My goal is to help protect them. The cost can vary, depending on what consumers choose. Funeral and burial expenses have exceeded the rate of inflation every year since at least 1990. They have exceeded the Consumer Price Index, as compared to all other consumer items. The high price of caskets.
Caskets are one of the most expensive items in a funeral.
The information is hard to quantify, but one source said caskets carry an average mark-up of 500 percent. Some are marked up as high as 2,000 percent. The variety of cemeteries and the lack of cemetery regulation. The U.S. Geological Survey is naming, for the first time, all U.S. cemeteries. An estimated 200,000 cemeteries will be identified when the project is completed.