General Price List
effective April 3, 2023; prices subject to change
Our mission is to provide services that enable our clients to have funeral services that meet their needs as mourners.
Our specialty is home-based dying and death care and natural burial. We are here to help everyone have a meaningful death & dying experience in accordance with their own personal values and wishes.
Basic service fee for funeral director, staff, and overhead: $100
Below is a menu of the services we can provide to our customers, from which you can select those that best meet your needs.
Free half-hour consultations are available to help you determine which services are right for your situation.
Please note that any service you select will include the charge for our basic services and overhead. If legal or other requirements mean you must pay for services you did not specifically request, we will explain the reason in writing on your billing statement.
In the hope of limiting financial barriers, services are provided on a sliding scale of $100-350/hour. We ask that people pay what they reasonably can.
Many people come to end of life planning at a time when finances are difficult. Those who are able to pay at the higher end of the sliding scale help us to serve everyone. Thank you.
Menu of Services
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usually 3-5 hours, sliding scale
- guidance for family-led home funerals, natural burial, and burial on your property
- including loss after pregnancy, or of an infant or young child
Preparation for after-death body care, with information about:
- paperwork
- disposition options
- bathing, cooling, shrouding and/or casketing a body
- possible ceremony options
- Includes:
- discussion of available locations;
- how to arrange for transportation of the body to the gravesite;
- advice about ceremony
Preparation for a natural burial on private property.
- Includes
- guidance for creation of a family burial ground;
- proper siting of a home burial ground;
- sizing the grave;
- how to open and close the grave;
- information about paperwork;
- possible ceremony options.
usually 3-5 hours, sliding scale
- guidance for funeral-director-led home funerals, natural burial, and burial on your property
- including loss after pregnancy, or of an infant or young child
Support for after-death bodycare and logistics.
- option for funeral director to complete paperwork
- discussion of disposition options
- assistance with:
- bathing the body
- cooling the body
- shrouding and/or casketing the body
- assistance with creation of memorial ceremony
Support for a natural burial in a cemetery. Includes:
- advice about cemetery options;
- assistance arranging for transportation of the body to the gravesite;
- assistance with graveside ceremony
Support for a natural burial in a family cemetery. Includes:
- review of sites for a family burial ground;
- guidance for incorporating the cemetery;
- paperwork for home burial;
- planning how carry the body to the gravesite
- support with graveside ceremony
- Arrangements for direct cremation
- usually 1-2 hours
- crematory charge will be itemized separately in the Statement of Goods and Services Selected
- Arragements for immediate burial
- usually 1-2 hours
- Values-based planning for dying, funeral, and disposition in a cemetery or on your own property, including loss after pregnancy, or of an infant or young child
- usually 6 hours
- with the documentation of an advance directive: 10 hours, discounted to 8 hours billable
- Paperwork and permits for disposition
- usually 1 hour
- Body care workshops for home based death care
- 3 hours
- Siting a family cemetery on your property
- 2 hours
- Consulting on how to do deathwork without a funeral director
- 1 hour
- Assistance at your residence or another location for disposition of the body
- usually 2-3 hours
- Use of staff for a funeral ceremony
- assistance at your residence or another location to prepare the body after death
- remote (phone/Zoom) support for body preparation and/or disposition
- usually 2-3 hours
- Use of staff for a graveside service
- assistance at your residence or another location for disposition of the body
- remote (phone/Zoom) support for body preparation and/or disposition
- usually 2-3 hours
- Obituary writing
- 1 hour
- Review of an existing advance directive
- 1 hour
- Funeral, memorial or ceremony design:
- usually 1-4 hours
Values-based advance care planning in tandem with financial and insurance planning allows families and individuals to craft an effective, actionable, and funded plan to live well up to the end of life.
Includes:
- home-based bodycare for natural burial at home,
- how to work without a funeral director,
- how to create a family cemetery
- how to document your wishes so that your family or community is ready to follow them
5 hours, sliding scale
The Basic planning package involves two 1.5 hour sessions. This package includes time together and a written summary of each meeting; 3 hours of in-person work and 2 hours of consultant review and documentation. At the end of the process, you will have an outline of a narrative values summary and everything you need to complete the Vermont Ethics Network Advance Directive.
8 hours (discounted rate for package), sliding scale
Occurs over three 2 hour sessions and includes time together and a written summary of each meeting. Includes 6 hours of in-person work and 4 hours of consultant review and documentation. Premium planning provides you with a written narrative values summary and a completed advance directive.
As a package discount, these 10 hours of consulting are billed at the price of 8 hours.
We provide workshops, lectures, talks and activities for community groups and members about how to plan and prepare to die well in Vermont, including a natural burial.
Dying well is something that can only happen with the support of a community. Due to financial constraints and staffing shortfalls, our medical system is very limited in what it can provide at the end of life... even through hospice. Most people will need robust community support to be able to die at home. By offering our education to community groups, we help make sure everyone can benefit from this support. You can also learn about the avocations that exist to support the end of life, including death doulas and home funeral guides.
Have a drink, a yummy treat, and talk about death.
Facilitated by Michelle, the death cafe can be themed or it be an open discussion. Not a grief support group or a workshop., a death cafe is meant to provide a space for people to share their thoughts and feelings about topics related to death & dying.
- 3 hour workshop on how to legally care for the body without a funeral director
- including bathing, cooling, dressing, shrouding and/or casketing, and rituals
- A 2 hour visit to assess a family cemetery location
- A one hour review of required legal paperwork and how to file it yourself
- An agreement to provide remote support during body care with scheduling
- The Ending Well Workbook for Coming Into Relationship With Your Mortality
Green Mountain Funeral Alternatives General Price List, April 2023
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