Presenter/Author Type

Faculty

Department or Field of Research

Mortuary Science and Funeral Service

Submission type

Poster Proposal (Students Only)

Disciplines

Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics

Keywords

Funeral General Price List

Brief Description

Funeral prices vary greatly across the United States. Even in the same community prices can vary by hundreds or thousands of dollars for the same services. Based on existing data and from surveying funeral homes in all fifty states, we are trying to determine if the public is getting nickel and dimed to death by unnecessary or over -inflated prices.

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This is a poster presentation by a faculty with a student undergraduate assistant.

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Are funeral homes nickel and diming the consumer to death?

Funeral prices vary greatly across the United States. Even in the same community prices can vary by hundreds or thousands of dollars for the same services. Based on existing data and from surveying funeral homes in all fifty states, we are trying to determine if the public is getting nickel and dimed to death by unnecessary or over -inflated prices.