Funeral expense includes the burial lot, perpetual care, and what else?

• A. Only funeral service costs
• B. Costs of funeral home administration
• C. Reasonable funeral expenses, interment or disposition of the body, burial lot, monumental work, and perpetual care
• D. None of the above

Answer: (C)

Funeral expenses in estate matters include several related costs, not just the obvious service charges. The full set covers five elements: reasonable funeral expenses (the standard charges from the funeral director and related services), interment or disposition of the body (burial or cremation), the burial lot (the cemetery plot), monumental work (headstones or memorials), and perpetual care (the ongoing maintenance fund for the cemetery). This broader definition explains why the correct choice lists all of these components together. If you focus only on funeral service costs, you miss the other essential parts that the statute treats as funeral expenses; while funeral home administration is included within reasonable funeral expenses, it alone doesn’t capture the entire category. None of the above isn’t correct because the full set is indeed defined.