Just rethinking this a bit. If everything was shut down, perhaps people weren't going the traditional funeral route. Maybe there was a bumper crop of cremations.
I only speak from my own experiences. My mother was cremated at a funeral home in Nevada and my father at a funaral home in Washington. Neither had a viewing or service - we picked up their ashes and had services elsewhere later. My spouse and I both have prepaid cremation policies at a funeral home with no viewing or services provided in Oregon.
Just rethinking this a bit. If everything was shut down, perhaps people weren't going the traditional funeral route. Maybe there was a bumper crop of cremations.
The funeral home would still be handling the bodies.
Exactly. And there are still obituaries. None of that was high by comparison to other years.
Not necessarily. My husband and I are opting for morgue to crematorium service. We'll have a memorial Mass after interment. $5k vs. $45k.
Morgue, crematorium, funeral home, they're all the same type of business. And they handle all the bodies.
That is true but cremations are also performed by funeral homes
Only if there is a viewing.
I only speak from my own experiences. My mother was cremated at a funeral home in Nevada and my father at a funaral home in Washington. Neither had a viewing or service - we picked up their ashes and had services elsewhere later. My spouse and I both have prepaid cremation policies at a funeral home with no viewing or services provided in Oregon.
My grandparents both died in the past year, they are definitely handling bodies like normal.