What To Do When Death Occurs

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Death Away From Home

When funeral arrangements must unexpectedly be made away from home, and family hearts are filled with mixed emotions, it is difficult to consider costs. If you want to limit costs, the best practice is to contact the funeral firm in the area where the funeral service and burial is to take place. We at George Funeral Home & Cremation Center can properly advise you on the best approach to having the deceased returned to the Aiken area in the most suitable manner.

We take charge from then on and make all the arrangements for conveying of the deceased to the local funeral home for embalming and preparation for return to Aiken. You only need contact us with some basic information and call us when you return to Aiken to set a time for an arrangement conference.

At George Funeral Home & Cremation Center, you pay only our professional service and normal casket prices as if the death occurred in Aiken plus transportation. We pay the rest. In most instances you can save up to twelve hundred dollars or more. Our receiving policy is unique in the funeral profession. It applies to every one of our standard full-service funerals.

We pay all normal out-of-town costs except cash advances and transportation. These normal charges include out-of-town removal service, standard embalming, transfer of remains to airport, outer transfer container, all documents for transfer and burial, out-of-town funeral facilities, professional staff and services. This means your only additional costs generally are transportation and transfer of remains to George Funeral Home from the airport.

If a family member dies while traveling outside the United States, the U.S. Embassy will come to your assistance. You should call us immediately when a death occurs abroad. We are well-versed in the procedures for returning the deceased to the United States

If the death occurs outside of the forty-eight contiguous states or your family has already engaged another funeral firm, George Funeral Home & Cremation Center  will apply liberal credits to services provided by others when selecting one of our complete full-service funerals. Our membership in the National Funeral Directors Association as well a memberships in other national organizations provide us with funeral service contacts world wide.