Choices to satisfy your needs and pocketbook depend on your knowledge of what is available.
It needs to express love and respect for the deceased, closure for the family, and be filled with lasting good memories, not financial debt for years.
Keep a funeral or memorial service the way it ought to be: a simple business transaction, a purchase of services.
What makes if different from the purchase of a home or vehicle is the speed with which it must be done, the emotion involved, and the lack of knowledge of possibilities.
Take time to talk this matter over. It can be the third most expensive family obligation YOU make, but it need not be.
EDUCATION is our main purpose:
A funeral or memorial service should be what YOU and your family want and can afford.
Funeral Consumers Alliance of Sacramento-NorthernCalifornia offers YOU:
Collection of General Price Lists from the surrounding area
State support through membership in the Funeral Consumers Alliance of California and Hawaii
Federal Trade Commission access through our national Funeral Consumers Alliance, Inc. office
Informative newsletters twice a year
Information about pending State legislation as it pertains to cemeteries, funeral homes, and cremation practices
