# What's the cheapest funeral you could have?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 11, 2000, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-cheapest-funeral-you-could-have/10298 "2000-04-11T01:05:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![meara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@meara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meara)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-cheapest-funeral-you-could-have/10298/21 "2000-04-14T02:42:00Z")

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> Originally posted by aha:  
> \*\* Thanks lamerino But I clicked all through that site and never once saw a price list!  
> \*\*

They had them for FL residents at least. Follow [this link](http://www.neptunesociety.com/services/pngpl_fl.html)

Seems pretty damned expensive to me. I’ll go for donation.

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**Author:** ![CoffinMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@CoffinMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoffinMan)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-cheapest-funeral-you-could-have/10298/22 "2017-06-29T23:54:00Z")

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> [@lamerino](#):
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> My brother pre-need subscribed to this group, based on price alone.  
> [http://www.neptunesociety.com/](http://www.neptunesociety.com/)
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> They toss your ashes overboard.
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> (I personally am going to try to give my bones to a medical school, and my bunions to the bait shop.)

Just be advised that Neptune Society is now owned and operated by Service Corp International, the largest funeral conglomerate in the USA which is not known for low costs in any case. Not saying anything bad about it, just that it may not be the least costly option since in Los Angeles it certainly is not.

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**Author:** ![CoffinMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@CoffinMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoffinMan)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-cheapest-funeral-you-could-have/10298/23 "2017-06-29T23:56:00Z")

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> [@aha](#):
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> Aside from cremation I mean…and I am not sure that is the cheapest.

The least costly disposition would be to donate your body to medical science. They will cremate and inter the remains once they are done and at no cost to the family. Your options for personalization, understandably, will be gone however.

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**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-cheapest-funeral-you-could-have/10298/24 "2017-06-29T23:57:07Z")

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> [@CoffinMan](#):
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> The least costly disposition would be to donate your body to medical science. They will cremate and inter the remains once they are done and at no cost to the family. Your options for personalization, understandably, will be gone however.

As you have now been told in another thread and in PM, knock off reviving the old threads.

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