Comment: Expensive Rest – Funeral

Funerals are expensive. But in some cities and towns, they are particularly costly. Should be made to relieve the surviving financially. Funerals are expensive. But in some cities and towns, they are particularly costly.

The reason: The cemetery fees vary from place to place and differ partly ten-fold. Should be made to relieve the surviving financially. This applies all the more where the funeral costs are particularly high. A funeral provides relief. Covers not only the funeral costs to the insured amount, you also offers more extensive services. Germany’s municipalities have strapped coffers. Therefore, they increase fees where it goes. Cemetery fees are a source of income.

You have been consistently increased in recent years. But the differences are extremely high from place to place. The consumer initiative Aeternitas e.V. has revealed that a survey. As a result, a so-called Earth choice Tomb in Aachen is, for example, the most expensive. There you must Pay bereaved 4,148 euros. In Dresden, however, the same grave euros only 743. This is a difference of more than 550 percent. When an unmarked urn grave charges differences fail even more. In Schweinfurt, which is to have for 120 euros. In Cologne, however, the survivors must muster more than ten times as much namely 1,502 euro. And it doesn’t when the cemetery charges: coffin or URN, Tomb, flowers and grief letters costs also. In Germany, a funeral in an average 5,000 euros. In Aachen it is obviously quickly\”, says Walter Capellmann, main representative in Germany of Monuta N.V., the Dutch specialist for bereavement care. It is already important to provide financially for their own funeral to relieve the survivors. If one lives in a community with high cemetery fees and would like to be buried, it is all the more important.\” Not only financially but also organizationally provide a so-called provides relief Burial, not only financially, but also organizationally.