Funeral Service

Description

A funeral service where your person is present, providing family and friends with an opportunity to come together, remember their life and say goodbye.

One of our lovely, experienced celebrants is ready to discuss your individual needs and help create a service that suits you and honours the life of your person.

Funeral services are most commonly held at a graveside, but can also take place at a private residence or other venue where your person is present.

Includes

• Professional celebrant
• Individual planning and discussion with the celebrant
• Display Table
• Professional Audio System

Related

• Memorial Service
• Celebrant

Memorial Service

Description

A memorial service held after the death of your person, providing family and friends with an opportunity to come together, remember their life and say goodbye.

One of our lovely, experienced celebrants is ready to discuss your individual needs and help create a service that suits you and honours the life of your person.

Includes

• Professional celebrant
• Individual planning and discussion with the celebrant
• Display Table
• Professional Audio System

Related

• Funeral Service
• Celebrant

Rest Professional Fee

Description

Our professional fee covers the time, expertise and personal support required to care for your family from the moment you contact us until all arrangements have been completed.

This fee is clearly shown as its own item so families understand exactly what they are paying for.

Includes

• Personal arrangements
• Coordination & Bookings
• Family support
• Registration of death with state Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages
• Official Death Certificate (inc. postage)
• Administration

Every funeral is different. Rather than hiding costs inside fixed packages, we separate our professional fee from other services. The fee reflects the level of planning, coordination and responsibility we take on for your family. If you’re arranging a simple direct cremation, our role is very different to coordinating a large celebration of life involving multiple suppliers, a venue, flowers, printed booklets and live streaming. By charging this way, you only pay for the professional support you actually need.

Care & Administration	$850
Funeral Attendance & Coordination	$1,200
Full Funeral Arrangement	$1,400

Transport

Description

Transport is the care and movement of your person from the place where they are being cared for into our care, and the onward journey to a cemetery or crematorium.

The price depends on where your person is being collected from.

Hospital

Transport from a hospital into our care, as well as the onward journey to a cemetery or crematorium.

Hospital collections generally don’t need to happen immediately and, in many cases, can’t happen immediately. Before we can collect, we need to ensure the necessary medical paperwork has been completed, including the Form 9 – Cause of Death Certificate.

This means there is usually no need for a family to feel rushed into arranging collection from a hospital. We can work with the hospital and the medical practitioner to make sure everything that needs to be in place is ready before your person is brought into our care.

Aged Care

Transport from an aged care facility into our care, as well as the onward journey to a cemetery or crematorium.

Aged care collections are generally arranged relatively soon after death. This isn’t because there is a legal requirement to collect immediately, but because many aged care facilities don’t have a morgue or dedicated space for keeping someone who has died.

A death during the night, for example, doesn’t necessarily mean that collection needs to happen at 2am. In most circumstances, collection can wait until the morning and be arranged around 6–8am.

Air conditioning can generally provide a useful amount of time for a person to remain where they are while arrangements are being made. There can also be circumstances where additional cooling is particularly helpful. Our cooling plates can provide temporary cooling where a family needs more time to get to the facility, or where circumstances such as flooding or other disruption prevent normal collection.

Private Residence

Transport from a private residence into our care, as well as the onward journey to a cemetery or crematorium.

Private residence collections cost more because they generally require two team members to attend. They can also happen at any time of day or night, and unlike a hospital or aged care collection, we may need to respond when the call comes rather than fitting the collection into the operating schedule of a facility.

In most circumstances, Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) will have attended first and provided a Life Extinct form before we can collect your person.

There is also something important that families should know: there is no legal time limit requiring you to call a funeral director or undertaker after someone dies.

You may hear someone say, “You need to call a funeral director now.” That’s not necessarily the case. You don’t have to engage a funeral director or undertaker simply because someone has died. It is possible, although uncommon, for a family to make their own arrangements and manage the funeral process themselves.

What matters is that the necessary legal and practical requirements are met. Who you ask to help you is your choice.

Includes

• Collection from the selected location
• Transport into our care
• Onward transport to a cemetery or crematorium
• Transport at a time that works in with our schedule and the hospital or facility
• For a private residence, collection at the soonest possible time after Queensland Ambulance Services have provided a Life Extinct form

Transport (Hospital)	$600
Transport (Aged Care)	$600
Transport (Residence)	$800

Cremation Fees (Warrill Park)

Description

Cost of using our cremation partner at Eco Memorial Park.

Why it’s needed

Includes

• Professional services
• Application
• Cremation
• Ashes
• Ashes prepared in Standard Ashes Container

Cremation Fees (Warrill Park)

Description

Cost of using our cremation partner at Warrill Park.

Why it’s needed

Public health. A body left unmanaged begins to decompose within hours, and decomposition releases bacteria and gases that pose a genuine health risk to the living, especially in close-contact settings. Every society has needed some method of final disposition for this reason alone, and cremation deals with it completely and quickly by removing the organic material entirely rather than allowing gradual breakdown.

Legal and civic necessity. In Queensland, disposal isn’t optional. A body must be either buried or cremated (including alkaline hydrolysis), it’s simply not lawful to keep a body indefinitely or handle it informally. Cremation offers councils and communities a permanent, land-independent way to meet that legal obligation.

