How this is made

We take no money to influence what families see. No referral fees, no ads, no featured placement, ever.

Funeral homes can buy market analytics from us, and that is the whole business model. It never changes what any family is shown here, and nobody can pay to appear, to rank, to be left out, or to have a figure softened. Saying so plainly is worth more to a family than any of that money would be.

Where a figure comes from

Every price on this site is read off a funeral home's own general price list, the document federal rule requires them to hand you. We collect those documents honestly: an honest user agent that says who we are, robots.txt obeyed, and a site that refuses us recorded as refusing us rather than worked around. Where a document can only be collected by a person in a browser, a person collects it.

The document is then read line by line into services and figures, and a licensed funeral professional reads the assembled figures against the home's own document before anything is published. That review is the whole product. A number nobody has checked is worth less than no number at all.

What we publish, and what stays internal

Per home, per service: one rounded ballpark, one sentence saying what is inside that figure and what is not, sales tax always described as approximate with a plain instruction to ask the funeral home, the date the list was posted and the date we checked it, and one link to the price list itself. The exact assembled totals, the line by line math, and the review flags stay internal. A ballpark invites a question. A precise total pretends to be a quote, and only the funeral home can quote you.

A burial figure on a price list buys the funeral home's services and never the casket, so wherever a burial figure appears here it says so in the same plain sentence. Where a home prices an immediate burial with its own least expensive casket inside the total, that figure says that instead, because the blanket sentence would be false of it.

What we refuse to do

We never invent a number. An unknown rate, an unverified fee, an unpriced item: the page names the gap in plain words instead of filling it. A state gets a color on the map only once 3 reviewed price lists in it post the service, because a median one document can move is not a median. And a price list that prices a method its own state's law does not allow is pricing a trip out of state and back, so it is never shown as a local service.

Where the work stands

9,179 posted price lists collected from the 17,971 funeral homes we know of. 2,668 of those documents read cleanly end to end. None are published yet, because the review has not finished on any of them. These counts are recomputed from the collection itself, not typed by hand.

Corrections

Documents go out of date and readers catch things. Tell us if a figure looks wrong, or send us a price list we are missing. Every message is read by a person.