Save money on your funeral and come in under the average cost of a funeral. Your Funeral Guy has been Featured In The New York Times in July 2010.
You can get help with your Funeral Cost- Lowering your funeral cost is extremely important Over the Years Your Funeral Guy, author, blogger and funeral director has been featured in various News outlets.
The Lower Cost Funeral Guy, R Brian Burkhardt has been featured in the New York Times The July 15th 2010 article is entitled:
The author of the NYT article refers to your funeral guy blogs and names R.Brian Burkhardt as saying one of the best ways to Save on a Funeral is to obtain your casket at a discount on the Internet. That very point is highlighted in Rest In Peace.
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Virtual Funeral Arrangements are taking place. Some Funeral homes have been doing this for quite a while. The information gathered for a Funeral arrangement can be done on line including ordering a casket.
Some independent Funeral Homes have been doing this for a while, and now Stewart Enterprises, STEI is doing this.
Snippet:
Making funeral arrangements after the death of a loved one isn’t something that most would describe as easy, but a few North Texas funeral homes are incorporating a new tool to make it a bit simpler.
The funeral homes, part of the network of Stewart Enterprises Inc., are using an online tool called the virtual arrangement conference to allow families to gather information about their loved one for the death certificate and funeral service on their own time and at home.
The information is the same information usually gathered at the first meeting with a funeral arranger, and the data is then sent to the funeral home, where an arranger can go over it before a family comes in for the meeting.”
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Virtual Funeral, And the Virtyual Funeral Arrangements were all predicted in the book Rest In Peace, Insiders Tips to the Low Cost Less Streass Funeral.
Karen Jones is the Author of Death for Beginners. This funeral book is basic to educating Americans to deal with a funeral. It is one of the few funeral books I recommend. It Is featured in Today’s Q and A.
While writing the book, how did the topic affect your life?
It made me more aware of how quickly time is passing me by. This wasn’t a sad book to write, but it made me stop and think about things more than I have done previously.
Would you choose green burial over traditional burial?
Absolutely. Even though the costs can sometimes be almost the same as traditional burial, the land is held in a conservancy – and that’s good for everyone.
What is your choice for final disposition?
Direct disposition immediately to the crematorium, ashes scattered in the Chesapeake Bay, and a huge party on the beach with rock-n-roll and fun speeches.
What is your opinion of the funeral industry at large?
It is mixed. Plenty of the folks I met seemed to treat their job as a calling and were respectful and pleasant. But there were others who made me feel “slimed” – they were clearly in it to make a buck and quite disdainful at my attempt to give people choices in funeral care.
What, in your opinion, is the best way to save on Funeral Cost?
Preplan everything so no one gets ripped off after you die and do not go the “pre-pay” route. Also, join your local Funeral Consumers Alliance.
What exactly is a stripper coffin?
The stripper coffin is a beautifully made performance platform with a dancing pole that converts into a coffin for your, um, final show.
When engaging in a conversation with an acquaintance how to you bring up the subject of death?
I do this by referring to a recent death in the news or death that has touched us both. Then I can slide into the “preplanning equals saving money” approach. I’ve found that people say they don’t want to talk about the subject but when I bring it up, I can’t get them to stop.
Karen Jones is the author of Death For Beginners.
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In spite of all it’s internet users Facebook cannot tell if your face is dead or alive. They have mastered everything about social networking except digital death and dying. Have you seen a ghost on Facebook?
Everyone from the New York Times to CNET has covered this. Facebook is testing some software that supposedly can determine. whether the owner of a Facebook account is dead or alive!
Some one times someone needs to notify (set up) facebook and delete the account or setup a memorial page. Maybe soon you will be able to send a message from your iphone to your facebook account from the grave. Many folks are being buried with their cell phones these days!
Maybe an iphone casket would work?
Snippet from CNET:
“I used to live in a haunted house. The lady who wandered around it in a white nightdress seemed benign enough. She never deliberately startled me or said “boo” and never made a mess. I think she was simply looking for something or someone she’d left behind. It wasn’t me, as she had died, I believe, somewhere around 1672.
Facebook now has a similar issue to deal with. Around its vastly populated house, there are people who waft away to the next firmament without leaving a note or even saying goodbye. But they’re still there. Out there. Somewhere.
Which is frightfully inconsiderate. It makes Facebook look frightfully inconsiderate too.”
Facebook and Twitter have changed Digital Death and Dying. This past week I had the occasion to help a family with a funeral. The family was aware of the facebook memorial, and the deceased’s friends commented on the importance of the facebook as a web site to memorialize a loved one.
Technology is changing death
Technology is changing everything quickly, including death and dying. Digital Death as new field is quickly emerging.
Social networking sites and online communities are quickly coming up with death care and funeral service policies.
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