Restoring Families’ Rights to Choose Home Funerals

This guide, co-written with home funeral educator and advocate Lee Webster, is for any family or official interested in learning ...
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Who has the legal right to make decisions about your funeral?

Personal Preference Laws for Body Disposition In more than half the states, there is a statutory obligation for survivors to ...
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Veterans’ Funeral and Burial Benefits

VETERANS All veterans are entitled to burial in one of the 151 national veterans cemeteries, a headstone or marker, and ...
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Your Funeral Consumer Rights, State by State

Here’s your one-stop-shopping for all your questions about your legal rights. Funeral Ethics Organization, run by Lisa Carlson, co-author of Final ...
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Informed Consent: What You Should Know When Donating Your Body

Recently, more consumers have become interested in whole body donation to entities that make body parts, organs, and tissue available ...
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Was the Funeral Home Ethical?

Are You Wondering if the Funeral Home You Used Was an Ethical One? It probably was — IF — you ...
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Caring for Your Own Dead

It’s here! Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death will be published June, 2011, but Funeral Consumers Alliance is ...
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