I know you're probably kidding, but there are some very strict rules in Indiana WRT burial. In Indiana, it's not even legal to spread cremated ashes, they must be kept in an urn, or buried in a marked burial plot... I'm going to have a secret will/directive that tells my kids to screw the law, they can load me up in some 12 ga shells and dust some clays with my remains...
I've told my wife that I want her to get with my "gun" friends and I also want to be reloaded into ammo - and then a big ol fun shoot somewhere. But it's probably easier to do with shotgun shells. I should take up clay shooting so I have an excuse for that particular wish.
And if we'd had to cremate my FiL due to $ concerns... We were going to spread him around a little at a time, too.
Something else to keep in mind: SOME counties in IN do NOT have "morgues". They'll either use hospital facilities or they'll use funeral home facilities for "storage". I now know that Wells, Co, Indiana does not have a morgue of it's own.
A memorial service at a funeral home / rental casket / funeral-home handled cremation will still be about $8k.
I don't know what it would have been to have a cremation service come and get him, do their thing, and then have a "party" somewhere else. I imagine there'd be some kind of costs involved for the funeral home's work/storage. I'd think that $2k max would probably do it as far as a no-service / cremation only option.