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POST-MORTEM DNA TESTING & DNA PRESERVATION — THE FINAL GIFT THAT SAVES LIVES

Did you know that the funeral home is your family's last chance to preserve your loved one's DNA? Once cremation takes place, that DNA is gone forever.

In this Cremation Knowledge Center video, Sunshine Cremation Services explains two powerful services that most families never know exist until it's too late: post-mortem DNA testing and DNA preservation storage. Many families believe that requesting an autopsy will give them answers about hereditary health risks — but an autopsy only tells you how someone died.

It reveals nothing about inherited genetic conditions that could affect your children and grandchildren. And at $7,000 to $8,000 or more, an autopsy leaves families with an enormous bill and no genetic answers.

Post-mortem DNA testing is different. For $1,000 to $1,500, a specialized lab can analyze your loved one's genetic material to identify hereditary conditions — including certain cancers, heart disease, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and Lewy body dementia — that surviving family members may be at risk for.

Even more remarkable, Sunshine Cremation Services can arrange to have your loved one's DNA extracted, purified, stabilized, and returned to your family in a sealed sterile vial — stored at room temperature, indefinitely, with no refrigeration required.

That vial can be passed down through generations, and as medical science advances, the same sample may unlock answers that don't yet exist today. We also explain why post-mortem DNA testing offers privacy protections that living DNA tests do not — protecting your children's ability to obtain life, disability, and long-term care insurance.

⚠️ Important: Cremated remains contain no DNA. Both services must be arranged BEFORE cremation takes place.