Washington Post Says Funeral Cost Down Everywhere
In February the Washington Post stated that folks are choosing the lower cost funeral everywhere. The average cost of a funeral is going down.Even the affluent suburb of Washington DC where your funeral guy used to work is reporting Lower Cost Funerals.
Quoting the owner of Fairfax Memorial Funeral Home, The Washington Post reported in an article.
“Some families are just spending the least amount they can when a family member dies,” said Michael H. Doherty, who runs Fairfax Memorial, a family-owned funeral home and cemetery. “People really watch what’s being spent on funerals.”
In relatively affluent Fairfax, cost-cutting at the time of death has been less pronounced, but the tradition of planning a funeral in advance has fallen victim to economic pressures.
“We have seen that drop way off,” Doherty said. “People are afraid to spend money.”
Fairfax Memorial Park is quite a beautiful cemetery.
The affluent suburb of Fairfax, VA shows a drop in people paying for and pre-planning a funeral. Other Sources have revealed this in their Corporate Reports. Both Service Corporation International and Stewart Enterprises Inc reported a drop in Preneed Sales. Both SCI and STEI have several high end Funeral Homes in the Greater Washington DC area near Fairfax, in Northern Virginia.
Even the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) says that the lower cost funeral is dominant. The article quote from the NFDA treasurer is here.
“There’s a myth that funeral directors are recession-proof,” said Pat Lynch, a suburban Detroit undertaker who is treasurer of the National Funeral Directors Association. “In good times, someone might say, ‘We’ll spend $10,000
Fragile Economy bringing the Average Cost of a Funeral Down
on this funeral,’ but not these days, when many people are in a tremendous financial crunch.”
I have declared the average cost of a funeral in 2009 to be $8,500+ USD. It is trending downward due to tough economic times.
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