Land and space. This is where cremation’s rationale diverges most from burial’s. Burial requires ongoing physical space, in perpetuity. As populations grow and burial grounds fill, cremation offers a way to honour and finalise a death without committing land indefinitely. This is one of the strongest practical drivers behind cremation’s rising uptake in Australia.

Certainty and finality. Cremation reduces the body to an inert, stable form that carries no ongoing biological risk and requires no maintenance. For many families, that finality itself is part of what they’re seeking, nothing left to decay, nothing left to manage.

Emotional and psychological closure. Beyond the practical, humans have always marked death with a deliberate act, not just an outcome. The heat and transformation of cremation gives many people a concrete, witnessed process to point to, a discrete moment where the person becomes something to carry forward, whether that’s ashes scattered somewhere meaningful or kept close.

Flexibility for the family. Because cremated remains are portable and don’t require a fixed plot, cremation gives families room to decide later, or never decide fully, what happens next. That flexibility is itself part of why people choose it.

Includes

• Professional services
• Application
• Cremation
• Ashes prepared in Standard Ashes Container

Related

• Crematorium
• Direct Cremation
• Permission to Cremate (Form 4)
• Application for Permission to Cremate (Form 1)

Cremation Permission Fee

Description

The fee for the independent doctor to examine your person and provide the required permission for cremation.

Before a cremation can take place, an independent doctor must examine the deceased person and be satisfied that the requirements for cremation have been met. The doctor then provides the required Permission to Cremate (Form 4).

Includes

• Independent doctor’s examination
• Permission to Cremate (Form 4)
• GST

Related

• Cremation
• Permission to Cremate (Form 4)

Burial Fees at Cost

Description

Cemetery fees associated with arranging a burial, passed on to you at cost.

Depending on the cemetery and the circumstances of the burial, these may include the interment fee, reservation fee and plaque fee. Cemetery fees vary between locations, and not all fees apply to every burial.

We will confirm the applicable cemetery fees with you as part of arranging the burial.

Includes

• Cemetery interment fee, where applicable
• Grave or plot reservation fee, where applicable
• Plaque fee, where applicable
• GST

Related

• Cemetery Interment Fee
• Reservation Fee
• Plaque Fee
• Burial

Cemetery Interment Fee

Description

The fee charged by the cemetery for the interment of your person.

Cemetery fees vary depending on the cemetery, location and circumstances of the interment. We will confirm the applicable fee with you as part of arranging the burial.

Includes

• Cemetery interment fee

Related

• Cemetery
• Burial

Plaque Fee

Description

A fee for the memorial plaque required for some lawn cemetery plots and graves.

Plaque requirements and fees vary between cemeteries. Some cemeteries include the cost of the plaque within their interment or plot fees, while others charge it separately. We will confirm whether a plaque fee applies, and the amount, when arranging the burial with the relevant cemetery.

Includes

• Cemetery plaque, where required

Related

• Cemetery
• Burial

Reservation Fee

Description

A fee charged by the cemetery to reserve a plot or grave.

A reservation may be required when arranging a new burial in the near future, or when a family wishes to reserve a grave for use at a later date. The fee is payable regardless of when the grave is intended to be used.

Includes

• Cemetery plot or grave reservation

Related

• Cemetery
• Burial

Heritage Alder

Description

An alder timber casket with a natural finish. Finished with two tone long bar wood handles and natural calico lined with no nails or screws.

Features

• Two tone long bar wood handles
• Natural calico lined with no nails or screws

Sizes

Standard

External: 2020 × 670 × 390 mm Internal: 1955 × 530 × 340 mm Weight: 38 kg Price: $2,597

Natural Alder

Description

A alder casket with a natural finish. Finished with long bar wood handles and natural calico lined with no nail or screws.

Features

• Long bar wood handles
• Natural calico lined with no nail or screws

Sizes

Standard

External: 2003 × 710 × 375 mm Internal: 1955 × 530 × 330 mm Weight: 38 kg Price: $2,447

Daisybox Natural

Description

A simple, dignified cardboard casket designed as an affordable alternative to traditional coffins and caskets. Fitted with natural coir/jute rope handles.

Features

• Natural coir/jute rope handles

Sizes

Standard

External: 1945 × 555 × 345 mm Internal: 1905 × 535 × 330 mm Weight: 6 kg Price: $400

Daisybox White

Description

A simple, dignified cardboard casket designed as an affordable alternative to traditional coffins and caskets. Fitted with natural coir/jute rope handles.

Features

• Natural coir/jute rope handles

Sizes

Standard

External: 1945 × 555 × 345 mm Internal: 1905 × 535 × 330 mm Weight: 6 kg Price: $400

Kubu Wicker

Description

A kubu rattan casket with a natural finish. Finished with hand weaved, calico lined interior and blanket and natural sugar cane filled pillow.

