead, in order to compete against Batesville in selling improved caskets, Ataudes Aguilares entered into contracts to import for sale in the United States caskets manufactured by Ataudes Aguilares, but copied from Batesville patent protected caskets.”
The memorabilia compartment is a drawer in which family members put mementos rather than in a box placed haphazardly in the coffin, Batesville said. In September, the unit sued funeral homes in Puerto Rico that received the Ataudes Aguilares caskets. Part of the case was dismissed last month, according to court documents.
The trade commission is a quasi-independent agency that investigates unfair trade practices, including patent infringement, and has the power to prevent products from entering the U.S. It typically completes its investigations within about 15 months of agreeing to consider a complaint”
One the best way to come in under the average cost of a Funeral is to pay later, and avoid Funeral Preneed. The first thing you need to know is that the benefits of Funeral Preneed ” Locking in today’s prices” is a myth. For almost 40 years The US Economy has hummed along, with employment coming back during every Recession.(but not this last one) Now for the first time we have a situation where the market has recovered(until this week) but jobs have not. With Financial unrest around the world and the US Stock Market losing 10% of its value last week., the wisdom of Funeral Pre need (I say it’s dead)is in question once again.
Does not include the cost of the Cemetery!
In General terms the average cost of a funeral is $10, 000 Dollars a year. The average Funeral Home does an average of 100 calls a year and makes about 1 million dollars a year. this is the simplest way to figure average funeral cost.
My last prediction for the average cost of a funeral was $8,300 USD per year.
But it is all very hard to determine because traditional Funeral prices are rising , for those who are choosing cremation the cost of Funerals is going down significantly.
The Wall Street Journal(WSJ) has in a recent Article has stated that preneed, prepaid funerals are a Wealth Killer.
“Some view prepaid plans as an inflation hedge that allows them to lock in today’s prices—about $10,000 on average—for an expense that in recent years has risen faster than the consumer price index. Others take the step simply to spare survivors the burden of arranging and paying for a funeral. Consumer advocates say these plans are most appropriate for people who wish to spend down assets in order to qualify for Medicaid coverage.
About one in four Americans age 50-plus—some 20 million people—have paid in advance for a funeral service, according to AARP. While national figures on the size of those payments are scarce, in Texas alone consumers have contracts worth $3 billion.
Prepaid funeral plans come in two basic varieties. With a so-called guaranteed plan, a funeral home promises that if you pay today’s prices, it will provide the goods and services you purchased, no matter how much prices rise. “Non-guaranteed” plans offer no such protections. But if these accounts appreciate in value, heirs get to keep the gains. (You can prepay today’s full cost or a portion of it, in one lump sum or over time.)
Even guaranteed plans don’t always protect against unexpected bills”via online.wsj.com
The best way to come in under the average cost of a funeral is to choose cremation and then shop around for the lowest price of a cremation.PRICE SHOP & COMPARE ASHES TO ASHES.
A couple in California found this to be the best way to do your lower cost funeral, shop
Shopping around for your funeral and cremation can save you money
around for the cremation.
“Sue and I decided a long time ago that big-bucks funerals were a waste of money. We agreed to each be cremated. But even there you need to shop around. I discovered that cremation in Fresno, California can be had for as much as $2,500 and for as little as $795. No real difference in the final product. We are comparing ashes to ashes, here.”via themywifehascancerblog.blogspot.com
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Here is a video on the cremation, felony Body parts Fraud taking lace in both Kansas City and New Mexico. This was a scam conducted by a lower cost funeral provider.
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