If we have no burial insurance, how am I going to be able to bury my mom when the time comes?

In Massachusetts undertakers are required to take an oath that they will bury indigent people free if the person has no insurance or assets. Check out your state laws.. when my mother passed she had no insurance and no assets and her funeral was free. The funeral home tried to bully me but I pushed back and found I was right.

Thanks, all who mentioned MedCure. I hadn't heard of it, and will look into it. I am 85, and borrowed money to have my husband's body cremated. I'm currently paying monthly installments for my own cremation. I will see what MedCure offers as an alternative for me.

It is true that Massachusetts does bury the indigent for free...but please note that there is a big difference between a free burial and a free funeral. There is no free funeral.

When MA buries the indigent for free, it happens when they deem it will happen (often weeks or months after the death) and where it will happen (any cemetery). There is NO wake, NO funeral mass, NO flowers, NO bells and whistles...so no, you don't get a free funeral...you get a free simple casket and a plot (which is more than most states do, but is NOT a free funeral)

Angel

Please talk to your hospice chaplain or social worker, our hospice group referred us to a local funeral home that would do cremation for about half the price of most places.

Ragex007's advice sounds useful. I didn't know about this possibility when my husband died in 2014, and borrowed money for his cremation.

my dad don't want me to get burial insurance on him how can I get it anyway I wanna make sure he's covered.

I live in Seattle, WA and my mother lives in Concord, NC. Can I pay for burial insurance for her when she lives in another state?

What can I do in sc to bury my wife. No insurance and we r both on disability. Help!!

Hopelives43 please contact this non-profit and they will have contacts in your area. I used their guidebook "before I go...." years ago to start the elder conversations with my mother and her husband. funerals.org/   I wish to be cremated or turned into a tree (biossurn) but if I wanted the casket I'd go with the build your own kit off Amazon and ask people to write messages on it for me.