Avoiding the Funeral Home Trap


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What to Know about Burial Insurance
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FUNERAL PLANNING HOMEPAGE

	First Things First
	Funeral Etiquette
	Burial Expense Calculator
	Funeral Preplanning Checklist
	Estate Planning
	Planning a Funeral in a Hurry
	Planning Saves Money and Grief
	Associated Costs

YOUR PERSONAL FUNERAL CONSIDERATIONS

	Funeral Interment
	Writing an Obituary
	Buying a Tombstone
	Casket Costs and Considerations
	Cremation Costs and Considerations
	Planning My Own Funeral
	Discussing Funeral Arrangements with Family
	How To Finance Funeral Expenses
	Green Funerals
	Joint Life Insurance

BURIAL INSURANCE INFORMATION

	Burial Insurance Companies
	What to Know about Burial Insurance
	Avoiding the Funeral Home Trap
	Burial Insurance for Seniors
	Term Life Insurance FAQs
	Some Funeral Homes Exploit Women
	Life Insurance Settlements
	Discount Term Life Insurance
	Medicare/Medicaid or Social Security Coverage
	Final Expense Insurance
	No Physical Life Insurance
	Child Term Life Insurance
	Senior Life Insurance
	More Burial Insurance Links

Burial Expenses Calculator

Most people who are searching online for burial insurance don't realize that funeral insurance is essentially life insurance. A very inexpensive way to obtain quality burial insurance is to get a free life insurance quote.

You will promptly receive a free life insurance quote.

A funeral expense calculator can help you make sense of your funeral costs before you die and it can help you to calculate the expenses for a loved one for whom you may need to plan a funeral.

A funeral expense calculator doesn't add up what it costs to die; it adds up the cost of what a funeral and all of the ritual surrounded dying will cost. And it costs a lot.

Here are a few calculators you can use to get organized:

Professional Services Calculator

Basic services of funeral director and staff

Embalming

Other preparations for the body

Facilities and staff services

Cemetery and Grave Markers

Transportation services

Transfer remains to funeral home

Viewing and ceremony

Limousine/Hearse

Merchandise

Casket / Cremation Urn

Burial / Urn Vault / Liner

Monument / Memorial / Tombstone

Other expenses burial clothing

Floral arrangements

Food

Airfare and accommodations

Other

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Available Funds Calculator

PREPAID COSTS

Prepaid funeral costs

Prepaid vault or grave liner

Prepaid burial plot

Prepaid cremation

DEATH BENEFIT FUNDS

Auto club insurance

Canada Pension Plan

Employee benefits

Fraternal organization benefits

Life insurance benefits

Social Security (U.S.)

Totten Trust (U.S.)

Union benefits

Veteran's benefits

Workers' Compensation

Other death benefit funds

OTHER SOURCES FUNDS

Checking account

Savings account

Other funds

Be sure you set the maximum amount you want to spend!

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Estimate Your Costs

FUNERAL COSTS

Casket

Facilities and vehicle

Professional services

Other costs

BURIAL COSTS

Grave plot, crypt, or columbarium niche

Memorial or marker

Opening and closing the grave

Perpetual care

Vault or grave liner

Other costs

ADDITIONAL EXPENSES

Flowers

Food and drink for visitors in the home

Long distance calls or faxes

Memorial stone, including inscription

Musicians' fees

Obituary (if placed by you)

Perpetual care costs

Special requests

Thank you or Acknowledgment Notice

Other costs

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Another handy calculator can be found HERE. Or you could just go to your regular calculator and add up the expenses you see on the funeral home bill. Just saying.