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State
of California
Cemetary
& Funeral Bureau (Agencia de Cementerios y Servicios Funerarios)
Consumer
Guide to Funeral and Cemetary Purchases (PDF
format)
Guía
del Consumidor Servicios Funerarios y de Cementerios (PDF)
La
Comisión Federal de Comercio
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
FTC's
Funeral Rule (16 CFR Part 453)
Shopping
for Funeral Products and Services
Funerals:
Guide for Funeral Homes/Mortuaries (PDF)
Funerals:
A Consumer's Guide
Funerales:
Guía para el Consumidor
FTC
Publications for the Funeral Industry
Complying
with the Funeral Rule
Sites
of Interest
Bay
Area Funeral Society (BAFS)
Crossings: Caring For Our Own At
Death
EthicalBurial.org
Final
Passages (Home Funerals)
Funeral
Consumers Alliance
Home
Funeral Manual
Jessica
Mitford
Jewish
Funerals, Burial and Mourning
Green
/ Eco-Friendly After-Death Alternatives
Build
your own coffins and caskets (Google links)
An
Intimate Farewell
Brothers
Seek Green Burials at Family Farm
Freeze-Drying
Touted as New Green Burial
Green
Graves Give Back to Nature
Green
Graveyards: The Natural Way to Go
The
Green Reaper
Greener
Ways to the Great Beyond
Multi-Task
Caskets
Natural
Death Care Project and Home Funeral Ministry: An Interview with Jerri
Lyons
North
American Woodland Burial Society
Green/Eco
Burial Organizations
Information on and local green funeral cemeteries
Green
Burial Council
Memorial Ecosystems
In California
Forever Fernwood
There are an increasing
number of individuals and companies making biodegradable cremains urns
and shrouds as well as plain wood and paper product caskets. To locate
online and local sources, you can use your favorite search engine (such
as Google, or Dogpile)
and search for "green burial", "green funeral", "eco
funeral", "alternative funeral", "burial alternatives",
"biodegradable urns", "biodegradable coffins", "natural
burial", etc.
For
articles related to funerals and funeral planning, be sure to check out
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section.
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