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Addleman Funeral Home • El Monte, CA

Addleman Funeral Home
11338 Valley Blvd
El Monte, CA 91731
(626) 442-1000
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Temple City Funeral Home • Temple City, CA

Temple City Funeral Home
5800 Temple City Blvd
Temple City, CA 91780
(626) 286-1126
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Adams Funeral Home • Compton, CA

Adams Funeral Home
501 E Palmer St
Compton, CA 90221
(323) 636-9864
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Valley Funeral Home • Burbank, CA

Valley Funeral Home
2121 W Burbank Blvd
Burbank, CA 91506
(818) 845-3766
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Avalon Pasadena Funeral Home & Cremation • Pasadena, CA

Avalon Pasadena Funeral Home & Cremation
415 E Orange Grove Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91104
(626) 449-2121
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Moritz Funeral Home • Montebello, CA

Moritz Funeral Home
913 W Whittier Blvd
Montebello, CA 90640
(323) 728-2133
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California Cremation Centers • Riverside, CA

California Cremation Centers
3773 Tibbetts Suite E
Riverside, CA 92506
(800) 466-6110

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Turner & Stevens Funeral Home • Alhambra, CA

Turner & Stevens Funeral Home
550 E Main St
Alhambra, CA 91801
(626) 282-4131

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Eternal Light Funeral Home • West Hollywood, CA

Eternal Light Funeral Home
7925 Santa Monica Blvd # 201
West Hollywood, CA 90046
(323) 848-2166

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Universal Chung Wah Funeral Home • Alhambra, CA

Universal Chung Wah Funeral Home
225 N Garfield Ave
Alhambra, CA 91801
(626) 281-7887

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Pierce Brothers Westwood Village • Los Angeles, CA

Pierce Brothers Westwood Village
1218 Glendon Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 474-1579

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Malinow & Silverman • Los Angeles, CA

Malinow & Silverman
7366 Osage Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90045
(310) 337-2666

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McCormick Mortuary Westchester • Los Angeles, CA

McCormick Mortuary Westchester
7366 Osage Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90045
(310) 641-1042

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Burials at Sea by Captain Johnnie Lee

Burials at Sea by Captain Johnnie Lee
P.O. Box 930
Hawthorne, CA 90251
(310) 387-0587

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Green Burial: No Embalming, No Metal Caskets, No Vaults.

From Today's Chicago Tribune:

What happened 30 years ago with the rise in cremation could eventually happen with green burials," said Joe Sehee, executive director of the Green Burial Council. "People like the idea of their burial being part of a national conservation strategy. ... They want their last act to be meaningful, something that heals the land and the soul and connects them to something bigger and longer-lasting than a coffin or an insurance policy."

Funeral directors cite problems

But green burials also have downsides, mainstream funeral directors contend. They say that makeup application, often used to make the deceased look better after long illnesses, is difficult without embalming. They worry that doing viewings quickly -- usually within 24 to 48 hours to beat any decomposition -- is sometimes too fast for grieving families. They say that digging graves in some parts of the country can be next to impossible for weeks on end in winter, but that unembalmed bodies should not be kept unburied for that long. And they assert that embalming cuts down on the risk, however small, of disease transmission from buried corpses.

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ABC CASKETS FACTORY - Los Angeles, CA

ABC CASKETS FACTORY
A Better Casket
1705 N. Indiana Street
Los Angeles, CA 90063
(323) 268-1783 Fax:

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Jewish Funeral Practices

Jewish funeral practices: why do we not encourage cremation? embalming? open caskets or viewing? flowers? ostentatious caskets? delayed funerals?
What is the funeral like? How do we mourn?

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Trinity Management • Los Angeles, CA

Trinity Management
159 W 126th St
Los Angeles, CA 90061
(323) 757-7717

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Forest Lawn Memorial Park • Los Angeles, CA

Forest Lawn Memorial Parks
6300 Forest Lawn Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90068
(323) 254-7251

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All Brass Memorial Chapel • Los Angeles, CA

All Brass Memorial Chapel
11030 Willowbrook Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90059
(323) 566-1330

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Solomon's Mortuary • Los Angeles, CA

Solomon's Mortuary
10625 S Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90003
(323) 757-1754

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Sholom Chapels • Los Angeles, CA

Sholom Chapels
8629 W Pico Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90035
(310) 659-3055

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House of Winston Mortuary • Los Angeles, CA

House of Winston Mortuary
9501 S Vermont Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90044
(323) 757-2271

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South Los Angeles Mortuary • Los Angeles, CA

South Los Angeles Mortuary Incorporated
1020 W 94th St
Los Angeles, CA 90044
(323) 757-3173

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All Brass Mortuary Removal Services • Los Angeles, CA

All Brass Mortuary Removal Services
1316 W 80th St
Los Angeles, CA 90044
(323) 751-5175

