1. Funeral Industry Consultants 2013) and, according to our 2014 survey, charged $737 less for direct cremations than did funeral homes. We estimated the savings by multiplying the number of cremations in each of the 34 states by 0.139 times $737. The number of cremations in each state was obtained by multiplying the number of deaths in;Direct disposition firms in Florida handled 13.9 percent of cremations in 2012,2015
2. Vital Statistics Trends in Arizona;Accessed April,2017