About FuneralCosts

When someone dies, the family often has days, not weeks, to arrange and pay for a funeral, and almost no way to tell whether a quote is fair. Prices are rarely published, packages are bundled to look cheaper than they are, and grief is a poor time to negotiate. We built FuneralCosts to fix the information gap: to show what things actually cost before you are quoted, so a family can walk into a parlour knowing the numbers.

The site does two things. It publishes real South African price ranges for burials, cremations and tombstones, with the figures sourced and dated. And it lists funeral parlours across all nine provinces, searchable by city and suburb, with phone numbers so you can contact them directly. On top of that sit plain-English guides to funeral cover and the practical steps to take when someone dies.

We are a small South African team. Directory information is compiled from public sources and then checked; the way listings are handled is described in how we list parlours. The guides are written and reviewed by hand. If we have something wrong, we want to hear about it and fix it.