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When I began researching the work, Rest in Peace Insiders tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral, I was immediately confronted with Funeral Scandal. More than a year  has gone by since the work was published and Funeral scandal has gone from bad to worse in 2009.

Rest in Peace Insiders Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral

Rest in Peace Insiders Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral

Recently i was confronted in a Blog post that most funeral directors are honest, therefore we should not talk about funeral scandal. Most Funeral directors are not honest because they refuse to keep their leaders honest.  The boss at the funeral home has no one to hold their feet to the fire, no one to keep the funeral or cemetery corporation honest, no one checks up on the funeral regulator or association leader. This is why funeral scandal is  viral.

Here is how the conversation went:

“Out of all the funeral professionals in the USA at least 95% of them are honest and upstanding professionals. The examples you give probably make up the remain 5%. You make it sound like the whole industry is scamming and it is simply not true, but again these are the only things that get published publicly and that is the problem.”

via www.connectingdirectors.com

Here is my response:”Provide the basis for your numbers.-What you are quoting is a Funeral Industry myth to explain away a perpetual state of Scandal!

“It is the leaders who have blown it not those in the profession. Funeral Directors have allowed their leaders to be crooked. Many others in and outside our profession have called those mentioned here fraudulent . What you mention is a standard funeral industry myth. Not all industries have poor/bad leaders.

Look what happened to the banking industry because of poor wall street leadership. GM poor leaders-Ford good. To cliche your way around the funeral industry decline is not a valid way way to argue.”

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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
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istock_000000792183mediumIf you are a Veteran you can come in under the average cost of a funeral by simply going to a Veterans Cemetery. The National Cemeteries provide a key service for the Veteran in providing burial expenses.

From the book Rest in Peace Insiders Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral©.

“AN ULTIMATE TRIBUTE©
Today in the United States, veterans of wartime are
invited to have their funerals and burials in one of the
national cemeteries. The U.S. government provides a
fitting memorial for those have given military service to
our country. Normally a discharge paper is required.
At a national cemetery there are no charges for:
 A grave opening
 A grave closing
 A vault or liner
 The setting of a marker.”

Arlington National Cemetery Headstones.

Arlington National Cemetery Headstones.

Recently National Cemeteries around the Country have expanded to help with the growing need. The example is a cemetery in Suffolk, Virginia.

“Calverton National Cemetery will expand  its developed acreage, preparing enough grave-site land for an additional decade of burials, officials said Monday.

Rep. Tim Bishop, who announced U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs funding for the $32-million project, said veterans would join him for the groundbreaking Monday.

The cemetery had more than 6,600 interments in 2008 with more than 200,000 since opening in 1978.


This project will develop nearly 90 acres and “includes about 33,000 pre-placed crypts, 4,800 columbarium niches and 1,000 in-ground cremation interment sites,” Bishop’s office said.

via www.newsday.com

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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
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A funeral director has been caught embezzling $175,000 USD from one Estate. The problem for Funeral directors appears to be other peoples money.  That is  why you need to keep your hand on your wallet when negotiating a funeral. The Funeral  Director no matter how nice he may seem  will try to take as much money he can.

A Funeral Director has been caught Embezzling 175,000 from one estate

A Funeral Director has been caught Embezzling 175,000 from one estate

Be on your guard when making funeral arrangements

Under a pre-indictment plea deal, Childs’ attorney turned over checks for the full amount to representatives of the estate of the late Olive M. Reimann. State Supreme Court Justice Russell P. Buscaglia then told the Akron businessman he faces six months in jail when he’s sentenced Dec. 14.

via www.buffalonews.com

If you would like to protect yourself from this sort of thing, Check out Rest in Peace Insiders Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral.

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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
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FUNERAL BILL OF RIGHTS©

1. You have the right to know the prices of the
Goods and Services you are paying for in
advance, at any funeral home
, either when you
visit, or over the phone, when you call. You do
not need to give them your name, address, or
other information before they give you the prices
you ask for when you phone them.

