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Consumer Tips For Arranging A Funeral

By National Funeral Directors Association
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters

Today’s funeral director offers a variety of options to meet your financial needs and wishes. Families should discuss all options with their funeral director when making arrangements.

Consumer Tips on Prepaying Your Funeral

By National Funeral Directors Association
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters

Choose a licensed funeral director who has a good reputation in the community.Ask your funeral director how the funds are invested and check over time to ensure the funds are keeping pace with inflation.

Consumer Preneed Bill of Rights:

By National Funeral Directors Association
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters

Prior to purchasing any funeral goods or services or signing a preneed funeral contract, you should know your consumer preneed bill of rights.

A Caring Response: An Aid’s Related Death

By National Funeral Directors Association
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Grief and Bereavement

AIDS, or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, is a disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that destroys the body’s natural ability to fight illness.

Cremation

By National Funeral Directors Association
  • Death and Dying
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters

Cremation is the second most common form of disposition in the United States. The percentage of cremations to deaths in the United States and Canada has increased steadily during the last two decades.

Embalming

By National Funeral Directors Association
  • Aging
  • Community Services
  • Death and Dying
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters

The practice of embalming has existed since early history throughout many lands and cultures. Embalming disinfects, temporarily preserves and restores, to an acceptable physical appearance, a dead human body.

Will I Ever Stop Hurting? A Parent’s Grief

By National Funeral Directors Association
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Children & Youth
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement

Most of us expect to bury our parents someday. We can accept that they will grow old and die-that is nature’s way. But we do not expect to bury our children.

“How An Afterlife Journey Began”

By Robert Murray
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Death and Dying
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs

This story is from Michael and his view of life after life.

Departing Or Death Bed Visions: (FAQ)

By Carla Wills-Brandon
  • Aging
  • Death and Dying
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Grief and Bereavement

A death bed vision or DBV is a powerful, comforting experience the dying and their family members often encounter just before death occurs.

I Had A Deathbed Vision – Am I Alone?

By Carla Wills-Brandon
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs

Hear about the authors personal experience with her dying mother and a deathbed vision.

Understanding Departing Visions Or Deathbed Visitations

By Carla Wills-Brandon
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

Deathbed visions provide dying people with comfort before the departure to the other world and prepare the caregivers for separation from the loved one.

Caregivers Grieve, Too!

By Kathleen Braza
  • Aging
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

Grief is the personal experience of loss. Change, illness, or the loss of hopes, plans, and dreams can trigger the emotions associated with grief.

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