Our General Price List - Effective April 15, 2025

ecremationmn.com
(a service of Twin Cities Cremation, LLC)
344 University Avenue W., Saint Paul, MN 55103
651-292- 0292

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires you have an opportunity to see our prices before you begin the actual Arrangement Process. After reading this page please scroll to the bottom and check the acknowledgement square before clicking the next button.

The goods and services shown below are those we can provide for our customers. You may choose only the items you desire. However, any funeral arrangements you select will include a charge for basic services and overhead. If legal or other requirements mean you must buy items you did not specifically ask for, we will explain the reason in writing on the statement we provide describing the funeral goods and services you selected.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:

Basic services of Funeral Director and Staff and Overhead $1,495.00
Our services include: conducting the arrangement conference, planning the funeral; consulting with family and clergy; shelter of remains; preparing and filing of necessary notices; obtaining necessary authorizations and permits; coordinating with the cemetery, crematory, or other third parties. In addition, this fee includes a proportionate share of our basic overhead costs.

This fee for our basic services and overhead will be added to the total cost of the funeral arrangements you select. (This fee is already included in our charges for direct cremations, immediate burials, and forwarding or receiving remains.)

Other Preparation and Care for Private Viewing $300.00
This includes necessary washing and disinfection, and preparation of body for viewing on dressing table or in the alternative container.

EMBALMING: Not available

USE OF FACILITIES, EQUIPMENT, AND STAFF:

Private Viewing (1 hour) $220.00

Graveside Service for interment (includes Sedan) $350.00

Use of facilities, equipment, or staff for funeral ceremony: Not Available

Use of facilities, equipment, or staff for memorial service: Not Available

AUTOMOTIVE EQUIPMENT:

Vehicle for Transfer of Cremains to Cemetery $155.00

Transfer of remains to funeral home: Included in the flat fee of Direct Cremation

Hearse: Not available

SPECIAL SERVICES:

Direct Cremation $1,495.00
Our packaged charge for direct cremation (without ceremony) includes: basic services of funeral director and staff, a proportionate share of overhead costs, removal of remains within 35 miles of the twin cities, transportation to crematory, necessary authorizations, minimum cremation container, medical examiner fees, and the crematory fee.

If you want to arrange a cremation, you can use an alternative container. MN Statute 149a does not require you to purchase a casket for cremation. A cremation container is a combustible, closed container resistant to the leakage of bodily fluids, that encase the body and can be made of materials like fiberboard or composite materials (with or without an outside covering). The container we provide, at no cost to you and included in the packaged price is cardboard.

A. Direct Cremation with container provided by purchaser $1,495.00
B. Direct Cremation with a cardboard container $1,495.00

Forwarding of remains to another funeral establishment: Not available

Receiving of remains from another funeral establishment: Not available

Immediate burial of an uncremated body: Not available

MERCHANDISE:

Cremation Urns $55.00 to $600.00
A complete price list is provided on the "Urn Price List" tab

Caskets: Not available

Outer burial containers: Not available

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires you have an opportunity to see our prices before you begin the actual Arrangement Process. After reading this page please scroll to the bottom and check the acknowledgement square before clicking the next button.

The goods and services shown below are those we can provide for our customers. You may choose only the items you desire. However, any funeral arrangements you select will include a charge for basic services and overhead. If legal or other requirements mean you must buy items you did not specifically ask for, we will explain the reason in writing on the statement we provide describing the funeral goods and services you selected.

Urn Container Price List

Effective July 1, 2021

Understanding of the Right and Duty to Control the Final Disposition of the Deceased

Minnesota Stat. § 149A.80 subd. 2 sets forth the individuals who have the right and duty to control the final disposition of a decedent's remains. The individual(s) who have a right and duty to control the final disposition of a decedent's remains are, in descending order:

• The person or persons appointed by the decedent IF the decedent has properly executed an advance directive under Minn. Stat. §149A.80 subd. 1;
• current and legal spouse of the decedent;
• the adult child of the decedent, who must certify that they represent the wishes of the majority of the adult children and have no actual knowledge of an objection to the contrary regarding the final disposition by any adult child of the decedent;
• the surviving parent or parents of the decedent, each having equal authority;
• the adult sibling of the decedent, who must certify that they represent the wishes of the majority of the adult siblings and have no actual knowledge of an objection to the contrary regarding the final disposition by any adult sibling of the decedent;
• the adult grandchild or the majority of the adult grandchildren of the decedent, provided that, in the absence of actual knowledge to the contrary that the adult grandchild or grandchildren represent they are the only grandchild or grandchildren reasonably available to control the final disposition of the decedent;
• the grandparent or grandparents of the decedent, each having equal authority;
• the adult nieces and nephews of the decedent, provided that, in the absence of actual knowledge to the contrary that the adult nieces and nephews represent they are the only nieces and nephews reasonably available to control the final disposition of the decedent;
• the person(s) who were acting as the guardians of the decedent who also had legal authority to make health care decisions for the decedent at the time of death;
• an adult who exhibited special care and concern for the decedent;
• the person(s) respectively in the next degree of kinship in the order named by law to inherit the estate of the decedent;
• the appropriate public court or authority, as required by law.

The person(s) who are of the highest level in this order have the right and duty to control the final disposition of the decedent.

Please certify that the person making these arrangements is the person with the paramount right and duty to do so:

Crematory Authorization Form

Basic Information on the Deceased

This information will be used to complete a Minnesota State Death Certificate. There are two types of Death Certificates: Fact of Death and Cause of Death. The only thing one needs a Cause of Death Certificate for is life insurance claims. Everything else one would need a death certificate for can be accomplished with the Fact of Death Certificate.

Below is a list of some of the places that will ask for a Fact of Death Certificate:
Banks
Brokerage Houses
Real Estate Title transfers
Title transfer of cars, boats, motorcycles, et cetra
Canceling of contracts such as Cell phones, cable, and internet
Mutual funds
Probate court

With the filling of the vital statistic information, the Social Security Administration will also be notified and social security benefits will be adjusted accordingly.

Please fill out every blank in this form it is all information required by Federal or State Statute.