Moving with the Times – Zoom Home Funeral & Viewed Cremation
A few weeks ago a person called me to tell me his wife had died in her sleep and he wanted a beautiful casket for
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A few weeks ago a person called me to tell me his wife had died in her sleep and he wanted a beautiful casket for
Here is an interesting story from the Funeral Consumers Alliance relating to advice given to a consumer in CA who was considering whether to cancel their prepaid contracts before death. The answer is specific to California, because each state has different laws on preneed refundability. The considerations about insurance versus trust, and about Medicaid spend-downs, apply everywhere.
The idea for Final Footprint® began in 2004. The founder had recently returned from her native England, with a crazy idea to have natural burial sites all over this country, as in England. Final Footprint
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I began last time, by comparing the beginning and end of life processes in the United States. The beginning of life has a vast and rapidly growing set of natural components. The end of life process has far fewer, and they are not growing nearly as quickly. That does not take away from their importance or validity. One of first components I’d like to talk about is
Hi, my name is Jane Hillhouse, and I am the founder of Final Footprint, the leading resource for natural burial products in the United States. As you can tell by the business that I am in, I have a passion for making the end of life, the only thing that is even more certain for all of us than taxes
You might have noticed the Green Burial Council insignia on the home page of Final Footprint. We have a lot in common. We both want to encourage ecological responsibility in the field of funeral service and be good stewards of the environment. Even more
You can’t sell a five-foot coffin. Okay, so that isn’t entirely true. You can, it’s just really hard. Everything we do is designed to limit the ecological impact of our choices. Our coffins are made from renewable