Singapore’s Cheapest Funeral Services

With the recent news about how funeral service providers seem to be charging bereaved families haphazardly during times of grieve and stress, families are getting more cautious when they engage funeral companies to help with a funeral. This is understandable given how badly the news has portrayed the entire issue.

With the increasing inflation rates coupled with high retrenchment rates, Singaporeans are getting more practical and want the best value for money deals in general. This thinking applies to funerals as well. We see an increase in the number of families wanting the simplest funerals which often translates into the cheapest funerals.

Funeral packages come in various price range, depending on how grand a funeral you want.

If you are not too fussy and the only factor you are looking at while arranging for a funeral is price, then go for a direct funeral. A direct funeral does not have a funeral wake and involves only three steps:
1. Collection of body from the place of death
2. Dressing of deceased
3. Sending of the decedent to the place of cremation

To conduct a direct funeral at the lowest possible cost, do it at Mandai Crematorium (the government-owned columbarium), since the cost to have a cremation is the lowest there.

If the crematorium has cremation slots on the same day, the cremation can be conducted on the same day and the entire process can be concluded within hours.

That is what we would usually aim to do as well, so as to prevent the need for embalming which done to preserve the body should the need to store the body arise.

The cost for a legit direct cremation ranges from as low as $1,380 to $1,580. This cost is a quarter of what you would have to pay compared to a free-thinker funeral wake at a void deck in Singapore. The reason for choosing to use a free-thinker funeral wake for reference here is because it is the cheapest due to the absence of rituals and chantings of any kind.

Most funeral service providers offer roughly the same thing so it is important that you compare properly and go with the funeral director you feel you can communicate best with since he or she would be the main point of contact for at least one to two days.

At the end of the day, how much you spend on a funeral really depends on your own budget and at Harmony Funeral Care, the entire cost of the funeral would be itemised and broken down clearly on a sales agreement form upon engagement. This helps to prevent the exact scenario described at the beginning of this post. You will know exactly how much and what to expect to pay from the sales agreement form, providing you with more certainty and a peace of mind.

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