Funeral Cost Examples

All prices on this website current to 31/12/2022

Funeral Scenario 1- $8309.00

This family wish to have a service at Albany Creek Crematorium followed by a reception in the Bridgeman Lounge, they are expecting about 50 people to attend. The service is to be led by their local clergyman and a private cremation will follow. Details of the service will be circulated by social media or word of mouth. They do not wish to have service sheets or a photographic tribute, they have chosen a simple polished timber look coffin and family members will bring flowers from the family garden to place on top. Later the family will collect the ashes to take home.

Funeral Scenario 2 - $10794.00

The family want a very simple funeral service at Albany Creek Memorial Park, they are expecting about 100 people to attend. There will be viewing at the Alex Gow Funeral Home during the days prior to the service taking place and a funeral notice will be printed in the Courier Mail. A civil Celebrant will be engaged who will meet with the family to determine the content of the service. The family will also provide photos for our graphics team to create and print order of service sheets, and to reflect a love of the rosewood furniture in their house, the family have chosen a rosewood coloured coffin. At the conclusion of the service everyone is invited to the local RSL club to share some time together. Following the cremation, the family intends to scatter the ashes at a special place by the seaside. 

This family have chosen to hold a private service and are expecting about 40 people that will be mostly family members and some invited friends.  Whilst they want to keep things simple, they do wish to reflect their grandfather’s love of tractors, therefore his favourite 1957 Massey Ferguson tractor is parked under the porte cochere outside the Lakeview chapel. To reflect his love of woodworking in his retirement the family chose a solid timber coffin and instead of flowers they displayed some of the wooden toys he made for charity. The family will supply photos and music to our graphics team to create an audio-visual tribute and service sheets. A celebrant will lead the service, keeping it low key in line with the family’s wishes. At the conclusion of the ceremony they will make their way around to the Bridgeman lounge for morning tea.

Funeral Scenario 4 - $5324.00

The person who died did not wish to have a funeral. They didn’t want to cause any fuss or leave any financial burden for those left behind. Wanting to be respectful of this decision the family opted for a non-attended cremation. Family and friends expressed a wish to have a short viewing at our funeral home. After meeting with the family to determine their needs, we transferred the person from their place of rest to our funeral home and after basic mortuary care placed them in a very simple casket and arranged for the viewing. We took care of all the legal requirements such as gathering the medical and cremation documentation and permissions, registered the death, and then proceeded with the Cremation. There was no notice placed in the Courier Mail, no flowers, no service sheets.

Knowing what we know now about the importance of a funeral service when it comes to meeting the needs for mourning it would be our hope that this family despite not having a formal funeral service would find an opportunity to do something on their own to mark this life. This could be as simple as gathering together at home and sharing memories or going out to dinner as a family or having a memorial service at another time.

No Service

Fibreboard Coffin, Standard Dimensions

Viewing at Alex Gow Chapel

Full mortuary care

No newspaper notice

Cremation at Albany Creek Crematorium

Certified Copy of Death Certificate