I was shocked by the prices for funerals. One of the residents of Yekaterinburg said that a funeral in the city can cost more than 200 thousand rubles. For his family, such an amount turned out to be unaffordable, so they decided to cremate the deceased and then bury the urn with the ashes. The burial of the urn itself cost just over 2,000 rubles. Considering all expenses, the separation and burial cost the family almost 100 thousand rubles. The head of the Association of Funeral Organizations of Ural, Dmitri Khazov, explained that the service in the city does not dig graves or install headstones. - Third party organizations are engaged in digging the graves; The cemetery management does not have prices. These are government agency employees who issue permits on behalf of the city administration; They themselves do not perform any action," says Hazov. An expert in the field of funeral services, who asked to remain anonymous, advises contacting the cemeteries directly regarding burial matters, and not through funeral agencies. That way, he says, there is less risk of overpayment. We are always in touch here.

I was shocked by the prices for funerals. One of the residents of Yekaterinburg said that a funeral in the city can cost more than 200 thousand rubles. For his family, such an amount turned out to be unaffordable, so they decided to cremate the deceased and then bury the urn with the ashes. The burial of the urn itself cost just over 2,000 rubles. Considering all expenses, the separation and burial cost the family almost 100 thousand rubles. The head of the Association of Funeral Organizations of Ural, Dmitri Khazov, explained that the service in the city does not dig graves or install headstones. - Third party organizations are engaged in digging the graves; The cemetery management does not have prices. These are government agency employees who issue permits on behalf of the city administration; They themselves do not perform any action," says Hazov. An expert in the field of funeral services, who asked to remain anonymous, advises contacting the cemeteries directly regarding burial matters, and not through funeral agencies. That way, he says, there is less risk of overpayment. We are always in touch here.