DIY Funerals

Here at the Kapiti Coast Funeral Home we don’t mind talking DIY, we can help you do some, all, or any of the parts of a funeral, we understand it can get confusing and that is why it helps to have some help.

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DIY Funeral Seminar – Video 1

Welcome everyone, it’s nice to see you all here on a nice cold Sunday afternoon, but it’s nice and warm in here, and it’s warmer because of your company. My name’s Andrew Malcolm and I’m speaking into this microphone because we are recording today. I’ve had a number of people from out of town who have asked for a recording

Key points regarding the approach to DIY funerals include: Video 2
*Cost Considerations:** DIY projects are not always more cost-effective. For example, building a casket can be more expensive than purchasing a simple one from a funeral home. Similarly, printing service brochures independently can sometimes cost more than utilizing the funeral home’s in-house, low-cost services…

It’s not about doing it all yourself

DIY funerals are often seen as doing everything yourselves, which can be quite daunting, yes, it would certainly keep the costs down, however, funerals take a lot of emotional and practical skill and it is not something most people can pull off well, and let’s face it, you only get one shot at it!

The most common DIY is therefore to do the parts of the funeral which will empower you, fulfil you, and not do the ones that exhaust you and cause undue stress. With proper guidance doing parts of DIY funerals can be very fulfilling and we as Funeral Directors can act as guides and backup for this.

DIY Funerals for a small gathering, say 20 people at home, can work well as it means using your own venue and equipment.

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Here we have a flexable price structure

Andrew discusses what we can do to help you with DIY funerals, what’s possible and what’s not, we just want to help you and save you money, our flexible price structure helps with that, most corporates just have set fees, our are charged on services rendered

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BYO – We can help keep cost down

I love working with families who wish to do parts of the Funeral themselves, and feel this can be a way of keeping the costs down for them, but also can be a very healing way to participate in the whole process without the stress of having to ‘do it all’.  

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Let’s Make Things Happen

Every year I do a series of articles about how to save money on Funeral Costs, and this time my focus is on DIY Funerals being all of, or parts of, the funeral process.  Many of the corporately owned Funeral Homes have set fees, which can make good business sense, but when client families do parts of the funeral themselves they often expect to pay less, but this is not always so.  Kapiti Coast Funeral Home is the only locally owned and non-corporate Funeral Home on the Kapiti Coast, and so along with our competitive ‘set fees’ we also have a ‘Professional Fee calculation” system reflecting only the work we do for DIY funerals.  This ‘Professional Fee calculation’ works well, as some families want to do almost all of the funeral themselves, and some just want to do a little themselves knowing there needs to be a mental health balance to what families can cope with. READ MORE