Anatomical Gifts
Many people choose to donate all or a part of their body to medicine. Here you will understand the differences in the two types of anatomical gifts.
Consumer Tips For Arranging A Funeral
- 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
- 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:
Prior to purchasing any funeral goods or services or signing a preneed funeral contract, you should know your consumer preneed bill of rights.
Cremation
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
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
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”
- 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)
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?
- 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
- 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!
Grief is the personal experience of loss. Change, illness, or the loss of hopes, plans, and dreams can trigger the emotions associated with grief.