While COVID-19 reminds the most vulnerable of our population of the need for funeral planning, safety concerns may preclude following advice given by both the Death Care industry and the Federal Trade Commission: visit multiple funeral homes and request their general price lists. The FTC mandated ‘general price list’ provides an itemized description of the
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Competing Mortuaries and Cemeteries: when everyone loses
By Bill Stalter on
Posted in Cemeteries
Mortuary Management recently ran a short editorial criticizing cemeteries, stating “we can only conclude that cemeteries will, in the long run, be the losers”, and “it may be time for a reevaluation of standards and staunch principles of the past”. The editorial is nothing more than a handful of comments from anonymous funeral directors about…
KC Funeral Consumer Alliance: Cemetery Survey
By Bill Stalter on
The funeral industry may grumble about the FTC’s Funeral Rule, but two disclosures required by that law play important roles in the preneed transaction. The general price list is often used by funeral homes as a tool for comparing prices with the competition. And when a prearranged funeral is performed, the statement of goods and services…
A General Price List nightmare?
By Bill Stalter on
Posted in Funeral
The Scarborough Council just announced increases in their funeral, cremation and burial prices. There are going to be nearly 80 different levels of charging Some of the charges depend on whether they involve cremation, burial, the times when funerals take place, the use of the service chapel and scattering the remains and whether the remains…