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A & A Service • Los Angeles, CA

A & A Service Incorporated
1600 N La Brea Ave Ste 111
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323) 466-0863

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Spalding Mortuary • Los Angeles, CA

Spalding Mortuary
3045 S La Brea Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90016
(323) 934-1181

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Cedar Hill Mortuary & Accommodations • Los Angeles, CA

Cedar Hill Mortuary & Accommodations
1722 Colorado Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90041
(323) 255-0710

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Crenshaw Removal Service • Los Angeles, CA

Crenshaw Removal Service
3860 Crenshaw Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90008
(323) 750-9395

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Payless Caskets • Los Angeles, CA

Payless Caskets
5436 Jillson St
Los Angeles, CA 90040
(323) 721-3827

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Forest Lawn Memorial Parks & Mortuaries • Glendale, CA

Forest Lawn Memorial Parks & Mortuaries
1712 South Glendale Avenue
Glendale, CA 91205
(800) 204-3131

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Forest Lawn Memorial Park is the original location of Forest Lawn, a chain of cemeteries in Southern California.

Forest Lawn was founded in 1906. Dr. Hubert Eaton took over the management of the cemetery in 1917 and is credited as being the "founder" of Forest Lawn for his innovations of establishing the "memorial park plan" (eliminating upright cemetery monuments) and being the first to open a funeral home on dedicated cemetery grounds.

Most of its burial plots have evocative names, including Eventide, Babyland (for infants, shaped like a heart), Graceland, Inspiration Slope, Slumberland (for children and adolescents), Sweet Memories, Vesperland, Borderland (on the edge of the cemetery), and Dawn of Tomorrow. Packages for burial cover a wide spectrum of prices: cremation urns, for example, range from those with names like "The Olympus," priced in the tens of thousands of dollars, down to the more lowly "The Plastic Container" and "The Steel Box," each priced less than $100.

The six Forest Lawn cemeteries contain about 1,500 statues, 500 of which are reproductions of famous works of art, in various locations. (Many statues around the cemetery are listed as being available for purchase for use near a tombstone.) Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper has been recreated in stained glass in the Memorial Court of Honor ‘in vibrant, glowing and indestructible colors.’ There are also a number of full-sized reproductions of other Renaissance sculptures, including Michelangelo's David and Moses.

There are three non-sectarian chapels: ‘The Little Church of the Flowers,’ ‘The Wee Kirk o’ the Heather,’ and ‘The Church of the Recessional’. Over 60,000 people have actually been married here (including Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, and Regis Philbin and his wife, Joy. Over 250,000 people are buried at Forest Lawn; there are over a million visitors each year, including thousands of local schoolchildren on field trips.

Some of the inspiration at Forest Lawn is patriotic rather than pious, such as the Court of Freedom, with its large mosaic of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence [1] and a 13-foot-high statue of George Washington. On display in the "Hall of the Crucifixion" is the panorama painting by the Polish artist Jan Styka entitled "The Crucifixion." It is the largest framed, mounted-to-canvas painting in the world, measuring 195 feet in length by 45 feet in height. The main gates of Forest Lawn - Glendale (above, right) are claimed to be the world's largest wrought-iron gates and are located at 1712 South Glendale Avenue, Glendale, California.

The Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery is a second park solely dedicated to the preservation of American history.

Forest Lawn's 300 acres (1.2 km²) of intensely landscaped grounds and thematic sculptures were the inspiration for the biting commentary of Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel The Loved One and Jessica Mitford's acerbic The American Way of Death. Many commentators have considered Forest Lawn to be a unique American creation, and perhaps a uniquely maudlin Los Angeles creation, with its "theme park" approach to death.

Among those interred in the cemetery are a number of important personalities and famous people, including men and women from the entertainment industry and their relatives. Some final resting places, such as those of Humphrey Bogart and Mary Pickford, are secluded in private gated gardens with no public access. A number of tombs are also kept from the public eye. The Court of Honor advertises that in some of the crypts beneath it are spots which no amount of money can buy, but individuals may be "voted in" as "Immortals."

Hillside Memorial Park & Mortuary • Los Angeles, CA

Hillside Memorial Park & Mortuary
6001 Centinela
Los Angeles, CA 90045
(310) 641-0707
(800) 576-1994

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Viega Robison Mortuary - Los Angeles, CA

Viega Robison Mortuary
5353 E Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90022
(323) 728-0166
5353 E Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90022

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Cremation Specialists of LA - Los Angeles, CA

Cremation Specialists of LA
5968 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90038
(323) 469-9933
5968 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038
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Agencia Cas-Car - Los Angeles, CA

Agencia Cas-Car
5258 Pomona Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90022
(323) 838-0745
5258 Pomona Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90022
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Ashes to Ashes - Los Angeles, CA

