Cremation Services in Berwyn, IL

Direct cremation starts at $997 and includes transportation from a hospital, climate-controlled holding, all filings and an individual cremation. Required additions bring a typical hospital-death total with four certified death certificates to $1,500.96: the $200 county permit, $40 for the first certificate and $20 for each additional, a $160 container, a $25 temporary urn and $18.96 tax. From a nursing center or home, add $295.

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office issues the permit, since Berwyn is in Cook County. That office reviews the circumstances of every death before a cremation, which is a standard step and not a sign that anything is wrong. Its fee is included in our $200 county permit charge, and our staff handle the filing from start to finish.

Most cremations finish within 5 to 10 business days. The clock really starts when the family signs the authorization, then depends on how quickly the Medical Examiner’s Office issues the permit and the physician signs the death certificate. If relatives are traveling in for a gathering, optional expedited cremation is available for $150, and we will give you a realistic date.

No. Families in Berwyn can arrange everything online in under 15 minutes, or by phone with our team at any hour. There is no extra cost for arranging from home. If you would like to meet face to face, you are welcome at one of our offices in Evanston, Northbrook, Naperville or Chicago’s Irving Park neighborhood, and we will set a time that suits you.

Water cremation uses water instead of flame, and the result is returned to your family as cremated remains, just as with flame cremation. Families who choose it often like that it is easier on the environment, and it typically gives back about 20% more cremated remains. It starts at $1,897, with a typical total of $2,400.96 after a hospital death with four certificates and the standard required items.

For a sudden death at home with no hospice involved, call 911 first. Police notify the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, which decides whether your loved one needs to be examined. If they do, the Medical Examiner’s Office brings your loved one into its care first. Once it releases them, we take over, and you can call us at any point to start the paperwork.

You can keep them at home, bury them in a cemetery plot or place them in a columbarium niche. A cemetery scattering garden is another choice, and private property is allowed with the owner’s consent. Public parks, forest preserves and waterways need permission from the agency that manages them before anyone scatters there.

Tell her nurse that Caring Cremations will be handling arrangements. MacNeal is in Berwyn, so the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office issues the permit, and the death is recorded locally by the Berwyn Public Health District. The hospital will call us when she can be released, and a standard hospital transfer usually carries no removal charge.