Only in America?
Scheduling a funeral for a loved one is not easy, especially when you can’t afford one. That’s the situation the family of Clementina Michelle Hagin, 34, found themselves in after her death Thursday. On Saturday afternoon, Lynn Sims, Hagin’s pastor at Life Changing Outreach Ministries off Martintown Road in North Augusta, organized a car wash […]
Anything in it?
Perhaps the most important recent consumer information to reach the public domain was the SAIF IPSOS-Mori price comparison survey (26 Feb 2010) which showed that “Average funeral directors’ charges are highest for Dignity funeral directors and lowest for independents. Co-operative Funeralcare branches fall between the two.” SAIF wouldn’t share these results with the Good Funeral […]
Chasing the money
Sometimes a google goosechase can take you to interesting places. Where did I start? I wanted to find out the current average price of a simple funeral. I found a Guardian article which concluded with a tranche of good advice from Anne Wadey, author of the Which? publication What To Do When Someone Dies. Which?, […]
