Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 7, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free october Cost Survey finds vast Price Range Funchal Chapel 357ruedesmeutons i Batesville Ocean Blue Gasket wholesale service total fee diced cremation fee 1 to Holtson Funell chapels 669 Broadway Batesville Faytone casket wholesale Semcer fee total fee direct cremation fee Green acres memorial gardens and funeral Chapel than Canada Highway East Batesville Primrose 18gauge casket wholesale service fee total fee direct cremation fee Chapel Lawn funeral Home and crematorium 4000 Portage Batesville misty Blue casket wholesale service fee total fee direct cremation fee 35 Klassen funeral Chapel 1897 Henderson Batesville Gray tone casket wholesale service fee total fee direct cremation fee Leatherdale Gardiner funeral chapels 232 Kennedy Batesville Gray tone casket Many enter the embalming but few Ever Lay eyes on wholesale service fee total direct cremation fee Cropo funeral chapels 1442 main Batesville Blue Sterling casket wholesale service fee total fee direct cremation fee Bardal funeral Home and crematorium Batesville desert Champagne wholesale service fee total fee direct cremation fee Transcona funeral Chapel 1800 Day refused to break Down Cost of casket versus service fees total fee direct cremation fee Leclaire Brothers funeral products and services 603 Erin owner refused to specify make or Model of casket Over phone service fee Church fee Leclaire does not have facilities to put on total fee direct cremation fee How we did the Survey a free press reporter chose 10 Winnipeg funeral Homes at random and contacted representatives by Telephone posing As the Nephew of a dying using a Survey form provided to the free press by the interfaith funeral information a Phoenix based group that has lobbied internationally for tougher regulations of the funeral a reporter queried local mortuary spokesman on their service fees and the Cost of their lowest priced steel because set vice fees of e not standardized and Cef Tain items included in one Homes fee Are extra at another the service fees listed above have been adjusted to reflect the total Price for the following ser vices transportation of the body to the mortuary document processing not including provincial death embalming and cosmetics transportation of the body to the cemetery evening Visita Tion or service morning service graveside prayers Lead car and family most Homes include visitor others include memorial or thank you cards and some include the costs of these last items Are How and the prices above have not been adjusted to reflect the for direct prices listed Are for removal of mortuary document Prepa crematory charges and whatever minimum cremation Container the Home wholesale prices listed Are from a 1996 Batesville the most popular manufacturer of coffins in North guide distributed to local mortuaries and obtained by the free prices Are listed for the purposes of illustrating the approximate markups funeral Homes attach to their coffin a1997 Price guide was unavailable but Industry sources say this years prices Are approximately 15 per cent above last there has to be a cheaper Way so youve looked at the Bronze casket Complete with silk lining and a Box decided cheap is Nofe important than Post Tif Epe Dic in a Funer you be got a couple of options you East donate yourself to the University of Manitoba department of according to Garry be Gist at of the funeral Manning and memorial society of the University will pick up your use it for study and then ultimately cremate at the University but youll have to Register with its Anatomy department while youre still around because a Legal waiver is the forms Are also available through Sowas you can have direct cremation in this your body is picked up and taken to the crematorium where it is cremated and the ashes placed in a temporary there Are no no fancy no funeral the upside is Sev eral places in town will perform the whole thing for under plus you can have your survivors Bury this is a Little Dulcy and youd better be sure you get the paper work in order first but vials say it still is officials say As Long As you have a death certificate signed by a doctor and a burial available from the theres nothing stopping you from building your own coffin and carting the recently departed off in the family station but youd better be careful about where you Bury that using a backyard in the City of for would contravene local Zon ing but it is still possible in some Rural areas to Bury grandma under the old Oak Check with the municipality and one final note about that the 1996 coffin catalogue distributed to local mortuaries by Batesville the most popular coffin manufacturer in North America says the most expensive coffin it sold to funeral Homes locally last year Cost just tue a taif b of n crazy Canuck to chairman of strategy 6e attest coins l 5k1 federation meetings lit Austria by Samuel Symn Davy suit with vents tilt Ord press Smirt 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