Best Posts in Thread: FUNERAL,BURIAL COSTS

From the date and time of death you have 24 hours to have the body cremated which will be 45,000 pesos at the Chinese cemetery at the back of the Capitol. The crematorium will not except the body after the 24 hours if the body is not embalmed. That is their rules like it or not.

Sadly I know cuz I have just cremated my good American Amigo RIP mate

 

It looks like cremation after viewing has a coffin for the corpse to be on display for a few days.
Cremation before viewing has the corpse getting cremated and then people can come look at the fancy urn.
My wife and I have a basic St Peters burial plan. It cost about 6000 pesos per year for 5 years. I think it includes inbalming, coffin, transport from hospital to mortuary to house, church and cemetery. Some candle sticks etc.
I'm told if you walk in off the street without a plan you would pay 75000 pesos.
The plan is transferrable if it's fully paid up.

 

Cost for mother in law about 6 or 8 years ago was about ₱250,000.oo PHPs about $4,000.oo USDs then. My Son in 2004 in the US nearly $7,000.oo. Dying is quite an expense on the living. So make a WILL and pay in advance for some of the death expenses. It will not hurt you but will be a great help for those love you leave behind.

 

Lenny; Try the following Link mate.
https://www.stpeter.com.ph/cremation

It quotes St. James (Cremation before Viewing) and St. Jude (Cremation After Viewing) Prices. (I am not sure if the Packages are called St. James & St. Jude to differentiate between the two options, but assume that might be the case...) The Cremation BEFORE Viewing Option has my mind working overtime as to what your loved ones will be viewing or if it is simply a poor choice of words...

There is also a Cremation Plan fully explained here;
https://www.stpeter.com.ph/pdf/St_Peter_Cremation_Plan__1_.pdf

 

Many years ago I decided I want to be burned and my ashes scattered in the ocean. I have had a few friends who died here in the Philippines. Together with other friends, we said one last goodbye at the hospital in a room where the store dead people, not nice for sure. Believe me, I saw how the threw around with the dead bodies like it was a sack of rice. After 2-3 days a dead person starts to look like something else, than that person you know before, of course, no aircon or cooling. My gf has order to burn me immediately and throw my ash in the sea. I hear a lot of different prices for a funeral. It is generally known that St. Peters Chapel give commission to the hospital if they recommend their company, cool business

 

We buried my wife's mother in Bayawan this past July, and I'm going to estimate it ran about $5,000 USD, not including a pre-paid package my wife had purchased which covered basic mortuary expenses, a beautiful casket and set up of a in-home viewing. I'll estimate that was about another $1000 which she had paid in installments. It was from St. Peter Chapels, which seems to be a national outfit with branches in almost every province. I thought they did a pretty good job for their part, might be worth looking into one of their plans.

Some expenses were due to the need to purchase of a cemetery plot (Bayawan Memorial Park, a private cemetery built by Philsouth), the long period (I think a month total) of before and after the funeral mourning where people come to the house and pray and you should provide some refreshments, some additional mortuary services because of the delay while we made arrangements to get there from the US, transfer of the remains of her father from a crypt in the public cemetery to the new plot, transportation for what seemed to be their whole outlying barangay to the town for the funeral, and a simple lunch for more than 200 people afterwards.

Definitely some expenses there that not everyone would need or choose to incur. But still far less than would have cost in the US.

 

HaHa..yes think your right about the insurance part!! And thank you for your information ..