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Caring for the Dead: Your Final Act of Love: A Complete Guide for Those Making Funeral Arrangements With or Without a Funeral Director

Caring for the Dead: Your Final Act of Love: A Complete Guide for Those Making Funeral Arrangements With or Without a Funeral Director

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AuthorsCarlson, Lisa, 1938-
TagsDeath, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Burial laws, Funeral Rites, Mortuary Practice, Burial
PublisherUpper Access
Published12 gen 1998
Date12 lug 2020
Languageseng
Identifiersoclc: 1029271803, lcn: GT3203.C36 1998, uri: https://www.archive.org/details/caringfordeadyou00carl, isbn: 0942679210
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Description

Although written from a Protestant perspective, it is recommended in FishEaters's article: Burying the Dead: Catholic Funerals

  1. Personal stories
  2. What is a "traditional" American funeral?
  3. Managing death: necessary information
  4. A free funeral: starting a funeral committee in your congregation
  5. Cremation with dignity / by Patsy Santoro
  6. Body and organ donation: let the dead teach the living
  7. Tales from a country coroner / by Susan McIver
  8. Burial: public, religious, and family cemeteries
  9. For-profit cemeteries: no rest for the unwary
  10. Understanding the tricks of the funeral trade: a changing deathcare industry
  11. Embalming: "a beautiful memory picture"?
  12. Caskets & other boxes, markers & memorials --The body snatchers: preneed greed
  13. Federal Trade Commission: boon and boondoggle
  14. Funeral planning societies: a consumer's right to choose
  15. Caring for the dead in: [states]
  16. Appendix: Ethical standards, unprofessional conduct, & filing a complaint
  17. Consumer's guide to the FTC funeral rule
  18. Death certificate details
  19. A good neighbor's list for a time of death

Many states (e.g., Arizona ARS 36.329.01) require death certificates for fetal deaths ≥20 wks., regardless if the cause of death is spontaneous (miscarriage) or elective abortion.