But the main reason, as you might expect, is cost. Cremation is cheaper than burial. The average cost of a funeral today is about $6,500, including the typical $2,000-or-more cost of a casket. Add a burial vault, and the average jumps to around $7,700. A cremation, by contrast, typically costs a third of those amounts, or less. In a tough economy like the current one, cost counts â a lot.
LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST. noun. The definition of a proclamation is an announcement, or something being officially announced. An example of a proclamation is a broadcasting of the announcement of a baby born to a member of the British royal family.
WRIT OF PROCLAMATION. Engl. practice. A writ which issues, at the same time with the exigi facias by which the sheriff is commanded to make proclamations in the statute prescribed. When it is not directed to the same sheriff as the writ of exigi facias is, it is called a foreign writ of proclamation. --b--.