Dear Friend:

Thank you for visiting LowCostCremation.com!

Your visit here today will be both enlightening and educational. If you've recently experienced a death or you are preparing to lose someone you love, I hope this site will bring you some degree of comfort and will prepare you for the decisions that you'll have to make in the days ahead.

LowCostCremation.com has absolutely nothing to do with funerals. So if you're a curious consumer or a member of the media probing for a news story, we can't help you. 95% of LowCostCremation.com visitors intend on arranging a direct cremation service (61% of all cremations are "direct") so funeral information isn't something they're interested in reading.

I'm not downplaying the importance of funerals and ritual in our lives. Funerals allow us to confront death in an environment that's comforting while being surrounded by family members and friends. Funerals also block "official" time for individuals and communities to grieve among many other things.

The thing is, not all of us need the support, some of us would rather bypass the show in favor of a service that's more simple, while many others prefer the privacy afforded by a simple direct cremation service. That's all. We're not anti anything here.

How you choose to honor your dead and dispose of their body is a very personal and private matter. I don't think anyone should interfere with your plans and criticism of what you spend (or how little you spend) is inappropriate and tasteless. If a $15,000.00 funeral is something you want, then do it! On the other hand, if a $1,800.00 direct cremation or a $3,500.00 simple graveside service is more appropriate for you, then by all means, arrange such a service.

I'm a cremationist. Cremationists advocate cremation as a means of preparing the dead for final disposition. The fact that you're visiting this web site tells me you're probably a cremationist yourself.

LowCostCremation.com is published by The American Cremation Directory. We are NOT a funeral home, mortuary, crematory, cremation service, direct disposition establishment, or a memorial society. We don't sell anything here other than low cost advertising space to proactive, progressive, funeral and cremation service professionals who want to reach out to the large and ever-growing number of Internet-savvy, cremation-minded consumers.

LowCostCremation.com will introduce you to firms that offer a basic direct cremation service. Such services are CONSIDERABLY less expensive -- thus our domain name!) than full service traditional funerals that are followed by in-ground burial.

Many of the firms on this web site offer traditional funerals that can be followed by cremation, while other firms are prohibited by law from offering anything more than a direct cremation. These firms are called direct disposers or direct disposition establishments. Select states -- Florida is one -- make this license distinction.

More important than a firm name however, LowCostCremation.com will provide you with the name of an individual who represents the firm. This person might be the owner, manager, or a licensed funeral director. Knowing the name of a contact person is empowering and stress-relieving considering 98% of consumers begin a relationship with a funeral home or cremation provider by calling on the telephone.

There are many reasons why people opt for cremation over whole body in-ground burial or above-ground entombment. If this topic interests you, please visit the Why People Choose Cremation page.

Your reasons for selecting cremation (or considering it) are personal but I want you to know that they're perfectly valid and acceptable to me. Don't let anyone -- not me, your spouse, life partner, funeral director, or clergy person -- influence you.

When you've finished reading this web site, you'll be a knowledgeable consumer so you'll make intelligent, financially-responsible decisions either in the hours or days ahead, or years down the road.

I hope LowCostCremation.com answers your basic cremation questions. If I can assist you with additional information, please visit the Contact page to forward me e-mail.

Thanks for the visit!

John G. DePretis,

Webmaster and Publisher

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