You can get help with your Funeral Cost Lowering your funeral cost is extremely important to lowering your Funeral Cost. Over the Years Your Funeral Guy, author blogger and funeral director has been featured in various News outlets.
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The Lower Cost Funeral Guy, R Brian Burkhardt has been featured in the New York Times The July 15th 2010 article is entitled:
This title is actually the theme of the funeral cost book Rest in Peace Insiders Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral.
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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July 19th, 2010
Dignity(R) is now blogging on against the lower cost funeral For their Norh Carolina Funeral Homes. At first their points seem to be for the lower cost funeral. Service Corporation International(NYSE:SCI). The Latest Post at the North Carolina, Dignity Site is;
Funeral Planning Advice: How to Lower The Cost of Funeral Arrangements
The post suggests the way to lower your funeral cost is to lower your casket cost, do not purchase clothes, cut back on funeral flowers and eliminate catering.
The is a a real lame attempt to limit funeral cost. As I have a often stated a real lower cost funeral can be done by
Choosing Cremation,
Purchasing a Casket on the Internet and
Having a funeral home at a location other than the funeral home.
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The snnipet from the post below is nothing but a lame attempt at a lower cost funeral:
First, consider skipping the fancy casket unless you know it’s something your loved one would have wanted. Casket costs make up a huge percent of the expense of a funeral. By selecting an elegant but simple casket, you can save an incredible amount of money. We can help you to choose from a variety of styles that fit your needs and your budget.
Bury your loved one in his or her favorite clothes from life instead of purchasing a new outfit for the burial. By having your loved one dressed in his or her personal clothing, the funeral will have a more personal and honest feeling, not to mention saving your family money that you may not have set aside.
Consider forgoing fancy flower arrangements and bringing wildflowers or flowers from the garden. Many of those in attendance will also bring flowers to the funeral home, which may make the purchase of additional flower arrangements unnecessary.
Pass on the catering. Instead, plan a simple gathering with coffee and cookies following the service. If you would like to have a meal together, ask guests to bring a dish to pass. Catering can be very costly, especially if there are many loved ones who would like to attend.
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July 15th, 2010
The Funeral industry has come on strong on the internet in the last two years. Some websites do all the can to work against the Funeral consumer others simply help funeral directors to find new ways to take your money.
These Folks have to be named to protect the lower cost funeral and the funeral consumer. We are not naming funeral home websites today but funeral industry websites.
1. ConnectingDirectors.Com This Site appears to be a group of funeral directors, advertisers getting together to squeeze more dollars out of the funeral consumer. Comments on behalf of the Funeral Consumer are discouraged.Articles by and about advertisers are continually posted, and the subject of videos.
2. NFDA.ORG . The NFDA purports to be the funeral directors and the consumers friend. There first purpose though is to help funeral directors stay and grow in business. There Executive Treasurer who is slated to be the Next NFDA president Elect is deeply involved in the Illinois Funeral Directors Association Preneed Ponzi Scheme
3. Funeral Futurist.com “This site teaches funeral directors to raise consumer funeral cost through the use of Social Media,with an emphasis on facebook. There is original material here, but the goal is to show Funeral Directors new ways profit from death of working stiffs, funeral futurist.
4. IFDA.org. The Illinois Funeral Directors Association (IFDA) preneed ponzi scheme. This scheme spread to the National Funeral Directors Association in the person of Randal L Earl(current NFDA Treasurer). Initially 59 milliom is gone. The total now is over 100 million dollars. These Folks are sill in Business at http://www ifda.org. Their ability to harm the Funeral Consumer is now regulated. Their website is horribly out of date.
5 Todd Van Beck ICCFA Blog. It took a full blog post to explain why this post is anti consumer. Essentially this man refers to the Funeral Consumer as Archie and Edith Bunker. Click here for the blog post explaining all this.
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June 29th, 2010
Fund raising for a funeral can happen with a car wash
One way to to a lower cost funeral is to raise the money. One way to raise money is by having a Car Wash.
That’s the situation the family of Clementina Michelle Hagin, 34, found themselves in after her death Thursday.
“On Saturday afternoon, Lynn Sims, Hagin’s pastor at Life Changing Outreach Ministries off Martintown Road in North Augusta, organized a car wash in an attempt to raise the $6,000 needed for the ceremony.
While Sims and the family try to raise the money, Hagin’s body is being kept at C.A. Reid Sr. Memorial Funeral Home, owned by Charlie Reid.”-via chronicle.augusta.com
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These folks should be credited for trying to pay for their lower cost funeral by having a car wash.
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June 14th, 2010
The lower cost Funeral Book -Rest in Peace Insiders Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral has recieved a poitive traditional Funeral industry review.
“I was relieved to find this book was not a profession-trashing expose like Mitford’s tome from long ago. Instead, I found Burkhardt’s book insightful and filled with practical and easy strategies to help the consumer be more in control of the funeral process.
The book is compact and easy to read, well-written, concise. He highlights the importance of pre-arranging, outlines the importance of ceremony and memorialization, and stresses the need for assertiveness (not aggressiveness) on the part of the family. As a 16+ year funeral director and author, I would counsel my friends and family likewise.
Excellent resource with a refreshingly objective and honest voice. Amber L Winkler.-Author of the “Final Bath” Funeral Director
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