aja8888
Moderator Emeritus
Lemming, our local crematorium has staff 24-7 so it’s literally one phone call and they pick you up for a third of the price of a funeral home.
When my wife passed at 10:00 PM on a Thursday night in the Skilled Nursing facility, I called Direct Cremation in my town as soon as I was told and they arranged for the medical examiner that night to declare her dead. They moved the body to their facility by midnight and I did all the paperwork online on their website. All done in less than three hours.