Cremation Services in Deerfield, 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. Delivery of the cremated remains to a Deerfield home in Lake County is free.

It depends on which side of the county line the death happened. For most of Deerfield, the Lake County Coroner’s Office issues the permit. South of Lake Cook Road, which is in Cook County, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office issues it. Either office’s fee is included in our $200 county permit charge, and we file with the right one for you.

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 coroner or Medical Examiner 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 Deerfield 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 Lake County Coroner, or the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office if the home is south of Lake Cook Road, and that office decides whether your loved one needs to be examined. If so, it 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 his nurse that Caring Cremations will be handling arrangements. Highland Park Hospital is in Lake County, so the Lake County Coroner’s Office issues the permit and certified copies come from the Lake County Clerk. The hospital will call us when he can be released, and a standard hospital transfer usually carries no removal charge.