Never Pay Retail for a Funeral
Never pay retail for a funeral. Retail these days costs over $7,000.
Hold the funeral in your church or the deceased relative's church. Don't pay a funeral home.
If you don't belong to a church, rent a sanctuary on a Saturday afternoon.
Do not buy a casket from a funeral home. Shop for a casket. Better yet, have an emotionally uninvolved deacon shop for it. Start looking at Costco. Try to keep the price below $1,000.
Don't embalm the body. Have a closed-casket funeral.
Shop for a grave site now or when the relative seems terminal. Negotiate, or have a deacon negotiate. I plan to be buried in my church's graveyard. It has been there since 1850.
Read my article, "Dirt-Cheap Funerals." https://www.garynorth.com/public/14335.cfm
Here are other tips. https://www.garynorth.com/snip/1369.htm