FUNERALS DON'T HAVE TO COST SO MUCH!
COMPARE PRICES STATEWIDE AT-A-GLANCE
Funeral Consumers Alliance of Utah is a volunteer-run educational charity, advocating your right to choose simple, meaningful, affordable after-death arrangements.
We've been seeing charges of, between $250 - $950, for a funeral home to "engage" with you, or "arrange" a funeral with you... on top of the Basic Non-declineable Fee they already charge EVERY customer for those very things! So, for now our recommendation is that potential customers refrain from going in-person to establish a "relationship" (as FH's like to say). Decide on who you want to hire BEFORE you 1) see them in person 2) tell them where the body is.
And if they try to charge you for their sales pitch then report them.
"First Call Pickup" Precaution
Wait until you pick a funeral home before telling them where the body is being held. Read how one funeral home stole a body from a Utah hospital...
2024 National Scam Alert
Some Funeral Homes are adding fees for first call pick up in the night, or from a nursing home or to send a second personnel.... However the price on the GPL for the transfer of remains already includes “personnel, equipment and vehicle”. The FTC Funeral Rule does not allow for a sliding scale of costs for "first call pickup" based on the number of personnel sent or the time or the place of death. The State of NY sent a cease and disist order.
2023 National Scam Alert
Pretenders contact you asking for more money AFTER you have made arrangements with a funeral home but BEFORE the funeral service:
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