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• - An association of manufacturers of memorials, tombstones, and markers. Site includes consumer information on purchasing memorials and consumer and legistlative news.
  
• - Detailed information on everything from finding a funeral service provider to paying for funerals to alternative methods of disposition (e.g., body donation, burial at sea). Also includes counseling resources.
  
• - A consumer's guide to funeral arrangement. Provides an overview of options that need to be considered.
  
• - A veteran of the death care business, reveals the rip-offs and shows people how to cut funeral costs.
  
• - Pre-planning and planning resources for funerals, memorial services, cremation.
  
• - A non-profit consumers' alliance dedicated to the consumer's right to choose a simple, economical, meaningful, dignified funeral or memorial service.
  
• - Consumer guide for California residents, including how FTC regulations and California law impact such practices as burial at sea, which the sponsoring company offers.
  
• - Provides information about the Body Donation Program at Oregon Health Sciences University.
  
• - High-level funeral planning guide, with information on financing funerals, pre-need insurance and other funding options, and details on veterans' benefits.
  
• - Basic information on the benefits of pre-planning a funeral; offers a low-cost workbook to help make decisions and plan the event. Developed by a 30-year veteran of funeral service.
  
• - Gathers information about the Ontario Canada death care industry on behalf of Memorial Society members who have decided they do not want expensive full service conventional funerals and communicates this information to anyone interested.
  
• - Advice and guidance on choosing the appropriate funeral flowers--Find UK Florists for Funeral Flowers, Floral Tributes, Sympathy Flowers, Floral Tributes and wreaths.
  
• - Independent consumer guide to funerals lists UK funeral directors and monumental masons; includes information about sending funeral and sympathy flowers and floral tributes.
  
• - Consumer protection information from the Minnesota Office of the State Auditor. Includes legal information, glossary, information on veterans' benefits, consumer guide, links to resources.
  
• - Includes downloadable and printable organ and whole body donation cards, articles on death and what happens to dead bodies (including stages of decay), funeral industry glossary, and books and reference materials on the medical aspects of death.
  
• - Detailed overview on wills and how they work, including how to write one, what qualifies a will as a will, how probate works, and what trusts are and how they work. Great top-level overview developed by an attorney.
  
• - Consumer guide to end of life planning, includes articles on grief support and coping with imminent death as well as funeral and memorial planning tools.
  
• - Funeral arranging advice for persons arranging at-need or pre-need funerals.
  
• - Online self-prepare programs with guidance and instructions for preplanning final arrangements. Includes product and service guide, cemetery lot listings, and advice on topics such as eldercare, retirement, and bereavement.
  
• - The Society assists and educates consumers in preplanning, funerals.
  
• - Non-profit publisher on dying at home, death care and preparing funerals.
  
• - Information on funeral planning, financing funerals, online planning tools, grief support materials, ask the experts panel, and funeral home locator guide.
  
• - A resource for finding poems, songs and music, and other creative ideas for personalizing funeral and memorial services. Also includes tips on how to write a eulogy, and preplanning advise.
  
• - Overview of funeral planning, estate and other legal questions, and other funeral and memorial questions.
  
• - An all-volunteer, non-profit consumer and educational organization offering guidance in making preliminary funeral and burial arrangements.
  
• - Guide and directory about funerals and death in the USA.
  
• - ScienceCare serves as a link between individual donors and medical researchers and educators. Cremation is provided at no cost to ScienceCare donors.
  
• - Funeral industry watchdog group that includes consumer warnings about specific organizations, things to watch for, and tools and information on planning a funeral.
  
• - An annotated bibliography of materials on funeral planning and estate settlement, with links to other resources on wills, advance directives, and Medicaid eligibility.