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Southern Illinois University Carbondale

2017

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Are Funeral Homes Nickel And Diming The Consumer To Death?, Anthony Fleege, Brian R. Powell Nov 2017

Are Funeral Homes Nickel And Diming The Consumer To Death?, Anthony Fleege, Brian R. Powell

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

Funeral prices vary greatly across the United States. Even in the same community prices can vary by hundreds or thousands of dollars for the same services. Based on existing data and from surveying funeral homes in all fifty states, we are trying to determine if the public is getting nickel and dimed to death by unnecessary or over -inflated prices.