Now you can put Your face on an urn for all to see. Yes the one who is gone can have his or her face up there on the mantel. But it will cost you. Problem is the cost is $2,600.00.
“Now we can create a custom urn in the image of your loved one or favorite Celebrity.
New advances in facial reconstruction and 3D printing have made it possible to have an urn made in the image of anyone from just a photograph.
“Never forget a face. Personal Urns combine art and technology to create a family heirloom that will be cherished for generations.
Available in Two Sizes
• Full sized will hold all of the ashes of any adult
• Keepsake size is about 1/4 of the full sized and will hold about 25 cubic inches”
Funeral cremation personalization has gone too far.
Funeral industry|Funeral blog by Your Funeral Guy, the lower cost funeral guy Funeral Director, Illinois and Virginia
The cost here is well above the average cost of this type of service for an urn.
Illinois Funeral Directors Association has no standing, anywhere
There will be no standing at the the Illinois Funeral Directors Lower cost Funeral. Surely the ceremony is about to begin as the fat lady gets ready to sing.
“My prediction is that the Illinois Funeral directors association will be out of business by this time next year.”-yourfuneralguy
Last fall they had to write out $59 Million out of their Preneed Trust Fund.
The Comptroller of the State of Illinois has demanded that the Illinos Funeral Directors Association pay back 10 million dollars. It appears that they do not have the funds according to their executive director Duane Marsh.
There are now 5 lawsuits in the IFDA Preneed Trust Scandal. As lawsuits proliferate the chances of the Illinois Funeral Directors survival diminish.
For these reasons the Illinois Funeral Directors Association is about to go to the grave. For this reason also you should not stand for funeral preneed. The IFDA has no standing with lower cost preneed funerals anymore
Funeral cost| Funeral Industry Blog by Your Funeral Guy- Lower Cost Funeral Guy
No standing picture from flickr under creative commons license from
Quote from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel May 10th 2009.
Your Funeral Guy in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
‘The entire funeral industry model is changing, said R. Brian Burkhardt, a funeral director in Wheaton, Ill., who blogs about the industry at yourfuneralguy.com.
Consumers are spending less on funeral services, the result of the economic downturn. “People are cutting back because they have to,” Burkhardt said. “People are walking in and demanding less.Check out the full Milwaukee Sentinel Journal Article .
Quoted Speaking Up for NFDA Integrity
Your Funeral Guy -Quoted in the Funeral Service Insider a Kates-Boylston Publication 0n April 6th 2009.
Randall L “Earl is also coming under fire on the Internet.In his blog “Your Funeral Guy,”
Your Funeral Guy Quoted in KatesBolyston Publication The Funeral Service Insider
states that Earl’s involvement with alleged misdeeds at the IFDA
may hurt the national association.
He writes, “The integrity of the IFDA has been destroyed. THE INTEGRITY OF THE NFDA, NATIONAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS
ASSOCIATION NEEDS TO BE QUESTIONED ASWELL.”
When contacted by phone, Burkhardt had more harsh words for the leaders at NFDA. “I see the integrity of the
profession as a little at stake here,” he says. “And I would think that (Earl) would want to put
that above being treasurer of NFDA
or anything like that. The profession needs as much integrity as it can get right now, and him
being on the executive board is not good for the whole mess.”
The Quote from Newsweek March 16 2009
BUSINESS: “Where Death Comes Cheap” (p. 45). Associate Editor Matthew Philips reports ……. “There’s a major movement toward low-cost options right now,” says R. Brian Burkhardt, a funeral director in Wheaton, Ill., who writes an industry blog called Your Funeral Guy.
Your Funeral Guy on the Funeral
“Those businesses that adjust will do fine — and those that don’t will be gone.”
Your Funeral Guy was Quoted in World Net Daily on Illinois Senator Roland Burris and a funeral Ponzi Scam
Quote from World Net Daily posted January 16th 2009.
R. Brian Burkhardt, a funeral director in the state and the author of a book on saving money on funeral costs, told WND he noticed a year ago that the fund set up under the license granted by Burris had reported a $40 million loss – $59 million at the most recent reporting.
“One of the complaints that have been made against the IFDA is that excessive
“Quite frankly, the money should go for the living,” says Mr. Burkhardt.
Your Funeral Guy was Quoted in National Post
“Why should you put $15,000 in the ground for a funeral when the money can go to your
R.Brian Burkhardt Rest in Peace Book mentioned in National Post of Canada
grandkid’s education or to a relative?”
“If you take away all the emotion from the situation, it is a contract negotiation. Funeral directors will negotiate with you for a lower cost,” Mr. Burkhardt says. For example, he says, you can opt not to have the body embalmed.
Corruption in Illinois goes from Death to the US Senate. It appears as if a though the trust fund that the ILLINOIS FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION were unfaithful
The Illinois Funeral Directors Association were unfaithfful stewards and corrupt in regards to The Illinois Funeral TRUST fund.
stewards of is failing.
In the fall of 2008 the fund was written down for $59 Million. GONE! Their investors put money in tune of $190 -Million in scandalous life insurance policies. The fund consisted of preneed funds for funerals for about 44,000 people in Illinois
Investigators have been shocked to find that money was used to pay for unique key life insurance policies, lobbying ,loans, special projects and perks for funeral home directors and Leaders at the Illinois Funeral Directors Association (IFDA).
The Illinois Funeral Directors Association stated that the funds were safe and guaranteed in U.S. Treasury securities, corporate bonds and other fixed income securites Instead went into fraudelant insurance policies with a $25,000 bribe for free life insurance paid for by the IFDA.
Funeral directors in the state did not follow up with due diligence according to deathcarelaw.com
“In a nutshell, Illinois funeral directors did not perform due diligence with regard to the management of their master trust. Instead, funeral directors placed their trust in their elected leadership, who then placed their trust in an investment advisor.”
Those 300+ funeral directors who were named in Special Key Guy life Insurance policies have not and will not die
IL Senator Burris and the IFDA have refused to answer FUNERAL TRUST FUND Questions since a January 16th 2009 article in World Net Daily.
fast enough so as to pay off the funerals of Public investors who pre-paid.
The man who took President Barack Obama’s Senate seat, Illinois’ Senator an Ex-Gov. Blagojevich’s appointee, Roland Burris, granted the IFDA its trust license in 1980 as State Comptroller.
Then as ILLINOIS Comptroller he renewed that license 20X. He then lobbied for the IFDA in 2007. Senator Roland Burris(D-IL) after multiple requests has not said anything about he was paid for lobbying or if the funds came from the scandalous IFDA PRENEED TRUST.
Corruption in Illinois Goes From Death to the US Senate.
Illinois Funeral Directors Association Predicted their Lawsuit(s) and Demise.
News -The Illinois Funeral Directors Association commented on their current lawsuit situation early on. This is according to the State-Journal Register Newspaper in Springfield Illinois, yesterday.
IFDA Defends Preneed Funds, Fees In this article it was revealed that in a 2008 E-Mail the IFDA Prophesied its own lawsuit(s) and demise.
“But if you, our members, get nervous and start withdrawing your trust funds or filing lawsuits, it’s all over. The Trust, and perhaps even the IFDA, will not survive.”
In a response to this E-Mail I posted a blog post. “Will the IFDA lay off Everyone like NPS.”
So the one who prophesied about the IFDA lawsuit(s) and its own coming lower cost funeral(demise) is the Illinois Funeral Directors Association.
This reminds me of the old joke, talk of my demise(death) is greatly exaggerated.
Let it be said that the talk of the IFDA’s demise is not exaggerated but indeed likely!
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