We offer educational brochures on a variety of topics. The brochures are free; however, your donation will help to offset our costs of duplication and mailing.
______ The Cremation Option in Western Massachusetts (FCAWM)
______ Funeral Home Price List for Western Massachusetts (FCAWM)
______ Funeral or Cremation Checklist (FCAWM)
______ Green Burial in W. Massachusetts (FCAWM)
______ Prepaying for Your Funeral in Massachusetts (Funeral Ethics Organization)
The following are from the national Funeral Consumers Alliance; most of these are downloadable from www.funerals.org/faq
______ Beat the High Cost of Funerals: Benefits of Membership In a Funeral Consumer Group
______ Common Funeral Myths
______ Cremation Explained: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
______ Death Away From Home
______ Death in One State, Burial in Another (plus, What You Should Know About
Bereavement Airfares)
______ Did You Forget?: The Most Important Part of Funeral Planning
______ Earth Burial: A Tradition in Simplicity
______ Eco-Friendly Death and Funeral Choices
______ Four-Step Funeral Planning: Where to Start When You Don't Know How to Start
______ The Funeral Consumer Movement: From One Local Society to a National Voice
______ How to File a Funeral or Cemetery Complaint
______ How to Help Grieving People: What You Can Say, What You Can Do
______ How to Plan a Memorial Service
______ How to Read a General Price List (GPL)
______ Light, Like the Sun, by Frances Newton (an essay on cremation)
______ No One Wants to Talk About Death: How to Help
______ Organ and Body Donation: A Gift to Science
______ Prepaying Your Funeral: Benefits and Dangers
______ Recycle Your Medical Devices
______ “Simple and Cheap” My Father Said, by Josephine Black Pesarsi, daughter of Supreme
Court Justice Hugo Black
______ Starting a Funeral Committee in Your Congregation
______ Ten Tips for Saving Funeral Dollars
______ Twelve Reasons Why People Spend “Too Much” for a Funeral
______ Veterans’ Funeral and Burial Benefits (including Spouses and Dependent Children):
What You Get and What You Don’t
______ Viewing and Visitation: The Difference
______ What Shall We Do with the Ashes (Cremains)?
______ What You Should Know About Embalming
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