Ashes to Ashes
1301 N Western Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027
(323) 462-2260
1301 N Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Callanan Mortuary - Los Angeles, CA

Callanan Mortuary
1301 N Western Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027
(323) 462-2266
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Grup Deco California - Los Angeles, CA

Grup Deco California
4556 E Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90022
(323) 260-7995
4556 E Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90022
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California Casket - LA

California Casket
3153 Glendale Blvd
Glendale, CA 90039
(323) 660-1236
(888) 361-1200

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California Casket - Los Angeles, CA

California Casket
12553 W. Venice Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90066
(310) 390-9969
(800) 787-1400

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PATCO Mortuary Transportation - Los Angeles, CA

PATCO Mortuary Transportation
1373 S Orange Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90019
(323) 938-2001

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Bagues & Sons Mortuary - Los Angeles, CA

Bagues & Sons Mortuary
4221 E Cesar E Chavez Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90063
(323) 268-6373

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Guerra Gutierrez Mortuary - Los Angeles, CA

Guerra Gutierrez Mortuary
5800 E Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90022
(323) 722-1900

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Angelus Rosedale Cemetery - Los Angeles, CA

Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
1831 W Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90007
(323) 734-3155

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Castaneda-Crollett Mortuary - Los Angeles, CA

Castaneda-Crollett Mortuary
3715 E Cesar E Chavez Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90063
(323) 269-8455

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Chapel of the Pines Crematorium - Los Angeles, CA

Chapel of the Pines Crematorium
1605 S Catalina St
Los Angeles, CA 90006
(323) 731-5179

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Cremations Reach 50% in California; Funeral Homes Suffer

A report in SLATE Magazine today points out that it's a tough time to be in the "Death Care" business, what most people would refer to as the funeral home business.

The death rate has declined over the last few years.

Cremation is increasingly becoming an option. In 2005 50% of all deaths in California resulted in cremation as opposed to a traditional burial.

Sales at funeral industry giants Service Corp International and Batesville Casket Company are barely keeping pace with inflation.

Cremations cost on average $4,000 to $6,000 compared to $8,000 to $10,000 for a traditional funeral, casket and cemetery plot, but it's not just economics driving the trend toward cremations.

There's less stigma attached now than in the past. Religions are mostly dropping their objection to the idea (Jewish tradition being a major hold out). Americans are more mobile and families are more widely dispersed than ever before and that limits the need people feel to be buried in a particular spot. There are very few family burial plots anymore and we are increasingly a nation of people who don't know where they'll be buried... if at all.

And the environmental movement may be the funeral homes biggest enemies. The Green funeral is catching on and many are concerned about taking up space when it could be pt to better use. Eco friendly states such as Hawaii, Washington and California have some of the nations highest cremations rates.

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Heritage Crematories - Los Angeles, CA

Heritage Crematories
3223 E Pico Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90023
(323) 266-8879

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Abbey Bat Kol - Los Angeles, CA

Abbey Bat Kol
3440 John St
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(323) 644-1955

Abbott Burial & Cremation Society - Los Angeles, CA

Abbott Burial & Cremation Society
315 Silver Lake Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(323) 661-1111

Ashley-Grigsby Mortuary - Los Angeles, CA

Ashley-Grigsby Mortuary
9920 S Central Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90002
(323) 567-7728

Han Kook Mortuary - Los Angeles, CA

Han Kook Mortuary
2045 W Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90018
(323) 734-5656

Harrison-Ross Mortuary - Los Angeles, CA

Harrison-Ross Mortuary
1839 Firestone Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90001
(323) 584-1200

Funeraria La Pierce Brothers - Los Angeles, CA

Funeraria La Pierce Brothers
720 W Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(323) 655-7280

Mirabal Mortuary - Los Angeles, CA

Mirabal Mortuary
2814 N Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90031
(323) 221-2652

Groman Mortuaries - Los Angeles, CA

Groman Mortuaries
830 W Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(213) 748-0893

Armstrong Family Funeral - Los Angeles, CA

Armstrong Family Funeral
931 Venice Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(213) 747-9121

Kubota Nikkei Mortuary -

Kubota Nikkei Mortuary
911 Venice Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(213) 749-1449

Pierce Brothers Mortuary - Los Angeles, CA

Pierce Brothers Mortuary
759 W Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(213) 749-4151

Latino Americana Mortuary - Los Angeles, CA

Latino Americana Mortuary
3827 Whittier Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90023
(323) 265-7016

Dowd & Gonzalez Funeral Directors - Los Angeles, CA

Dowd & Gonzalez Funeral Directors
301 E 84th St
Los Angeles, CA 90003
(323) 778-0515

Oakdale Memorial Park - Los Angeles, CA

Oakdale Memorial Park
401 S Grand Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(323) 722-2323

