Funeral costs

“I started taking better care of myself once I learned how expensive funerals are.”

  this from the Good Funeral Guide,

http://www.goodfuneralguide.co.uk/

Compliments about my caskets from funeral service providers...

Ha, I can't make this up.  Two caskets delivered during October and both were handed off to owners of reputable funeral service providers in southern Maine.  Both of these owners complimented me on the construction quality and simple beauty of the Maine Green Casket.  

In closing comments during our exchange, they both asked for my pricing of these simple caskets to them, at wholesale, of course.

I told them that was not in the plan, at the moment.

I love it.

Take back the word, " home" from the funeral industry

From now on, when I  read a statement or press release about the funeral services industry (for instance the company Service Corporation International, SCI) and it talks about "funeral homes"  ...  I will post a comment on that feed.

The funeral industry has high-jacked the word, HOME.  Going into a "funeral home" is nothing like a home, a house or a building where someone lives...  A funeral facility is space dedicated to gathering people to say goodbye to a loved person.  That's it, period.  It has very little "homeness".  It can't. 

The owners of the facility are set up to handle many families on a daily / weekly basis.  It is a facility to do just that.

Please take a moment next time you are inside a funeral service facilty and tell me if you feel at home.

Presentation about consumer's funeral rights by Last Things

Here's a post on FaceBook  by the group that runs "Last Things" a consumer advocacy group. 

They were at the recent Common Ground Fair answering questions about home funerals and funeral regulations.

Spent the day at Common Ground Fair, listening and learning

In the Folk Life area at the Common Ground Fair, my friends from Last Things were giving talks and answering questions about funerals, home funerals and your rights as a consumer.

Here's their web-site for more information: http://www.lastthings.net/

Please visit them, for they have heard your questions and concerns before, trust me.