This is a piece of news I have never seen before:
"4 years ago I lead a family-directed funeral for my mother. We did not use a licensed funeral director or mortuary. Mom died in Texas, and we made our own “hope chest” in which we placed her body after we washed and anointed it, and using our pick-up truck we took her body in the hope chest to Minnesota. This natural method cost less that $200, plus our travel to Minnesota (which we would have done anyway) plus the cost of the cemetery and pastor and church which we wanted anyway too.) We could express our Christian rituals and family times on our time-line, with no funeral director marshalling us along. It was an extremely meaningful way to give our final gifts in death care, and a way to give memorial gifts rather than wasting the $10,000 it would have cost if I had used the funeral homes at that time. You can reach me or get more information from the national Funeral consumers Alliance, at http://www.funerals.org. Rodger"
Posted as a comment on an article here on cremation:
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/po...01/15/is-embalming-a-big-anti-christian-deal/
"4 years ago I lead a family-directed funeral for my mother. We did not use a licensed funeral director or mortuary. Mom died in Texas, and we made our own “hope chest” in which we placed her body after we washed and anointed it, and using our pick-up truck we took her body in the hope chest to Minnesota. This natural method cost less that $200, plus our travel to Minnesota (which we would have done anyway) plus the cost of the cemetery and pastor and church which we wanted anyway too.) We could express our Christian rituals and family times on our time-line, with no funeral director marshalling us along. It was an extremely meaningful way to give our final gifts in death care, and a way to give memorial gifts rather than wasting the $10,000 it would have cost if I had used the funeral homes at that time. You can reach me or get more information from the national Funeral consumers Alliance, at http://www.funerals.org. Rodger"
Posted as a comment on an article here on cremation:
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/po...01/15/is-embalming-a-big-anti-christian-deal/
