Funeral Homes sells Wakes &Funerals They make very little money on cremation. You can pre plan cremation with them but your grieving loved ones will be upsold to a Wake, thats just what they do. The joker who wrote the article is a shill for Funeral Parlors . Both my parents had Neptune Plans, as I do, they sold us nothing at the time of death. They were a blessing at a difficult time.