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Advance Directives<\/a><\/h3>\n

Hospice<\/a><\/h3>\n

Other Funeral Resources<\/h3>\n
\nI\u2019m Sorry to Hear:<\/a> Find\u00a0funeral homes<\/a>, rate and read reviews of funeral homes<\/a> on the TripAdvisor of funeral planning!<\/p>\n

I Want A Fun Funeral<\/a>: Better than a Tupperware party, have a Fun Funeral planning party!<\/p>\n

The Order of the Good Death<\/a>:\u00a0So much fun and\u00a0<\/em>educational.<\/p>\n

Heart2Soul<\/a>:\u00a0Lots of good info on funeral planning including traditions, etiquette, and practical ways to be kind and supportive to the bereaved<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Reading<\/h3>\n

Before I Go You, Should Know<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0The Funeral Consumers Alliance\u2019s comprehensive end-of-life planner<\/p>\n

Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death<\/a> \u00a0by Josh Slocum and Lisa Carlson.
\nDecades after Jessica Mitford stunned America with vivid accounts of corruption and abuse in the death industry, not much has improved. Families are manipulated into buying expensive goods and services they don\u2019t need or want. Prepaid funeral money vanishes into thin air. Body parts are sold on the black market. Eight states force families to pay a funeral director even if they conduct a home funeral with no need for help. But a consumer movement is now awakening, and Americans are asserting their rights over a key part of life, just as they did in the past with the natural childbirth and the hospice movement. The two most prominent leaders of that movement are the authors of this book: Joshua Slocum, executive director of Funeral Consumers Alliance, and Lisa Carlson, executive director of Funeral Ethics Organization. Here they join forces to expose wrongdoing, inform consumers of their rights, and propose legal reforms. The book includes state-by-state summaries of laws, regulations, services, and consumer concerns.<\/p>\n

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers<\/a>\u00a0by Mary Roach
\nThis book provides an informative and entertaining history of the use of cadavers in research, including a chapter on Mary’s visit to the Tennessee Body Farm.\u00a0Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.<\/p>\n

Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial<\/a> by Mark Harris
\nGrave Matters follows families who found in \u201cgreen\u201d burial a more natural, more economic, and ultimately more meaningful alternative to the tired\u00a0and toxic send-off on offer at the local funeral parlor. Eschewing chemical embalming and fancy caskets, elaborate and costly funerals, they have\u00a0embraced a range of natural options, new and old, that are redefining a better American way of death. Grave Matters details the embalming process and the environmental aftermath of the standard funeral. Harris also traces the history of burial in America, from frontier cemeteries to the billion-dollar business it is today, reporting on real families who opted for more simple, natural returns. For readers who want to follow the examples of these families, appendices detail everything you need to know, from exact costs and laws to natural burial providers and their contact information.

Dying Wish<\/a>\u00a0is a documentary directed by Karen Van Vuren, founder of <\/span>Natural Transitions<\/a>\u00a0about hospice patient, Dr. Michael Miller, an eighty-year old, retired surgeon with end-stage cancer who chooses to stop eating and drinking in order not to prolong his dying process, to ease his suffering and to die with grace.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dealing Creatively with Death: A Manual of Death Education and Simple Burial<\/a> by Ernest Morgan
\nMore than 310,000 copies of this book (in its 14 editions) have sold so far. It is a small encyclopedia of death-related problems: social, emotional,\u00a0philosophical, and practical. It is written simply and sensitively, drawing substantially on direct experience. The earliest editions were typeset by\u00a0Ernest\u2019s printing students as a fundraising project for their school. Sales exceeded expectations, and Ernest expanded and improved it through 14 editions, culminating in the current book, one of the best-sellers from Upper Access.<\/p>\n

The American Way of Death Revisited<\/a> by Jessica Mitford
\nOnly the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an expos\u00e9 of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963 this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in \u201cthe dismal trade.\u201d Just before her death in 1996, Mitford thoroughly revised and updated her classic study. The American Way of Death Revisited confronts new trends, including the success of the profession\u2019s lobbyists in Washington, inflated cremation costs, the telemarketing of pay-in-advance graves, and the effects of monopolies in a death-care industry now dominated by multinational corporations. With its hard-nosed consumer activism and a satiric vision out of Evelyn Waugh\u2019s novel The Loved One, The American Way of Death Revisited will not fail to inform, delight, and disturb.<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Advance Directives Hospice Other Funeral Resources I\u2019m Sorry to Hear: Find\u00a0funeral homes, rate and read reviews of funeral homes on the TripAdvisor of funeral planning! I Want A Fun Funeral: Better than a Tupperware party, have a Fun Funeral planning party! The Order of the Good Death:\u00a0So much fun and\u00a0educational.\u2026<\/p>\n

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