Written & Visual Materials

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WRITTEN MATERIALS

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BROCHURES

• National Home Funeral Alliance, tri-fold educational brochure NHFA 
• Funeral Ethics Organization, brochures for each state about consumer rights and home funerals Funeral Ethics-Rights
• The Funeral Consumers Alliance (FCA) provides an informative brochure about the difference between Viewing and Visitation
• Home Funeral brochure offered by the FCA 

EDUCATIONAL FLYERS

• Hospice Handout, an informational sheet on the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association website about home funerals.
• Home Funerals Quick Info Sheet for Hospices. Compiled by Susan Oppie, R.N.
• A checklist for what is involved in a home funeral created by Donna Belk and Sandy Booth of Crossings Care Circle. Home Funeral Checklist

NHFA DOCUMENTS

• Restoring Families’ Rights to Choose, a position paper jointly written by the NHFA and the FCA regarding overcoming legal obstacles for families who choose to care for their own. Restoring Families' Rights to Choose
• NHFA Code of Ethics
  Codes of Ethics, Conduct and Practice
  

BOOKS

• Please click here for our book list, which is extensive and divided into easy-to-navigate categories

MAGAZINES

• Natural Transitions www.naturaltransitions.org
• Lilipoh Magazine January 2011 Death and Dying Issue www.lilipoh.com/index.aspx
  

ARTICLES

• Inside a Home Funeral, The Daily Beast, February 5, 2013 | Read
• Home Funerals Grow As Americans Skip The Mortician For Do-It-Yourself After-Death Care, Huffington Post, February 21, 2013 | Read
• For In-Home Funerals, a 21st Century Revival, Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 30, 2011
• Think Outside the Box, US Catholic Magazine, November, 2011
• Home Burials Offer an Intimate Alternative, New York Times, July 21, 2009
• The Surprising Satisfactions of a Home Funeral by Max Alexander, Smithsonian Magazine March 2009 | Read
• Home Funerals Restore Intimacy to Grieving Rituals by Adriana Barton, The Globe and Mail, Canada, May 26, 2010
• The High Cost of Dying, AARP Bulletin, October 2009
• Death Midwife Also Assists at the End of Life by Dawn Turner Trice, Chicago Tribune, November 21, 2011
• Standard Funeral Not Sole Option by Levi Pulkkinin, Seattle Times, March 2007 | Read
• More Families are Bringing Funerals Home by Joy Jernigan, MSNBCnews.com | Read
• Death Becomes Her, by Nancy Keats, Wall Street Journal Magazine | Read
• The Funeral: Your Last Chance to be a Big Spender by Gabriella Glaser, New York Times, April 200 | Read

BLOGS

• Beyond Hospice Blog  http://beyondhospice.com/?page_id=143
• The Order of the Good Death Blog www.orderofthegooddeath.com.blog
• The Family Plot Blog: funeral planning for those who don’t plan to die. www.thefamilyplot.wordpress.com
• Grave Matters: a journey through the modern funeral industry www.grave-matters.blogspot.com
• NHFA blog www.homefuneralalliance.org/Default.aspx?pageID=1081604
• Full Life Good Death Blog www.fulllifegooddeath.blogspot.com
• Embracing the End of Life Experience www.blog.sevenponds.com