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50 Cherry Hill Road, Princeton, NJ 08540 |
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Funeral Consumers Alliance of Princeton
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WHAT IS THE SURVEY? One of the most important and useful tasks the FCAP does for its members and the public is the funeral price survey. No other nonprofit consumer organization compiles this information, and the public often has no idea how much funeral prices and options can vary. A well-done funeral price survey is not only essential education for our members (they need to know how to shop for themselves, not just how to depend on your cooperating funeral homes), but essential to any member of the public who would like to be an informed consumer. Our price survey gathers and compiles the range of prices at funeral homes and cremation services in our area. These are not just the member prices at our cooperating funeral homes. We contacted all the funeral homes considered to be within the greater Princeton, N.J. area (including Cranbury, Ewing, Hamilton, Hightstown, Hillsborough, Hopewell, Jamesburg, Monmouth Junction, Pennington, Princeton, Somerville, and Trenton). A number of them were contacted several times. Our surveyors wrote, phoned, and when necessary visited each home. Despite Federal regulations that require that each funeral home give the General Price List to anyone who asks, in person, about funeral goods, funeral services, or the prices of such goods or services, our survey indicates several funeral directors who refused to do so. The accompanying report indicates the stated fees for a comprehensive variety of service. It does not purport to list all of the fees, but a sufficient range to help differentiate among the funeral homes.
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This page last edited: February 24, 2011 |
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