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Originally Posted by Renatus
Hmm, I wonder does gnet have an official mortician? Could you provide some info on how your work goes (ie: do you and your husband run your own funeral home or work for another one, do you have a website, do you deal with coffin sales and how much do you sell them for). Heh sorry if I'm a bit intrusive I've had few chances to get questions answered and a long running curiosity on the subject ever since I was a little kid at my grandmother's funeral in a side room after I had discovered a fridge full of orange soda (my favorite at the time), I never did find out why it was there and if it was ok for me to drink it (though I drank it anyways and I doubt people would get angry at a 6 year old for doing so), among other things. Welcome
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I'm sure that was what the orange soda was for
My husband works for a funeral home and I no longer work in the funeral industry. When I did, the place I worked at was 50 miles away from his. Now I just have a fancy piece of paper that says I'm allowed to embalm people and make funeral arrangements if I wanted to.
I used to want to own a funeral home, but quickly became disenchanted with the whole idea. It takes a huge amount of money to start a funeral home and an insane amount of work (16 hours days, dealing with upset people, going out at all hours of the night to pick up bodies etc)
We don't sell caskets or coffins ourselves. The funeral homes we work(ed) for have selection rooms for those. When people come in to make arrangements they pick one out. They also can pick out flowers, register books, prayer cards, etc. The prices of a casket (in the United States) range from around $500 (for a plain wooden cremation box) to $35,000 for a bronze full couch(this also can vary depending on where you purchase them). The average casket seems to be around $2K.
Honestly I think most of the caskets that funeral homes in the US sell are pretty boring looking. In Europe, coffins are more prevalent and they are GORGEOUS. I don't know what they go for though.
Anyone COULD sell caskets online, you don't need to be a mortician to do that and there are a lot of discount sites out there (Funeral homes dislike them though).
Hope I've answered some of your questions. Feel free to ask more anytime.