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Large price ranges for funeral services

Prices for direct cremation after death ranged from $700 to $3,535 at Philadelphia area funeral homes, according to a survey released Thursday by the tax-exempt Funeral Consumers Alliance of Greater Philadelphia.

Prices for direct cremation after death ranged from $700 to $3,535 at Philadelphia area funeral homes, according to a survey released Thursday by the tax-exempt Funeral Consumers Alliance of Greater Philadelphia.

The survey of 125 funeral homes also found that prices for immediate burial, which does not require embalming, ranged from $900 to $7,138. The median price, which means that half were more and half were less, was $2,375.

The goal of the survey, conducted by volunteers who sometimes had a hard time obtaining price lists from funeral homes, is to help consumers price-shop for funeral services.

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