At Friends Funeral Home, we offer a great variety of services involving cremation. We are open to custom-made arrangements and work with your special wishes. Cremation is a wonderful way to return our avatars into particles so they can rejoin the dance of life and nature.
Direct Cremation – $998
This includes:
- service of the funeral director and staff
- transportation of the remains to our crematory
- standard cremation container
- refrigeration and storage
- cremation fees
- simple black urn
- one certified death certificate and one disposition permit
- personal return of the cremains to the family
If you chose to purchase an urn online and have it send to us, we will return the cremains to you in your chosen urn with no further charges.
Home Wake, Cremation – $1998
This includes:
- service of the funeral director and staff
- preparing, washing and dressing the body of your loved one at home, with as little or much of your participation as you wish
- setting up a beautiful viewing/home wake on a bed of silks and roses at your home
(If you chose to keep the body at home for a wake (up to 3 days), we will apply dry ice to conserve it.) - transportation of the remains to our crematory
- standard cremation container
- refrigeration and storage
- cremation fees
- simple black urn
- one certified death certificate and one disposition permit
- personal return of the cremains to the family
If you chose to purchase an urn online and have it send to us, we will return the cremains to you in your chosen urn with no further charges.
I Hour Viewing at Crematory, Cremation – $1898
This includes:
- service of the funeral director and staff
- transportation of the remains to our crematory
- preparing, washing and dressing the body of your loved one in our prep room
- silk-covered cremation container
- setting of the features, silk covering of the body
- One hour viewing in private viewing room at Van Nuys crematory
- refrigeration and storage
- cremation fees
- simple black urn
- one certified death certificate and one disposition permit
- personal return of the cremains to the family
If you chose to purchase an urn online and have it send to us, we will return the cremains to you in your chosen urn with no further charges.
One Hour Viewing in Rental Casket at Van Nuys Crematory, Cremation – $2198
This includes:
- service of the funeral director and staff
- transportation of the remains to our crematory
- preparing, washing and dressing the body of your loved one in our prep room
- rental casket
- 1h viewing in a private room (holds 75 people max.)
- refrigeration and storage
- cremation fees
- simple black urn
- one certified death certificate and one disposition permit
- personal return of the cremains to the family
If you chose to purchase an urn online and have it send to us, we will return the cremains to you in your chosen urn with no further charges.
One Hour Viewing and Witness Cremation (Van Nuys) – $2498
This includes:
- service of the funeral director and staff
- transportation of the remains to our crematory
- refrigeration and storage
- preparing, washing and dressing the body of your loved one in our prep room
- silk-covered cremation container
- 1h viewing in a private room (holds 75 people max.), followed by
- witness cremation (same location)
- simple black urn
- one certified death certificate and one disposition permit
- personal return of the cremains to the family
If you chose to purchase an urn online and have it send to us, we will return the cremains to you in your chosen urn with no further charges.
Hindu Ceremony and Viewing, Witness Cremation – $2698
(Van Nuys or Altadena)
This includes:
- service of the funeral director and staff
- transportation of the remains to our crematory
- refrigeration and storage
- preparing, washing and dressing the body of your loved one in our prep room
- silk-covered cremation container
- 2h viewing and Hindu ceremony in a private room (holds 75 people max.), followed by
- witness cremation (same location)
- simple black urn
- one certified death certificate and one disposition permit
- personal return of the cremains to the family
We are happy to put you in touch with a Hindu priest ($300 extra charge) or work with your priest.
If you chose to purchase an urn online and have it send to us, we will return the cremains to you in your chosen urn with no further charges.
Viewing, Service at place of Worship, Cremation – $3198
This includes:
- service of the funeral director and staff
- transportation of the remains to our crematory
- refrigeration and storage
- preparing, washing, dressing and casketing the body of your loved one in our prep room
- rental casket and insert (the insert is a one-time use cremation container with white casket padding that will be cremated with the body)
- transportation in a hearse to the location, driver at standby, return to crematory after service
- flowers: two standing sprays and one casket spray (value: $300)
- viewing and ceremony/service at a place of worship of your choice, in your area. We help make all the arrangements, location fees up to $300 are included.
- cremation fee
- simple black urn
- one certified death certificate and one disposition permit
- personal return of the cremains to the family
If you chose to purchase an urn online and have it send to us, we will return the cremains to you in your chosen urn with no further charges.
Cremation, Custom-Made End-of-Life Celebration – Starting at $2298
This is includes:
- service of the funeral director and staff
- transportation of the remains to our crematory
- refrigeration and storage
- cremation fee
- simple black urn
- one certified death certificate and one disposition permit
- personal return of the cremains to the family
- organization (and hosting, if needed) of an End-of-Life Celebration. Popular locations include (but are not limited to) the beach, the park, rental event spaces, private homes, etc… (no location fees included)
We offer catering, surfer’s paddle outs, horse-drawn carriages, dove or bio-degradable balloon releases, musical or dance performances ceremonies for all kinds of religions, spiritual beliefs, walk of lives and pocket-books. We will work with you to make this a memorable, amazing event you will never forget.
