How different are the prices among cemeteries and funeral homes?
A few years ago an man called me and wanted to know if I knew of someone who could set a monument for him? I asked him why he didn’t just get the cemetery to install it. He said, “Ken, I lost my son six months ago. I had already spent a fortune on the funeral service casket and cemetery property. Ken, they wanted $41,000 for a monument to my son. It was very nice and elaborate, but it seemed high. I was in Chicago a few months ago and saw the same monument for $7000. I had it made, shipped here, and now the cemetery will not install it.” I referred him to a monument company who installed it for less than $1000. He saved over $30,000 because he shopped around. Incidentally, he had already spent over $55,000 on the funeral and cemetery property. He would have spent over $82,000. “Ken, I don’t even want to know what you could have gotten the funeral service for. I just can’t handle knowing.” It would have been less than half of the $55,000. Shop around and when you are finished, call Ken
