Funeral Planning Basics


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"This comprehensive funeral planning book will take you step-by-step through the process of planning a funeral. It will introduce you to issues such as organ donations, purchasing caskets, cremation, burial, puchasing grave plots, organization of funeral services, the legal and financial issues relating to funerals, the cost of pre-aranging a funeral, how to save money on funerals, how to finance funerals and much more."--Publisher's description.




A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die


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Rubin provides the information, inspiration, and tools to plan and implement creative, meaningful, and memorable end-of-life rituals for people and pets.







Preparing a Catholic Funeral


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In a revised and expanded edition, this simple pamphlet continues to guide us in dealing with death and arranging in advance for funerals. These booklets are often purchased in bulk by institutions to distribute to people of all ages to help them plan final arrangements, or to families of the deceased immediately after a death. The original edition was prompted by the death of the author's father: upon his passing and pending funeral, no one knew his plans or directives. Since then, scores of clergy, funeral directors, and parishioners have used this guide to address what needs to be done.




Mom Minus Dad: The Essential Resource Guide for Busy Adults with a Newly Widowed Parent


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Mom Minus Dad is the only resource guide available with more than 500 resources for adults who lose a parent and need to assist a newly widowed parent. The book provides readers with practical advice on ten major parent loss topics along with more than 500 valuable and time-saving resources including Web sites, companies, government resources, U.S. laws, books, and nonprofit organizations to assist the approximately twelve million sons and daughters who lose a parent every year. Each section provides online and book resources and simple practical solutions to common problems - from finding affordable counseling to building new budgets for the widowed parent to managing changing family dynamics. Each chapter reveals ideas, relevant insights from the author's personal experience, questions to consider, and additional resources to find specific assistance. The author of Mom Minus Dad gleaned intimate knowledge of balancing her own life with a newly widowed parent. Ms. Haverkampf assisted her fifty-six-year-old widowed mother in Virginia, while still running her real estate business in California, after the early unpredicted loss of her father to cancer. In her groundbreaking book, Haverkampf shares how she and her sister-both in their early thirties-found success and managed struggles during their journey after their father's death. This is a reference guide grievers will refer to during the year after loss and years beyond.




The Green Burial Guidebook


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Funeral expenses in the United States average more than $10,000. And every year conventional funerals bury millions of tons of wood, concrete, and metals, as well as millions of gallons of carcinogenic embalming fluid. There is a better way, and Elizabeth Fournier, affectionately dubbed the "Green Reaper"; walks you through it, step-by-step. She provides comprehensive and compassionate guidance, covering everything from green burial planning and home funeral basics to legal guidelines and outside-the-box options, such as burials at sea. Fournier points the way to green burial practices that consider both the environmental well-being of the planet and the economic well-being of loved ones.




Estate Planning Basics


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Estate planning, in plain English Get the need-to-know basics about wills, trusts, avoiding probate, and planning for incapacity with Estate Planning Basics. This book lays out your options in plain English, guiding you to the right estate plan for you and your family. Learn how to: • make a will or living trust • name a guardian for your children • avoid probate • choose an executor • use durable powers of attorney, and • prepare a health care directive. The 12th edition is completely updated to reflect the latest information about estate planning.




Estate Planning Essentials


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This book will help you plan your estate such as wills, trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare directives, probate fee transfers of assets ect ...




25 Funeral Planning Essentials


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*** Bonus: Free downloads of all new releases as well as reports related to this eBook Absolutely FREE. Click "Look Inside" above to subscribe *** Check out what others are saying... This book introduces you to funeral planning, and it tells you why you should plan for the funeral of the deceased. Through the book, you are able to make final arrangements and notify people of the deceased through obituaries. You are presented with valuable information on how to prepare for the funeral service and final disposition. Increased consideration has been given to the subject of funeral planning to the extent that people employ the services of a consultant. However, you can cut down on such costs by accessing the information in this book concerning funeral planning. WHO is this Book for? The book enables you to prepare a suitable plan; therefore, you do not have to go through the stress of trying to arrange a funeral while running against time. The book provides you with the necessary information to plan for a funeral; hence you do not need the services of a consultant. The book acts as a guide and at the same time as a reference whenever you want to be certain about a given aspect of funeral preparation. 7REASONS to Buy this Book: The book provides you with a good starting point in your funeral preparations. The book enables you to prepare for a funeral without the services of a funeral consultant. The book allows you to cut down on cost by providing you with alternatives. Through the book you are able to learn on how to remember the deceased. The book guarantees you success in achieving the perfect funeral preparations. The book provides you with knowledge of final disposition, including cremation and burial. Want to Know More? Just Scroll to the Top of the Page and Select the BUY button You do NOT need a Kindle device to read this eBook. Read from Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Android, BlackBerry, Windows phones, smartphones and tablets. Also, read from Amazon Kindle, Kindle Cloud Reader, and Kindle applications for PC. Tags: Funeral Guest Books, Funeral Flowers, Funeral Urns, Funeral Planning, Funeral Dress, Euology, Liturgy, Obituaries, Cremation




The Good Funeral


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"Before long I began to understand that showing up, being there, helping in an otherwise helpless situation was made heroic by the same gravity I had sensed when I first stood in that embalming room as a boy„the presence of the dead made the presence of the living more meaningful somehow, as if it involved a basic and intuitively human duty to witness." „from Chapter 1, "How We Come to Be the Ones We Are" Two of the most authoritative voices on the funeral industry come together here in one volume to discuss the current state of the funeral. Through their different lenses„one as a preacher and one as a funeral director„Thomas G. Long and Thomas Lynch alternately discuss several challenges facing "the good funeral," including the commercial aspects that have led many to be suspicious of funeral directors, the sometimes tense relationship between pastors and funeral directors, the tendency of modern funerals to exclude the body from the service, and the rapid growth in cremation. The book features forewords from Patrick Lynch, President of the National Funeral Directors Association, and Barbara Brown Taylor, highly praised author and preacher. It is an essential resource for funeral directors, morticians, and pastors, and anyone else with an interest in current funeral practices.