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.

Lower cost funeral guy in the New York Times

The Lower Cost Funeral Guy, R Brian Burkhardt has been featured in the New York Times The July 15th 2010 article is entitled:

Plan Ahead Save on Your Funeral,You cannot cheat death but maybe you can get a good deal from the undertaker(Funeral Director).

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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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:

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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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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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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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Could you please help me with my Lower Cost Funeral, and advertise on my urn?This is exactly what a man who is dying of Colon Cancer is doing.

“What would you do to help your loved ones after you die?  A Springfield man, diagnosed with terminal cancer, is selling advertising space on his urn so his wife won’t have to worry about cremation costs.”

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. – Given just months to live, Aaron Jamison has set his mind on two missions.

The first is to spread a message of hope.  Jamison, who has terminal cancer, hands out purple bracelets that read “Cancer Sucks… Life is Good…Choose Joy” to people he meets.

The other mission is harder.  Jamison wants to pay for his cremation and urn costs before he dies so his wife Kristin won’t have to worry about it.

His plan is to sell advertising space on two urns that will hold his ashes – one for his wife and one for his parents.

“I’m on different chemo now,” said Jamison, who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of colon cancer.  It has spread to his liver and lymph nodes.  ” If it works, I’ve got about nine months. If it doesn’t work, I’ve got three.  So I’m trying to get on the ball with the ad sales.”

The plan and his sense of humor are typical Aaron, say his wife and friends.

When others might cry, the musician and comedian finds a way to laugh.”via www.kval.com

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A book written on  the LOWER COST FUNERAL was inspired by experiences Your Funeral Guy had at Calvert Metzler Funeral Home in Bloomington, Il.

The Book, Rest in Peace Insiders Tips to the Low Cost Less Stressed Funeral was endorsed by a  local Bloomington Normal Funeral Director Ed Cronic

R. Brian Burkhardt authored the book after unsettling experiences with Alex Calvert at the Funeral Home in Bloomington. Particularly Calvert’s Preneed or prepaid funeral policies caused the Calverts to pocket huge amounts of money on interest on preneed (Prepaid Funerals) “Growth on Services”. Many of the Monies came out of The IFDA Preneed Trust Fund- This was the SCANDAL RIDDEN Fund in the Nationally Reported Illinois Funeral Directors Association Preneed Ponzi Scheme.

When the “Fraud Soaked” High Paying”Commissions stopped rolling in Calvert Funeral Homes, LLC  filed a lawsuit Calvert Funeral Homes LLC et al against the Illinois Funeral Directors Association.

THE WORK AND THE NETWORK OF YOUR FUNERAL GUY BLOGS ARE PARTICULARLY STRONG ON THE OPPOSITION TO PREPAID or PRENEED FUNERALS.

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A recent article in Memphis Tennessee is reporting that  recession or “Jobless Recovery” has folks turning to the Lower Cost Funeral. I is all happening at  a casket store in Memphis,Tn.

Fragile Economy "Jobless Recovery" has folks spending less on Funerals

“People say the widowed don’t shop. That’s a bunch of bull,” said Bartlett Funeral Home director Al Tacker, also the owner of Al Tacker’s Casket Store.

In his 42 years in the business, Tacker says he’s never seen the bereaved scrutinize funeral prices as they have in the last two years.

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“People are not buying the metal and upper-priced caskets, vaults and services,” Tacker said.

Proving that not even death is recession proof, Tacker’s business has taken a hit as customers become more frugal in burying their loved ones.

He estimates his clients are spending about 15 percent less on funerals”-via www.commercialappeal.com

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Your Funeral Guy’s  lower cost funeral  book-

Rest in Peace: Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral

has received a positive review.

I just read several chapters of your book, Rest In Peace, and I agree with one of your reviewers, that this may well be one of the most important books ever written……

I also really enjoyed the very beginning when we find out that the first thing a new President does is make his plan for a state funeral

Julia Amiya Messersmith

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The Death of Direct Cremation from Aurora on Vimeo.

Aurora Casket Company has tried to put to death a specific lower cost funeral, the direct cremation. This is a  strange marketing technique.

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