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Question: Why buy a casket from a casket store, and how does this work?
Answer: To save money - a lot of it. And the merchandise is delivered to a funeral home or the address of your choice. The casket is often the single most expensive part of a traditional funeral. Why pay a big price tag, when you can get a casket identical to those offered at a funeral home for far less??
Question: Why are there such huge amounts that vary in the cost of the funeral service and supplies?
Answer: There are three large conglomerates that have purchased a lot of independently owned funeral homes. (Service Corporation, Stewart Enterprises, and Carriage Services.) Yet they have not changed the name of the firm, nor passed on the savings of large group buying power onto their customers. In fact, they have instead, raised the costs of all of the burials in all of their holdings. Ask if the funeral home you are thinking of doing business with is family owned or not. It really makes a difference in knowing, so when you shop, you can avoid those firms and save, by not shopping at the higher priced firms.
Question: How will I know if I will need an oversized casket?
Answer: Simply measure the person at their widest point to tell if they will need an oversized casket or not. Our normal caskets have an inside width of 23.5 inches and are 79” long (6 foot 7 inches). Normal guys that are 6 foot tall and 240 pounds can easily fit in a normal casket. The two people in our office that are 25 inches wide and require the oversized casket are: Lady 5 foot 3 inches and 330 pounds and a man 6 foot 3 inches and 300 pounds; both fit in the oversized casket. As a funeral home said, if the guy is over 6 feet 7 inches tall, they make him fit, so height is not a problem. The oversized caskets are 27.5” wide inside. If the person is wider than 27.5”, then they will not fit in our caskets. Often the funeral director will say that they need a 28” casket, that is because theirs are normally 24” or 28” wide, so usually the person will fit in ours if they need a 28” casket. Ask how wide the person is.
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