Direct cremation in Plano — $1,750
Plano sits about twelve miles north of our Greenville Avenue office, an easy run up US-75 or the Dallas North Tollway. For most Plano addresses a transfer team is with you well inside the hour.
From a Plano hospital
The major receiving hospitals in the city include Texas Health Presbyterian Plano on Coit Road, Medical City Plano on Coit at the President George Bush Turnpike, and Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in west Plano. Each holds a decedent in its morgue until a named provider comes, and none of them will rush you.
Tell the nurse or the decedent affairs office that you have chosen us, give them our number, and call. We arrange the release with the hospital directly, so you are not left coordinating paperwork between two offices.
The Collin County paperwork
Plano is in Collin County. The death certificate must be signed by the attending physician or hospice medical director and filed with Texas Vital Statistics before the county issues the cremation permit. Texas also requires a 48-hour wait after death before any cremation.
If a death is unattended or unexpected, it is referred to the Collin County Medical Examiner in McKinney, who decides whether an autopsy is needed and releases your loved one when finished. That release is the one step no provider can speed up. Certified copies of the death certificate cost $21 for the first and $4 for each additional, passed through at cost.
Across the city
We transfer from every part of Plano — the Legacy business district and the Shops at Legacy in the north, downtown and old east Plano, and the newer neighborhoods out toward the Sam Rayburn Tollway. Being based to the south puts us closest to the bottom of the city, but the $1,750 is identical wherever in Plano you are.
How long it takes, and what Collin County decides
The price does not change from one city to the next — direct cremation is $1,750 whether the transfer starts in Plano or on our own street. What does change is the county. Collin County runs its own death-certificate counter and its own permit process, and it is the county that decides whether a death goes to a medical examiner or to a justice of the peace. That single fact is what moves a cremation timeline by days.
Everything else is fixed by state law rather than by us or by Collin County. Texas forbids a cremation earlier than 48 hours after death unless the wait is waived, and nothing can begin until the person with the legal right to control disposition has signed. Most families here see ashes returned within one to two weeks of the first call.
The same price, the whole metroplex
Plano sits inside the five counties we cover within 50 miles of Dallas. The transfer is included wherever you are inside it. See what the $1,750 includes, the full service area, or how to reach us.
Plano questions
How much is direct cremation in Plano?
It is $1,750, all-inclusive, anywhere in Plano. That covers transfer, refrigerated care, the container, the crematory fee, permits, the death-certificate filing, and a standard urn.
How fast can you reach a Plano hospital?
Usually inside an hour for most Plano addresses, and up to 90 minutes at the far northern edge. We come up US-75 or the Dallas North Tollway from north Dallas.
Which county handles the paperwork for Plano?
Collin County. We file the death certificate with Texas Vital Statistics and obtain the cremation permit from the county. An unattended death is referred to the Collin County Medical Examiner in McKinney.
Calling from Plano?
A person answers, at any hour. Tell us where your loved one is and we will start from there.