A home funeral can be as inexpensive as the cost of pine for a coffin (for a backyard burial) or a few hundred dollars for cremation or several hundred dollars for cemetery costs. One family spent only $250 on a home burial.
Aaron Josef Hernandez was born in Bristol, Connecticut, the son of Dennis Hernandez, of Puerto Rican descent; and Terri Valentine-Hernandez, of Italian descent. He had a brother Dennis, Jr., known as D.J. Their father Dennis died in January 2006 from complications from hernia surgery, when Aaron Hernandez was 16.
SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEOS. The beginning of the rest of his life: Aaron Hernandez was taken to the MCI Cedar Junction prison in Walpole, Massachusetts on Wednesday after he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd.