Here are recent articles from national (and more local) media on the growing
popularity of home wakes, vigils, and home funerals. We will update this
page with new articles as they are published. (The offsite links open in a
new page).
The Daily Beast recently ran an account by Melissa Roberts Weidman, a
hospice worker who assisted at the
home funeral of a young man named Wes, whom she had known
all his life and who had died in an automobile accident. “This is the
way it should be done,” Weidman writes.
Home Funerals and Burials in Massachusetts is an article
published by the National Organic Farming Association. It tells the story of
one home funeral guide and her journey to the profession.
