{"id":13582,"date":"2016-01-25T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13582"},"modified":"2016-01-20T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T21:58:42","slug":"the-economics-of-cremations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-economics-of-cremations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Cremations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/011916_2324_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Parting looked at cremations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cremations in the United States are on the rise. They are expected to make up half of all funerals in 2018. They were just a quarter 20 years before.<\/li>\n<li>This seems to be because those unaffiliated with a religion prefer cremations \u2013 and the number of those people are on the rise.<\/li>\n<li>Cremations allow grieving families to have more control over how their loved ones are mourned. The end product is ashes that can be placed next to a tree, hill, or waterfall without purchasing a plot.<\/li>\n<li>They can also be cheaper than burials which can require expensive coffins.<\/li>\n<li>Crematoriums are thus a thriving business. One publicly traded company has thousands of locations across the US and is worth over $5 billion.<\/li>\n<li>It costs about $1,000 for a facility to cremate a body.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes customers will be charged less because the real margins are in add-on products\/services such as caskets, flowers, and embalming.<\/li>\n<li>Others can cost a lot more. The FTC allows funeral parlours to keep their pricing secret in most cases, making it difficult for grieving family members to find the most affordable option.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the business, and find a deeper analysis of industry pricing over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/bw\/articles\/2013-10-24\/is-funeral-home-chain-scis-growth-coming-at-the-expense-of-mourners\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/bw\/articles\/2013-10-24\/is-funeral-home-chain-scis-growth-coming-at-the-expense-of-mourners\">The Parting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parting looked at cremations: Cremations in the United States are on the rise. They are expected to make up half of all funerals in 2018. They were just a quarter 20 years before. This seems to be because those unaffiliated with a religion prefer cremations \u2013 and the number of those people are on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/011916_2324_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13582"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13604,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582\/revisions\/13604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}