Six years ago, Kelly Avery and Kristin Harper, sisters from Birmingham, Ala., gathered their families by the sky-blue ocean waters of Destin, Fla., to memorialize their mother, Barbara Harper. They ...
FUNERALS ARE OFTEN ONE OF LIFE’S BIGGEST EXPENSES. PLANNING AHEAD CAN BE UNCOMFORTABLE, BUT IT CAN SAVE MONEY AND HELP EASE THE BURDEN ON YOUR LOVED ONES. CONSUMER REPORTS HAS SOME PRACTICAL ADVICE ON ...
The median cost of a traditional funeral with burial and viewing is about $8,300, according to a 2023 report from the National Funeral Directors Association, the most recent data available. Cremation ...
More than half of U.S. adults aged 45 and older estimate the cost of a funeral at less than $10,000, yet the actual costs are actually somewhere between $15,000 and $20,000, according to Choice Mutual ...