Home Funerals: tending to their own

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• Natural burials, home funerals gain fans

  May 24, 2009 in Articles

  Natural burials, home funerals gaining popularity
  By JODEE TAYLOR, jtaylor@record-eagle.com
  Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle, Published: May 23, 2009
  TRAVERSE CITY — Bob Butz is going to build his own coffin. It may double as a coffee table or bookshelves until he needs it.
  Butz, 38, is a Lake Ann author whose newest book, [...]

• Alternatives for families

  May 15, 2009 in Articles

  Source: http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/whidbey/swr/business/44617347.html
  By Patricia Duff, South Whidbey Record Arts & Entertainment, Island Life, May 09 2009
  Death, in a sense, is a denouement. It follows the climax of life.
  In it, a person plays out the final act of one’s existence before his or her exit out of this world.
  Strange, then, that many families in American society allow [...]

• Define “home funeral”

  May 15, 2009 in Education

  “A home funeral is a noncommercial, family-centered response to death that involves the family and its social community in the care and preparation of the body for burial or cremation and/or in planning and carrying out related rituals or ceremonies and/or in the burial or cremation itself.
  “A home funeral may occur entirely within the family [...]

• Slide Presentation on Home Funeral and Green Burial

  May 14, 2009 in Misc. Video

  Slide presentation on Home Funerals and Green Burials by Donna Belk
  http://www.slideshare.net/dbelk/home-funerals-and-green-burial

• Home Funeral Photos on Flickr.com

  May 13, 2009 in Articles, Education

  A site with photos about home funerals so you can view different scenarios where they have been used.
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/homefunerals