Do You Have to Buy a Casket or Urn From the Funeral Home? (No—and Here’s What to Know)
Nope. And the funeral home has to accept whatever you bring—no extra fee, no handling fee, no exceptions. Most people don’t know this. They walk in—usually within hours of a death, exhausted, doing this for the first time—and assume the casket in the showroom or the urn on the shelf is the only option. The…

