What is cheaper a funeral or a cremation? -

Cremation. It costs somewhere between $800-$1100. A cheap funeral will be about $8k-$10k. Cremations are cheaper. Obvious at at sad time cost seems bad to think about but you have no choice cremation is the cheaper however still cost a lot of money. most cremations are less costly, burial is the higher cost by far. Cremation alone, in an alternative (read: cardboard) container, is available for as little as $470 in my area (Seattle). This kind of program, with a home memorial service, is the cheapest you can go that's legal. Burial, with funeral and casket is *reasonable* at $10,000! Save the $$$ for the peeps who are living, and celebrate you loved one sensibly. Cremation, a big party/remembrance with potluck, and a simple scatter or planting (like under a new tree, in a beloved rose garden, etc) is more to my taste, and definitely in line with my priorities. Cremation is cheaper. My father paid ahead thru the Neptune Society. Paid for the urn too. When he passed, we picked up his ashes, had a real nice party for him and about 150 of his friends at his house. Then after a few months, in hs pre-arranged favorite spot, scattered his ashes in his favorite place with family and a few friends. He always said, spend the money on the living, not on the dead! God, how i miss him! I'd say from experience it would be a cremations creametion is cheaper usually costs 750 or so funerals start at like 2,900plus headstones,plus,plus,plus.been thinking about it myselfthere r different types of crmations that can be arranged instead use the money to go on a cruise and when the ship is in the middle of the Pacific, weigh yourself down and jump in. wot? You question is sort of misleading. A funeral is optional whether you are cremated or not. Many people who are cremated have a funeral first. They are just cremated after the funeral instead of buried. I think the question you are asking is: what is cheaper a direct cremation or a direct burial? The direct cremation is cheaper. I believe a cremation is cheaper, you don't have to buy a coffin or have a plot or pay somebody to dig the hole to put you in. I am definetly being cremated and it has nothing to do with dollars. I just don't want to be put in the ground in any way shape or form. My family willl scatter my ashes, or whats left, because I am also an organ donor, at the beach here in NC. I want them to celebrate my life and have a great big party with my friends and remember how much I enriched their lives and vice versa neither one is cheap by any means,but if it was me i'd say a funeral is high and a cremation is cheaper,just becareful who you let have the job,there are alot of crooks out ther wanting to just make a fast dime at someone else's expsenses. Cremation is funeral. Do you mean to ask burial or cremation? Depends on which part of the world you wish to have final rights performed. well do you plan on having a memorial service at a funeral place after the cemation? Or are you just having the person cremated and then having a private gathering at home? Just getting cremation done is cheaper. but if you add on the memorial service then you add on the $$.