What are the minimum and average costs for preparation, funeral and burial?
The least costly service a funeral provider can offer is local pick up and simple cremation or body donation to the State Anatomical Board. Both cost $990 and involve local transfer of the deceased to the facility, death certificate processing and the cremation (or transfer to Denver for anatomical donation). The Anatomical Board decides as to whether or not they’ll accept the body. From there ($850) costs go up based on specific needs that might include anything from viewing of the deceased to newspaper notification to embalming to use of a hearse or limousine to the purchase of certified copies of the death certificate. Goes Funeral Care & Crematory charges (in 2007) for cremation and memorial service/celebration of life can be as much as $2500 and even up to $3000 or more. A ‘traditional’ service, that includes casket, burial vault, body viewing, memorial products, newspaper notification and fees to other participants, without cemetery costs, begins at about $3000 and could climb to
