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Cost of funeral

Jayisplay

I just want to find out roughly the cost of a funeral in Dublin, my father passed away a few weeks ago in a nursing home from covid 19. Today we received the funeral bill and could not believe the price €8200. My mother died 2 and a half years ago. The difference being her funeral had a few funeral cars for the family, a mass in a church, music in the church, a book of condolences, embalming of her body and her name in the herald. My father had none of these just 10 family members at the grave for burial. And to add they both had the exact same coffin. Me and my sister's are very angry at this as my father did not get a proper send off yet we are been charged all this money. Forgot to mention my mother's cosymt €6900

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olestoepoke

Natural burial grounds in Wexford cost around 950 for the plot, 200 for the hole to be dug and a cheap biodegradable cardboard coffin. Thats me in the hole for less than 1,500. Funerals are a rip off, they take advantage of a really tough time for a lot of people. I am not religious and would rather my family kept the 6k difference so it's down to wexford for me in the back of a van.

salmocab

Trampas wrote: »

Sorry for your lost OP. Why would they be half price? I cremated my father last week and bill was €6000 give or take a few quid

My father in law was cremated a few weeks back and it cost 6000 too, although no mourning cars were done for covid related reasons.

Trampas

costacorta wrote: »

Firstly sorry for your loss also and reason I was thinking they be half the normal price is funerals are usually a 3 day or sometime 4?days work for undertakers from death to burial . Lately it’s burial day after death and no embalming, cleaning of body etc if Covid related .?. No use of funeral home for removal , no choir , sarcrasent or mass singers to pay . So I’d be disappointed if a funeral today that usually cost 8k would be more than 5k so maybe half was a bit much to be thinking..

Thanks. Undertakers only take over after the coroner has released the body. Then it would be normally get the body ready for next day usually and funeral next day. Only difference been embalming and getting ready for display. Other stuff is all extras on the bill. Remember the funeral home have extra costs now with buying protected clothing also to handle the body. So probably covers the cost of the stuff you don’t get so instead or changing prices they just charge same. Might make a few extra more but wouldn’t be making thousands

Church costs doesn’t cost that much and they’d be all marked down as extra costs.

costacorta

Trampas wrote: »

Sorry for your lost OP. Why would they be half price? I cremated my father last week and bill was €6000 give or take a few quid

Firstly sorry for your loss also and reason I was thinking they be half the normal price is funerals are usually a 3 day or sometime 4?days work for undertakers from death to burial . Lately it’s burial day after death and no embalming, cleaning of body etc if Covid related .?. No use of funeral home for removal , no choir , sarcrasent or mass singers to pay . So I’d be disappointed if a funeral today that usually cost 8k would be more than 5k so maybe half was a bit much to be thinking..

Trampas

costacorta wrote: »

I was actually asking this question during week and thinking funerals should be half the price today that they were we say 2 months ago .. in cork out the county and our average funeral cost would be €8000 and that’s owning a grave . I know this as seen bill for my aunts funeral last September..

Sorry for your lost OP. Why would they be half price? I cremated my father last week and bill was €6000 give or take a few quid

costacorta

Metroid diorteM wrote: »

Where is the competition in this service? Who the eff has 8k to spare for anything?

And if you need to buy a grave add another €1000 min to €1800 on top of that plus I see a lot of funerals nowadays come with being invited back fora meal afterwards so that would bring funeral bill to 15k ..

Metroid diorteM

Where is the competition in this service? Who the eff has 8k to spare for anything?

99nsr125

costacorta wrote: »

From my little experience I think all funeral bills come itemised .

As uncomfortable as it is I would really appreciate if someone could send me an itemized bill.

costacorta

Addle wrote: »

Condolences OP.

Are your parents buried in the same plot?
I’d ask the undertaker for an itemized bill.

From my little experience I think all funeral bills come itemised .

Jayisplay

Purgative wrote: »

Sorry for your loss Jayisplay. Stay safe and be kind to yourself.

Thank you , what makes it harder was not getting to say goodbye

Jayisplay

Mumm_ra wrote: »

Not really all good - in times of grieve some don't challenge. If you didn't have a benchmark would you have questioned it? I'd ask how the mistake happened.

Suppose so , if I didn’t have the bill from my mothers funeral we probably wouldn’t have been none the wiser.

costacorta

I was actually asking this question during week and thinking funerals should be half the price today that they were we say 2 months ago .. in cork out the county and our average funeral cost would be €8000 and that’s owning a grave . I know this as seen bill for my aunts funeral last September..

Purgative

Sorry for your loss Jayisplay. Stay safe and be kind to yourself.

Tork

Looking at this article from a few years ago https://www.thejournal.ie/funeral-costs-3036012-Oct2016/ , it would suggest that this shower of undertakers are doing very nicely for themselves. Prices can't have gone up that much in the meantime.

Mumm_ra

Not really all good - in times of grieve some don't challenge. If you didn't have a benchmark would you have questioned it? I'd ask how the mistake happened.

Jayisplay

It was actually eating at me so I just rang them today and they said it was a mistake , that no way was it that price so all is good thanks.

Addle

Condolences OP.

Are your parents buried in the same plot?
I’d ask the undertaker for an itemized bill.