# Crematory ownership

A term used when buying funeral home.

Whether the home owns a crematory or pays a third party for every cremation it sells.

Cremation is the share of the trade that keeps growing and it earns much less than a burial, so where the cremation itself happens decides whether the home keeps a margin or pays it out. A home with its own retort also sells that service to other homes. Ask whether there is a crematory on site, what a third-party cremation costs today, and how the cremation share has moved over five years.

Part of: Buying a Funeral Home (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-funeral-home)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-funeral-home/terms/crematory-ownership
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

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