How Much Is a Funeral

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Simplicity Funeral & Cremation Care

Darien, DuPage County, IL

A funeral home.

Posted April 1, 2021 Checked August 24, 2026

This list is dated April 1, 2021; prices have probably changed since. Ask the funeral home.

Read this home's price list

1210 Darien Path Way, 60561, Darien, IL

From this home's state license record.

Direct cremation

$1,395

The middle price in Illinois is $3,210.

This is the price this home posts for this package, as one total.

How this adds up
"Direct cremation with a cardboard container"$1,395
Sum$1,395

This covers basic services of funeral director and staff, transfer of remains from place of death, refrigeration, transfer to the crematory, cremation permit, cardboard cremation container and the cremation fee. It does not cover certified copies of the death certificate, which are priced one at a time. The permit for the disposition is already in this price. This home says so on its own price list, so there is nothing to add for it. Any sales tax is approximate, so ask the funeral home for the exact amount.

What this home's price covers

  • basic services of funeral director and staff
  • transfer of remains from place of death
  • refrigeration
  • transfer to the crematory
  • cremation permit
  • cardboard cremation container
  • the cremation fee

What this home's price does not cover

  • certified copies of the death certificate, which are priced one at a time

This price is the home's own package, the one it calls "Direct cremation with a cardboard container".

The median across Illinois is $3,210, from 71 posted price lists we have read.

Cremation with service

We could not confirm a price for this service from this home's price list, dated April 1, 2021, so please check the list itself or ask them directly.

Immediate burial

We could not confirm a price for this service from this home's price list, dated April 1, 2021, so please check the list itself or ask them directly.

Burial with graveside service

We could not confirm a price for this service from this home's price list, dated April 1, 2021, so please check the list itself or ask them directly.

Traditional funeral service

We could not confirm a price for this service from this home's price list, dated April 1, 2021, so please check the list itself or ask them directly.

1 other package this home posts

Memorial Package

$295

This covers memorial Package.

How this adds up
"Memorial Package"$295
Sum$295

It does not cover what this package covers. Any sales tax is approximate, so ask the funeral home for the exact amount.

What this home's price covers

  • memorial Package

What this home's price does not cover

  • what this package covers
These figures are ballparks for comparing homes, not quotes.

These figures are assembled from this home's own posted price list, and each one is rounded up to the next $5. Treat them as a way to compare homes, not as a quote. Only the funeral home can quote you.

Certified copies of the death certificate

This home's price list does not show a price for a certified copy of the death certificate, and we have no verified government fee for this place, so please ask the funeral home or the registrar in the county where the death happened what one copy costs.

Tax is always approximate. Ask the funeral home for the exact amount.

Where to look next

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