Why is there such a big difference in the price of funerals? Most of the difference can be attributed to two main factors:
1) The specific arrangements selected.
2) The funeral home employed to provide those arrangements.
FUNERAL PRICES
Click here (PDF) to view prices charged by funeral homes in Monroe County, alphabetical by funeral home.
Click here (PDF) to view prices charged by funeral homes in other counties (Genesee, Livingston, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne and Yates Counties).
All
Plans include the following Basic Goods, Services and Use of
Facilities (BGSF):
• Removing the body from the place of death
• Using the preparation room for embalming and/or casketing
• Filing the death certificate
• Obtaining the burial/transit permit
• Transporting the body to the cemetery or crematory
• Placing a notice in the newspaper (but not the actual cost of the notice)
• Counseling the family regarding death benefits
Six
major types of arrangements with a description of each are listed
below.
You will see a huge range of prices among funeral homes for the same type of funeral. You are invited to use these prices as a "yardstick" to comparison-shop.
Included:
• BGSF using an alternate container.
• Crematory fee
• Returning
the cremated remains to family, if requested.
Not
included:
• Embalming
• Using the funeral home for visitation or service
Included:
• BGSF using an alternate container.
• Providing a cave-proof outer interment receptacle
Not
included:
• Embalming
• Using the funeral home for visitation or service.
Included:
• BGSF using alternative container, plus embalming
• Using the funeral home for visitation (4 hours) and a service
• Crematory fee
Not
included:
• Using a casket instead of an alternate container
(Casket prices vary from about $1,000 to over $40,000)
• Clothing, hairdressing
Included:
• BGSF using alternative container, plus embalming
• Using the funeral home for visitation (4 hours) and a service
• Cave-proof outer interment receptacle
Not included:
• Using a casket instead of an alternate container
(Casket prices vary from about $1,000 to over $40,000)
• Clothing, hairdressing, hearse, limousine, motorcycle escort
If death occurs in a hospital or nursing home within Monroe County. No charge.
Included:
• Transportation of the body to the Medical Center by a funeral director on their staff
• Death certificate and other necessary paperwork
• Cremation of remains, and burial or return of ashes, per request of family
If death occurs in a private home or outside of Monroe County: $600 - $2,300
Included:
• Private funeral home's BGSF
• Transfer of remains to Medical Center
• Cremation of remains, and burial or return of ashes, per request of family
Not included:
Additional charges for mileage beyond a certain radius specified by funeral home
Note: The donor must be registered with the URMC's Anatomical Gift Program, and some potential donors may not meet the eligibility requirements. To register or learn more about disqualifying circumstances, call the AGP at (585) 275-2592.
When planning funeral arrangements, keep in mind that, in addition to the figures shown above, there will be cemetery costs and miscellaneous charges that may significantly alter the total expense.
CEMETERY Costs
Click here (PDF) to view prices charged by some Rochester area cemeteries.
A wide range of prices is given for cemetery lots: the higher prices are generally for city or suburban cemeteries; the lower prices are for rural cemeteries.
Approximate costs for some of these additional items are:
1) Cemetery plot (single) - $700 to $3,000
2) Cemetery plot (double) - $1,400 to $6,000
3) Green Burial Plot (single) - $2,000 to $3,000
4) Interment of casket* - $550 to $1,200
5) Marker or headstone - $500 and up
6) Crypt in mausoleum (single) - $2,750 to $12,100
7) Columbarium niche (single) - $1,100 to $5,900
8) Cemetery plot for cremated remains - $500 to $3,000
9) Interment of cremated remains - $400 to $1,000
10) Urn - $50 and up
11) Certified copies of death certificate - $30 each
12) Honorarium for clergy - $150 and up
13) Newspaper death notice - Depends on newspaper
* Required for earth burial
For more information visit the National FCA’s website at www.funerals.org