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of Interest

Articles of Interest:

• Daily Jefferson County Union - “Home Funerals offer a personal goodbye”    
• Smithsonian Magazines -  “The Surprising Satisfactions of a home funeral”
• Why-funerals-are-bad-for-the-environment

 

Sites of Interest:

• Funeral Consumer Alliance at  www.funerals.org
• Home Funeral Alliance at www.homefuneralalliance.org
• The Centre for Natural Burial

 

Books of Interest:

• Joshua Slocum & Lisa Carlson - “FINAL RIGHTS, Reclaiming the American Way of Death”

           An informative book; It lists all kinds of practical advice and state-by-state regulations.       

         · Nancy Poer – "Living into Dying:  A Journal of Spiritual & Practical Deathcare for  Family and                Community."  

             This book contains selected stories to illustrate the different issues and circumstances that               can be encountered.   Includes legal and practical considerations.

        · Mark Harris – "Grave Matters" at www.gravematters.us

         · Ernest Morgan – "Dealing Creatively with Death: A manual of death Education and Simple Burial."               This book covers a wide range of subjects: death education, living with dying, bereavement,

              the right  to die, simple burial and cremation, death ceremonies, and how the dead can help the                      living.

        · Sue Baily & Carmen Flowers – "Grave Expectations"

 

Movies of Interest:

• "Departures" The Gift of Last Memories (Japanese film)
• "A Family Undertaking" by Elizabeth Westrate

    Both movies are available through Netflix.