Bagues Hermanos Funeraria - Los Angeles, CA

Bagues Hermanos Funeraria
1930 E 1st St
Los Angeles, CA 90033
(323) 268-0759

Bowers Brothers Mortuary - Los Angeles, CA

Bowers Brothers Mortuary
1930 E 1st St
Los Angeles, CA 90033
(323) 268-0759

Abbott & Hast Mortuary - Los Angeles, CA

Abbott & Hast Mortuary
315 Silver Lake Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(323) 661-1111

Gutierrez & Weber Mortuary - Los Angeles, CA

Gutierrez & Weber Mortuary
611 W Cesar E Chavez Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 624-7097

Gerald Fukui Mortuary - Los Angeles, CA

Gerald Fukui Mortuary
707 E Temple St
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 626-0441

Felipe Bagues Mortuary - Los Angeles, CA

Felipe Bagues Mortuary
1930 E 1st St
Los Angeles, CA 90033
(323) 267-4599

Community Funeral Service - Los Angeles, CA

Community Funeral Service
1605 S Catalina St
Los Angeles, CA 90006
(323) 731-5734

Home of Peace Mortuary - Los Angeles, CA

Home of Peace Mortuary
Jewish Cemetery
4334 Whittier Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90023
(323) 656-6260

Chung Wah Funeral - Los Angeles, CA

Chung Wah Funeral Corporation
2728 N Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90031
(323) 222-3838

Boyd Funeral Home - Los Angeles, CA

Boyd Funeral Home
11109 S Vermont Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90044
(323) 756-8391

DE Haven Funeral Home - Los Angeles, CA

Dehaven Funeral Home
9201 S Vermont Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90044
(323) 242-5233

Angelus Funeral Home - Los Angeles, CA

Angelus Funeral Home
3875 Crenshaw Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90008
(323) 296-6666

Hollywood Forever Funeral Home - Los Angeles, CA

Hollywood Forever
Funeral Home & Cemetery
6000 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90038
(323) 469-6349

Plan your own funeral and go out with a bang or a bargain

By David Colker,
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

You can't cheat death. So you might as well face it as a smart shopper. Planning a funeral used to fall almost entirely to funeral homes, which guided bereaved loved ones into standardized deals that might have included services or items the dearly departed might not have chosen. But federal and state laws have put the power of choice into the hands of consumers, and more and more people are taking advantage of it by planning their own send-offs, thereby controlling the cost. A poll conducted by Harris Interactive in 2005 found that 47% of people said they were going to plan their own funerals. And businesses -- factory-direct emporiums, online merchants and even Costco -- have responded with products to meet the need. It's not difficult, according to consumer advocates, to design a funeral that can cost a good deal less than the national average of about $6,500. You can even go green with an environmentally friendly exit strategy. So if you choose to go death shopping, the place to start is with your rights under the law.

The Funeral Rule

The bedrock federal consumer law on death matters went into effect in 1984. It's known throughout the industry as the "Funeral Rule."

The law has strong provisions that govern how funeral providers have to deal with consumers:

* If you call a funeral home and ask about prices, the staff has to give them to you, even if you don't disclose your name or telephone number.

* If you visit a funeral home and ask about prices, they must give you a detailed, printed document known as the "general price list." And you can take it home.

* You have the right to buy some items, such as caskets, from outside providers. The funeral home can't add a corkage-type fee when you BYOB (bring your own box).

* Caskets are not required for cremations. A provider who offers cremations must make alternative boxes available.

* Before you buy, all the goods and services you've chosen must be detailed in a written statement that shows the cost of each item. If an item is required because of a law or cemetery requirement, that must be noted.

Now that you know the rules, it's times to plan.

Death wishes

If there's one thing the funeral establishment and consumer advocates can agree upon, it's the value of making a plan that takes into account both your wishes and financial realities.

"It allows a person to make decisions at a time when emotions are not raw," said Shaun Meyers, a funeral director in Ogden, Utah, and a member of the National Funeral Directors Assn. executive board.

Joshua Slocum, executive director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance watchdog group, advised visiting or at least calling several funeral homes to compare. Be wary, he said, of package deals that include the casket, service, flowers and other items.

"They might say something like, 'This is our traditional package,' " Slocum said. "Every time you see that word 'traditional,' cross it out and replace it with 'most profitable.' "

He suggests making your choices a la carte so you can forgo items often included in packages.

For example, no federal or state laws require embalming of a body before burial, although many funeral homes won't allow a viewing without it. Skipping embalming and viewing can save about $800, according to average prices determined in a 2005 National Funeral Directors survey.

But you have to act quickly. If you don't embalm, California law says a funeral home must refrigerate the body after 24 hours, and that can cost about $50 a day.

That's money in your afterlife pocket, or you can put it toward other items. Hollywood Forever Funeral Home, located on the grounds of the cemetery of the same name, has some of the most flamboyant offerings.

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