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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
I know several people who pre paid and then the funeral home added a bunch of bs charges after the fact. One guy was charged 750 extra in carbon tax on his cremation.
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My father had prepaid for his end of life preparations with a local funeral home. When his cancer was discovered my parents reviewed their contract with the funeral home over the phone. The funeral home attempted to add a "fuel surcharge" to his cremation contract because oil was expensive then. On that day, the last one he would drive, he drove down to their office and demanded the removal of the charge because they had already prepaid as per the terms of the contract. He informed them that he was having his will amended so that his estate would take the funeral home to small claims court should they insist on breaking the contract. They relented. Funeral homes bank on the grieving not fighting additional charges because they are usually already destroyed emotionally.