Features

• Hand weaved
• Calico lined interior and blanket
• Natural sugar cane filled pillow

Sizes

Standard

External: 2000 × 780 × 440 mm Internal: 1835 × 600 × 340 mm Weight: 30 kg Price: $1,695

Natural Wicker

Description

A pandanus leaf casket with a natural finish. Finished with hand weaved, calico lined interior and blanket and natural sugar cane filled pillow.

Features

• Hand weaved
• Calico lined interior and blanket
• Natural sugar cane filled pillow

Sizes

Standard

External: 1940 × 800 × 430 mm Internal: 1870 × 610 × 335 mm Weight: 33 kg Price: $1,695

Baby

External: 690 × 430 × 215 mm Internal: 630 × 290 × 160 mm Weight: 3.5 kg Price: $700

Standard	$1,695
Baby	$700

White Wicker

Description

A rattan casket with a white finish. Finished with hand weaved, calico lined interior and blanket and natural sugar cane filled pillow.

Features

• Hand weaved
• Calico lined interior and blanket
• Natural sugar cane filled pillow

Sizes

Standard

External: 1940 × 800 × 430 mm Internal: 1870 × 610 × 335 mm Weight: 27 kg Price: $1,695

Baby

External: 690 × 430 × 215 mm Internal: 630 × 290 × 160 mm Weight: 3 kg Price: $700

Standard	$1,695
Baby	$700

Classic Oak

Description

A red oak coffin with a satin natural finish. Finished with bronze fixtures, metal/wood swing bar handles and satin lining with pillow.

Features

• Bronze fixtures
• Metal/wood swing bar handles
• Satin lining with pillow

Sizes

Standard

External: 2130 × 620 × 390 mm Internal: 1950 × 530 × 350 mm Weight: 47 kg Price: $2,247

Oversize 1

External: 2140 × 700 × 410 mm Internal: 2030 × 620 × 380 mm Weight: 56 kg Price: $2,447

Standard	$2,247
Oversize 1	$2,447

Classic Pine

Description

A radiata pine coffin with a satin pine finish. Finished with satin lining with pillow and blanket, silver fixtures and metal/wood swing bar handles.

Features

• Satin lining with pillow and blanket
• Silver fixtures
• Metal/wood swing bar handles

Sizes

Standard

External: 2005 × 625 × 465 mm Internal: 1920 × 540 × 365 mm Weight: 42 kg Price: $2,447

Oversize 1

External: 2140 × 720 × 430 mm Internal: 2050 × 630 × 385 mm Weight: 47.5 kg Price: $2,647

Standard	$2,447
Oversize 1	$2,647

Description

Design and printing of a simple four-page funeral booklet.

The booklet is made from one A4 sheet folded in half, creating four A5 faces. We design the booklet using the information, photographs and preferences you provide, then arrange printing for the agreed number of copies.

Pricing

The price includes design and printing.

Design and approval

There is no fixed number of design revisions. The aim is to work with you to get the booklet right while keeping everything on schedule.

Because these booklets are usually needed for the funeral, the important consideration is the printing deadline rather than a set number of revisions.

We will provide a proof for you to check before the booklet is sent to print.

Printing deadline

The usual cut-off for booklet printing is 3 business days before the funeral.

This gives enough time for the booklet to be finalised, approved, printed and delivered.

If information or changes are received after the usual cut-off, we will do our best to accommodate them, but we cannot guarantee that printed booklets will be ready for the funeral.

Includes

• Booklet design
• One four-page A5 booklet
• Printing of the selected quantity
• Proof for approval before printing
• GST

20 Booklets	$220
50 Booklets	$440
100 Booklets	$550
150 Booklets	$660
300 Booklets	$750

Flowers

Description

Flowers can be a beautiful way to honour your person and add a personal touch to their farewell.

We can arrange flowers on your behalf, with options ranging from a simple native spray to a more traditional floral arrangement. We can also discuss other arrangements if you have something particular in mind.

Options

Native Spray — $200

A natural native flower spray from Hockstead Plantation.

Floral Arrangement — approximately $300

A more traditional floral arrangement from Lac & Barrel, with the final price depending on the flowers and arrangement selected.

Includes

• Flowers arranged on your behalf
• Delivery to the funeral service, where applicable
• GST

Native Spray	$200
Floral Arrangement	$300

Official Death Certificate

Description

An official copy of the death certificate issued by the Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

We can arrange the certificate on your behalf as part of the death registration process.

Includes

• Official death certificate
• GST not applicable

Photographic Tribute

Description

A thoughtfully prepared photographic tribute, approximately 3–6 minutes in duration, created to tell something of your person’s life through photographs and music.

Rather than simply displaying photographs to a piece of music, we carefully arrange and time the images to create a considered tribute. Where possible, we use the information you provide to give the photographs context and create a natural sense of story and progression.

We work with the photographs, music and information available to us, and will always do our best to create something personal and meaningful, even when we did not know your person ourselves.

What we need from you

Please provide your photographs and choice of music at least 3 days before the service. This gives us the time needed to prepare, review and craft the tribute properly.

Includes

• Preparation of a 3–6 minute photographic tribute
• Thoughtful sequencing and timing of photographs
• Choice of music
• Professional preparation for presentation at the service
• GST