[esquirette]

Side tidbit....talking to a funeral home guy, he indicated that if a family buys a casket from Costco, they might find it a bit inconvenient finding any other services such as embalming.
Business is business, I guess.
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My goal is always to avoid funeral directors anyway. I am not ready to quote a statute or anything, but I do not think embalming is legally required. I don’t think funeral services, aside from signing the death certificate, are otherwise legally required either, but I am pretty sure we will find out after this reply....... ;-)

[ErnBatavia]

You're right that embalming isn't required by law, at least in Kalifornia...we did the full monty, however, with my parents, since they desired the open casket show.

I'm still totally pissed at Forest Lawn - I'd prepaid a certain number of death certificates, and they "stole" one, so they could turn it in and collect the prepaid insurance we'd bought pre-death.....I literally tore them a new a**hole over that stunt.