National Home Funeral
Alliance — This is a national organization of home funeral guides,
advocates, and supporters. Includes an enormous amount of useful information
and shows how this movement is growing all over the country.
Crossings: Caring for Our
Own at Death — Crossings is a non-profit educational organization
which is a home funeral and green/natural burial resource center. They
provide trainings, workshops, consultations, and printed materials that give
families the courage, confidence, and contacts to perform home funeral
care.
Green Burial
Council — This is a non-profit organization whose goal is to
reduce the carbon emissions, waste, and use of toxic chemicals in the
cemetary/funeral field and to utilize burial as a means of acquiring,
restoring, and stewarding natural areas. Phone 888-966-3330.
Green Burial
Massachusetts — This statewide, non-profit organization provides
educational programs about natural burial, advocates on behalf of
individuals who choose natural burial, and provides consultation and
technical assistance to municipalities and non-profit organizations
interested in natural burial.
Funeral Consumers
Alliance — This most comprehensive source for funeral information
includes Before I Go, You Should Know®, the comprehensive
end-of-life planner. Featuring illustrations by Edward Gorey, BIG has more
than 30 pages to record everything from your preference for burial or
cremation to how to close down your social media accounts and online
life.
