Pacific Interment Service

Not only were they kind during the most difficult time, but my grandmother looked beautiful after their preparation. We called several places in SF, but we had access to limited funds. The staff here was compassionate

Kindest people. Very good value. Professional, but with a caring heart. My family experienced a unforeseen tragic passing of a loved one. They took on all the logistics part of it, removing the stress from that part of laying someone down to rest. It allowed us to continue focusing on just grieving. Bless my heart, that they were part of my journey during this unfortunate event in family’s life.

Sorry, if you have to use Unilocal to figure this one out, but PIS is the most honest and affordable mortuary service. I know unfortunately from experience, 2 years ago my mother in-​law passed away. While she passed in peace at home, it was hard to figure out what to do, we went to an local «family» mortuary and while they were nice and professional their prices were very inflated compared to PIS.
This year my father in-​law passed at hospital, which gave us a little more time to shop around. Pacific interment is the best value in SF. For example you can buy a coffin at Costco for about $ 950. You pay no extra charges when using PIS if you provide your own coffin. Their basic funeral fee is about $ 400. (It is all online if you want to check their prices)
Family mortuaries on the other hand charge you $ 2,000 + for basic funeral service if provide a coffin on your own. That charge is just for arranging the funeral. It does not include any of the logistics, like the transfer of the body, hearses, limos, dressing of the body or other variables. They will try to sell you a value menu where they bundle all the itemized service at a discount price, but instead of paying $ 950 for the exact same Costco coffin the family mortuary charges $ 4000 and then bundles all the logistic items into a price near the $ 2000 for the basic charge that included nothing.
So using a family mortuary you will be paying a lot more than you need to do. The PIS staff is professional and kind, and they will not pressure you to buy anything, in fact they will let you know what is needed and what is just a way to stuff a morticians pocket. They also sell the same Costco coffin for about $ 1200 bucks, but will not charge you extra if you buy it directly from Costco. We did end up buying a coffin from CIS, as my wife wanted a wooden one and not the metal Costco one. Was more expensive but she felt it was best for her dad.

No one ever wants to think about the death of a loved one, but the last thing you want is for the practical decisions to be made even more overwhelming. I had contacted another highly reviewed cremation service first as my Mom wanted to be cremated and got this horrible feeling and impression. Not only could I not get just a straightforward quote, I felt like this other company was trying to up sell me on the phone, from the type of urn they wanted me to pick to the ‘use of their staff’, etc, where they were giving me line item after line item and then telling I needed to file legal papers, etc. As if you want to deal with a sales pitch when you’re grieving or someone else making things more complicated than you could deal with at the moment. I hung up with the other company and contacted Pacific Interment and it was like night and day. When I asked about costs on the phone for a basic cremation (as my Mom wanted her ashes scattered), Mary Ann immediately gave me a price and told me that included everything but the death certificates as that was a county charge and gave me a run down on what ‘everything’ meant, so I knew nothing was getting left out. There is an additional charge (2%) to use a credit card, which they tell you upfront too, but it was still significantly cheaper than the other company, plus I didn’t get that nauseous feeling like I did from that other company that made me feel like they were trying to take advantage of my grief. The forms on the website were easy to fill out and when I had questions on what to fill out on certain forms and sent an email, Zia and Thomas replied quickly, so I was able to get all the paperwork done in probably less than an hour. PI also filed all the paperwork for me and all in all, removed the stress and worry from that task. If you do ever need a company to help you with the death of a loved one, you can put your trust in Pacific Interment to handle your needs with care, honesty and confidence.

This was the most difficult thing that I have yet to experience.
This establishment dealt with this ordeal in a gentle and respectful manner.
I never felt pressured or agitated and the people who claimed my father’s body did so with the uppermost humanity and respect.
I hope you don’t have to go through this. That saying, if nature plays out the way it seems to, you just might.
It is not easy.
These people will make a very difficult situation just that much less difficult.