Depending on what you want done with your remains it can be free to thousands of dollars. If you really have no care what happens to you donate to science. If you care a little donate your body to be used as parts than cremate the rest or bury it. If you don't want to be persevered you don't have to be. You can say not to be. But your funeral will have to happen quickly. Or just have your body cremated and have a small funeral with your ashes. Which is what we did with my grandmother and Dad both were claustrophobic and didn't want to be buried. We spent the money on paying medical bills and cremation. We had a small funeral at my parents home with just family and loved ones.
You don't have to have a big church funeral and a million dollar casket. Infact so e funeral homes take pity on those that are poor and will display the body in a nice casket but when it is time to bury the body they switch to a pine box coffin. Which was done for a GreatUncle of mine.
You don't have to have a big church funeral and a million dollar casket. Infact so e funeral homes take pity on those that are poor and will display the body in a nice casket but when it is time to bury the body they switch to a pine box coffin. Which was done for a GreatUncle of mine.