2. You have the right to see the casket and vault
price list when you go into a funeral home and at
an arrangement conference. If you are shopping
for a funeral you must be shown a casket price list.

While some detailed casket information may
appear on the list of goods and services, usually
funeral homes have a separate written list for
casket prices. The funeral home will be sure that
you see their most costly caskets first. Before they
show you any caskets, be sure that you get a copy
of the written list so that you can identify less
expensive caskets that would suit your needs, and
request to see them.

3. You have the right to negotiate your contract
with a funeral director and funeral home.

4. You have the right to choose embalming, cremation,
or direct burial. A funeral home director or
agent is obligated to inform you of this right.

Sometimes a funeral director or agent may ask
instead just for permission to embalm your loved
one when the funeral home arrives to transport
the body. (See Chapter 2 of this book.)

5. You have the right to bring a casket or urn from
another source (including a wholesaler or
internet provider) into the funeral home, that
will be used to contain the remains of your loved
one for display or burial.

6. You have the right not to pay a funeral home an
additional fee if you bring in a casket or urn from
another sourc
e. A funeral home cannot charge
you a fee for using a casket/urn from another
source and you do not need to be present when it
is delivered at the funeral home.

7. You have the right to have services at a different
site from the funeral home you have chosen.

8. You have a right to produce the items you need
for a funeral service or buy them from another
source (other than the funeral home you are
using for some goods or services),
including:
flowers, the Order of Service programs, registration/
guest book, memorial folders, prayer
cards, and other service related items, as well as
electronic media presentations like slide shows
and videos.

9. You have the right to write the obituary.

10. You have the right to your funeral service your
way. You have the right not to select a “package”
from a funeral home’s group of packages

Funeral Bill of Rights from “Rest in Peace Insiders Tips  to the Low Cost Less Funeral©” by R.Brian Burkhardt


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Monday, September 21st, 2009
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The average cost of a funeral is on a decline according to the Seattle Times.

The average cost of a funeral is on a decline according to the Seattle Times.

The average cost of a funeral in Washington State is heading South- Cremations, and lower cost options are on the rise . In Washington State cremations out number burials 2 to 1.  Just like other locations around the Country in the Seattle area  the average cost of a Funeral is declining.  A report in the Seattle Times states:

“Amid an ongoing recession, those in the funeral industry say cost-conscious consumers are facing similar decisions when honoring loved ones — price-checking, skipping limos in favor of personal vehicles and forgoing discretionary items such as catering, extravagant flowers or long obituary notices. Receptions and even services are being held in community centers, or at home.

“A lot of times they’re having a memorial service with an urn of ashes and some pictures, and they do not need a funeral procession to put it on a mantel or a bookshelf in somebody’s home’”says the owner of a motor cycle funeral procession escort service.”

Newsweek recently quoted Craig Barton the founder of Barton Family Funeral Service as saying:

‘”People have come to believe that spending a lot of money is the only way to do it because that’s what the funeral industry has told them.”

Barton’s Service in the Seattle Area services seves  an average of 140 folks  a month while the average number of  people served at traditional funeral home is 100 per year in the USA.

Some folks are turning to doing the flowers themselves and even combining on line obituaries with smaller ones in the

A low cost funeral home can do 140 Funerals a month, the average traditional funeral home does 100 funerals a year.

A low cost funeral home can do 140 Funerals a month, the average traditional funeral home does 100 funerals a year.

newspaper. I have declared the average cost of a funeral in 2009 to be $8,500.00 per year- It is trending downward due to the economy and the rise in cremations.

All sorts of low cost funeral options are available in the funeral book: “Rest in Peace: Insiders Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral”.  The Funeral Costs Book  is reasonably priced at $12.95, and available  at Amazon.com.

Funeral Industry|Funeral Cost Blog by Your Funeral Guy

It should be no noted that the local Service Corporation International official in Seattle said she saw “no change” in Funerals although national reports show a huge decline for this corporation.


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