According to a recent article in the Washington Times, people are selling their cemetery property in order to pay bills and make ends meet.  This is creating a buyers market for people looking for cemetery property.  There's even a web site for buying and selling cemetery property - GraveSolutions.com.

At Indiana Funeral Care, we offer complete funeral services starting at $3,950 and a direct cremation service for just $890.  Call us today at 1-866-570-0029 to find out how you can pre-plan your funeral and lock-in these value-priced services.

The Indiana Church Funeral Plan is a way of renewing old traditions.  Over 75 years ago, visitations and funerals were held in the church or the home.  Indiana Funeral Care offers just that.  You shouldn't have to pay for lavish funeral home facilities if you don't want to use it.  With the Indiana Church Funeral Plan we bring a low cost funerals to you at your church.  The staff is committed to providing straightfoward pricing.  Funeral services starts at $3950 with a complete funeral service including a choice of caskets in several colors, visitation, flowers, guest register book, 100 memorial folders and one death certificate.  Please visit our website, Indiana Funeral Care.     

Most veterans have no idea that VA National Cemeteries offer a free grave, free opening and closing of the grave, free outer burial container and free marker for the veteran AND spouse.  When people are planning funerals for veterans, they should at least consider a National Cemetery.  An honorable and beautiful place for burial and they will save thousands of dollars.  

The publisher of a new book called "When the Sun Goes Down: Planning the Funeral of Your Life" gave away a life-sizeed casket bookcase in a recent raffle promoting the book. 

Numerous books have been written with standard forms to be filled out and specific instructions to be followed for planning your funeral.  When the Sun Goes Down makes a giant leap of faith and suggests that you create your very own funeral service.  Just as traditional wedding vows did not quite “say it all” at your wedding, nor did the traditional “hospital birth” suffice for your baby’s delivery, neither must you compromise this final celebration of your life with a customary funeral service. You are entitled to make this last celebration of your life entirely your own!  The information in this book is meant to spark your imagination and assist you in this exciting and stimulating process!

Indiana Funeral Care can help you plan and pay for your funeral so that you get the celebration of life you desire and your family doesn't have to worry and wonder what you would have wanted.  We offer low cost caskets, discounted funeral and creamtion services and most of all, peace of mind.

Hanging out at the VFW Post #10003 last night at the reception to honor Del Waugh, a member's wife said her husband understood that VA Funerals were paid for by the VA until just recently.  When they asked a local funeral home about VA benefits, they responded that they did not know, but would look into it.  We can clarify VA Funeral benefits in advance with just a call.  Now that he realized that there is not such thing as VA Funerals and that the benefits would not cover the cost, he wants to preplan his funeral.

Lady at the Senior Expo today told me she wished she had known about the Indiana Church Funeral Plan before she had pre planned funerals for herself and her husband.  She was surprised to learn that pre planned funerals could be transferred and done so easily.  She was also surprised that since we offer low price funerals that the excess would be refunded to her family at the time of service.  She asked that we assist her with the transfer and we are pleased to assist! 

For people seeking Indiana discount funerals and cremations, pre planning helps a great deal.  People that pre plan funerals spend less, make better decisions and are more satisfied with the results after the funeral. 

I was reading some statistics on cremations in the United States.  It appears that Hawaii has the highest percentage of cremations at 66.32% and Alabama has the lowest at 9.47%.  The U.S. as a whole is running at about 33% (as of 2006).

In these difficult financial times many people are looking for discount funerals or cheap caskets. Pre-planning your funeral is another excellent way to save money.  Pre-planning allows you to lock in today's prices and protects your family from the emotional and financial stress.  Call us at 1-866-570-0029 to find out more.

At Indiana Funeral Care we can provide a dignified and memorable celebration of life whether you choose cremation or burial. 

When someone passes away and arrangements are to be made things can get crazy.  Some families don't know where to start.  Pre-planned funerals can help relieve that stress on loved ones.  When the time comes the family can rest assured their wishes have been made and can be carried out. A pre planned funeral can be funded or unfunded.  If you want to pay now, set up payments, or set up an insurance assignment, you can.  If you just want to make arrangements and pay at the time of need you may do that too. 

Cheap doesn't have to mean low-quality. I am proud that we can offer many cheap caskets that are nice enough for my own family to use (although mine is a cremation family) that don't look cheap or trashy. Check out the caskets in our Indiana Church Funeral Plans- http://indianafuneralcare.com/icfp.html They are nice and dignified, and they are inexpensive caskets that are good. We don't offer anything that we wouldn't use for our own loved ones. You don't have to overspend to get the quality care your family deserves.

Many people search for cheap caskets online because of the extraordinary markup many funeral homes place on caskets.  I am told they would prefer to buy the casket from the funeral home, but some of the prices are so high, they go online to find sources for discount caskets.  The fact that most funeral homes markup their caskets so high has always amazed me.  Every business has the right to set pricing at whatever level they deem appropriate, but consumers are smart and getting smarter all the time.
    The cost of the casket is included in the Church Funeral Plan prices at Indiana Funeral Care, but we also price caskets separately.  All of our caskets are made by companies with manufacturing operations in Indiana.  We do not sell caskets made in China, but our casket prices are cheaper than any other Indianapolis funeral homes and to the best of our knowledge, in the State of Indiana.

 We recently conducted pre planned funeral services for a man that died with no living relatives.  Fortunately, the man was blessed with good friends that were looking out for his well being, even after his death.  They came in prepared for a battle over the excess funds remaining in his pre-paid funeral trust, but left every satisfied.  In his latter years expressed a preference for simpler services than when he made these arrangements years ago.  Combined with the fact that our prices were substantially lower, the amount of the refund was in the thousands of dollars.  We decided with the help of the friends to designate a couple of charities that he would support and donated the excess funds accordingly.

There is a family that I have been working with for a couple months.  Both grandparents are dieing and they do not want to spend a lot on their funerals or have the money to do so.  Through a search of cheap funerals Indiana and funerals for veterans, they found us.  While pre-planning the funeral with the family and talking, they decided on an immediate burial at Marion National Cemetery. 
For veterans if they decide to be buried or have their ashes buried at any National Cemetery there is no cost to the family.  The plot, opening and closing of the grave space, the vault, and grave marker are all provided by the government as long as the veteran can show proof that he was honorable discharged.
After explaining this to the family, you could actually see the relief they felt knowing that husband and wife could still have a final resting place together and it would not cost them anything.  They were then able to pick out a low cost casket and keep the funeral cost at $2500.00 for both funerals.
I left their house that day with a feeling of pride.  I was able to offer them everything they wanted and I was not taking advantage of them by charging a lot of money for something they could not afford.