Prices
- DIRECT CREMATION – $995
HYDROMATION – $1495
IMMEDIATE BURIAL – $1375
VETERANS’ IMMEDIATE BURIAL WITH CLOSED CASKET & GRAVESIDE SERVICE – $2,691
DIRECT CREMATION
$995
Our Low Cost Includes Everything except State or County Fees
- Removal from place of death at any time, day or night, including weekends.
- Sheltering the remains, including refrigeration at no additional cost.
- Filing the death certificate electronically.
- Arrangement conference(s) with funeral director.
- Online Obituary including photographs.
- Cremation including required containers.
- Return of the cremated remains in a sturdy plastic urn suitable for transportation by air.
- If death occurs in King County, WA, there is a $100 fee charged by the medical examiner.
- The Health Department issues certified death certificates at a cost of $25 each. We help you decide how many you may need, if any.
DEFINITION OF DIRECT CREMATION AS PROVIDED BY THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
The body is cremated shortly after death, without embalming. The cremated remains are placed in an urn or other container. No viewing or visitation is involved, although a memorial service may be held, with or without the cremated remains present. The remains can be kept in the home, buried or placed in a crypt or niche in a cemetery, or buried or scattered in a favorite spot. Direct cremation usually costs less than the “traditional,” full-service funeral. Costs include the funeral home’s basic services fee, as well as transportation and care of the body. A crematory fee may be included or, if the funeral home does not own the crematory, the fee may be added on. There also will be a charge for an urn or other container. The cost of a cemetery plot or crypt is included only if the remains are buried or entombed.
Funeral providers who offer direct cremations also must offer to provide an alternative container that can be used in place of a casket.
Hydromation® (Alkaline Hydrolysis, Biochemical Hydrolysis.)
$1,495
Our Low Cost Includes Everything except State or County Fees
- Removal from place of death at any time, day or night, including weekends.
- Sheltering the remains, including refrigeration at no additional cost.
- Filing the death certificate electronically.
- Arrangement conference(s) with funeral director.
- Online Obituary including photographs.
- Hydromation® .
- Return of the Hydromated remains in a sturdy plastic urn suitable for transportation by air.
- If death occurs in King County, WA, there is a $100 fee charged by the medical examiner.
- The Health Department issues certified death certificates at a cost of $25 each. We help you decide how many you may need, if any.
DEFINITION OF BIOCHEMICAL HYDROLYSIS AS CONTAINED IN THE ENABLING LEGISLATION OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
In 2019, the Washington State Legislature approved alkaline hydrolysis as a method of disposition, effective in May 1, 2020 along with cremation, burial, and natural organic reduction. It is called Alkaline Hydrolysis because the water solution usually contains base reagents that have a low pH.
RCW means the Revised Code of Washington (RCW). It is the compilation of all permanent laws now in force.
RCW 68.04.290
“Alkaline hydrolysis” or “hydrolysis.”
“Alkaline hydrolysis” or “hydrolysis” means the reduction of human remains to bone fragments and essential elements in a licensed hydrolysis facility using heat, pressure, water, and base chemical agents.
RCW 68.04.300
“Hydrolysis facility.”
“Hydrolysis facility” means a structure, room, or other space in a building or structure containing one or more hydrolysis vessels, to be used for alkaline hydrolysis.
RCW 68.50.110
Burial, cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction. Except in cases of dissection provided for in RCW 68.50.100, and where human remains are rightfully carried through or removed from the state for the purpose of burial elsewhere, human remains lying within this state, and the remains of any dissected body, after dissection, must be decently buried, undergo cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction within a reasonable time after death.
Read more about Hydromation and Sustainable methods disposition HERE (link to our Hydromation page)
IMMEDIATE BURIAL
$1,375
One Low Cost Includes Everything except your Choice of a Casket and State or County Fees.
- Removal from place of death at any time, day or night, including weekends.
- Sheltering the remains, including refrigeration at no additional cost.
- Filing the death certificate electronically.
- Arrangement conference(s) with funeral director.
- Online Obituary including photographs.
- Transportation of the remains to the cemetery for burial.
- The charge of $1,375 does not include the use of facilities and staff for any visitation or ceremony, public or private, or the price of the casket, outer burial container, or cemetery costs.
- If death occurs in King County, WA, there is a $100 fee charged by the medical examiner.
- The Health Department issues certified death certificates at a cost of $25 each. We help you decide how many you may need, if any.
- We can help you save on the cost of any casket, and direct you to a good cemetery. Interment at a National Cemetery is at no cost to veterans with an honorable discharge, and their spouses.
DEFINITION OF IMMEDIATE BURIAL AS PROVIDED BY THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
The body is buried shortly after death, usually in a simple container. No viewing or visitation is involved, so no embalming is necessary. A memorial service may be held at the graveside or later. Direct burial usually costs less than the “traditional,” full-service funeral. Costs include the funeral home’s basic services fee, as well as transportation and care of the body, the purchase of a casket or burial container and a cemetery plot or crypt. If the family chooses to be at the cemetery for the burial, the funeral home often charges an additional fee for a graveside service.
VETERANS’ IMMEDIATE BURIAL WITH
CLOSED CASKET & GRAVESIDE SERVICE
$2691 (INCLUDING SALES TAX ON CASKET)
This Low Cost Package Includes a Batesville Gemini Casket in Choice of Colors (State or County Fees are Excluded)
- Removal from place of death at any time, day or night, including weekends.
- Sheltering the remains, including refrigeration at no additional cost.
- Filing the death certificate electronically.
- Arrangement conference(s) with funeral director.
- Online Obituary including photographs.
- Batesville Gemini Casket in choice of colors.
- Schedule the interment with the Federal National Cemetery Office, with family’s choice of date and time. (Mon-Fri, 0900-1500 hrs)
- Transportation by van to the Tahoma National Cemetery for burial. (Use of a hearse or extra flower van is subject to additional fee.)
- Graveside Service with appropriate honor guard, flag ceremony, and taps.
- If death occurs in King County, WA, there is a $100 fee charged by the medical examiner.
- The Health Department issues certified death certificates at a cost of $25 each. We help you decide how many you may need, if any.
- We can help you save on the cost of other casket choices. Interment at a National Cemetery is at no cost to veterans with an honorable discharge, and their spouses.
Our prices are fully outlined in our General Price List, a copy of which may be downloaded HERE. We realize that it may be difficult to navigate through the price list but all funeral homes are required by the Federal Trade Commission to provide it in substantially the same form. In practice, our funeral directors will explain all of your options and help you save money on funeral arrangements.
