Date Time set For Senator Ted Stevens Funeral-Your Funeral Guy

Image via Wikipedia

A Date and and time has been set for the Former Alaska Senators Funeral. The Funeral Will take place Wednesday August 18th, at 6pm in Anchorage Alaska at the Anchorage Baptist Temple.

On  Aug. 17th, Sen. Ted Stevens will be lying in repose at All Saints Episcopal Church, located at 545 w. 8th Ave.. Members of the public are invited to pay their respects.

Visitation between 10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m..

The public is invited  Anchorage Baptist Temple on Wednesday, Aug. 18 at 2 p.m. local time  for Stevens’ funeral.

These are the Funeral Arrangements tat have been made public at this time.

The late Ted Stevens of Alaska, the longest serving Republican senator who was killed Monday night in a plane crash outside Dillingham, AK, will be remembered in a ceremony next Wednesday in Anchorage at the Anchorage Baptist Temple.

A notice was sent to senators, who are currently out for a month-long summer recess, informing them of the time, 6pm ET.

via politics.blogs.foxnews.com

Funeral Industry|Funeral News |Funeral Blog by Your Funeral Guy

Related articles by Zemanta

• Stevens funeral set for next week (cnn.com)

Your Funeral Guy Blog Exclusive: World’s First Green Cremation, Alkaline Hydroloysis Center open

Typical American Crematorium Image via Wikipedia

The worlds first green cremation center has opened in Australia.  In June Your Funeral Guy became aware that an Alkaline Hydrolysis machine was being shipped to Australia.

Alkaline hydrolysis or water cremation will revolutionize the Funeral Industry Around the World. The process can be done at cost less  to the consumer-much  less than a traditional cremation without polluting the atmosphere. In Fact the process helps the environment. This will help consumers funeral cost everywhere in the world.

Your Funeral Guy  first blogged about the demonstration of  a machine like the one in Australia  in June. Click Here to View pictures.

The process is a  winner all the way around. Good for the consumer, good for the funeral industry, good for the environment, good for the world’s religions-(gods will not object, it is simply accelerated decomposition)

Aquamation Industries chief executive John Humphries says the service, at the Eco Memorial Park at Stapylton near Dreamworld, uses a process it hopes will revolutionise the funeral industry.

“Aquamation is a more natural, ethical and environmentally friendly alternative to cremations and uses water instead of fire to return a body to nature,” the Courier Mail quoted Humphries as saying.

“And within a year we would expect you would be able to have this done anywhere in Australia,” he stated.

via www.newkerala.com

Funeral Industry| Funeral Blog|Funeral News by Your Funeral Guy

The process is known as bio cremation, water resolution, green cremation, aquamation, water cremation

Related articles by Zemanta

• Better Dying Through Chemicals: Environmentally Friendly Ways to Go (ecosalon.com)

Memorial service for Alaska Senator Ted Stevens Set|YourFuneral Guy

Image via Wikipedia

There are no official family plans for a the former  Alaskan  senator Ted Stevens Funeral Yet.  But there are plans for a memorial mass in Anchorage set for Monday. It is not clear whether there will be some sort of US National “State” Funeral for Stevens but surely Alaska will have a state like celebration in his honor

Stevens’ family has not yet released plans on a funeral service, but there will be a memorial Mass Monday at the Holy Family Cathedral, at 12:10 p.m. It is not Stevens’ funeral, but rather a way for the archdiocese to honor him.

The public is invited to attend.

via www.ktuu.com

Funeral Industry | Funeral News|

Related articles by Zemanta

• Former Sen. Ted Stevens remembered (cnn.com)
• Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens Killed in Plane Crash (biggovernment.com)

Former Congressman Dan Rowstenkowski dies|funeral to come-Your Funeral Guy

Image via Wikipedia

Former Congressman Dan Rostenkowski has died, Once the Head of the powerful Ways and Means committee. There was a time when he sent billions back to Chicago.  There are no public plans for a funeral at this time.

Dan Rostenkowski, a product of the Chicago Democratic political machine who rose to become one of the most powerful members of the U.S. House of Representatives before he lost his seat and was jailed on felony corruption charges, died Wednesday at his home in Wisconsin. He was 82.

The son of a Chicago alderman and ward committeeman who trafficked in political favors, Mr. Rostenkowski entered Congress in 1959 with the backing of Mayor Richard J. Daley, patriarch of the city’s machine. As the mayor’s man in Washington, Mr. Rostenkowski delivered billions of dollars of federal largesse to Chicago, including $450 million to repair the city’s John F. Kennedy Expressway and $4 billion for the Deep Tunnel project to keep sewage out of Lake Michigan.

His death was confirmed Wednesday by the office of Chicago Alderman Richard Mell.

via www.washingtonpost.com

Funeral industry|Funeral News|Funeral Blog by Your Funeral Guy

Alaska Senator Stevens dies in a plane crash|Funeral ahead-YourFuneralGuy

Image via Wikipedia

The Former Alaska  Senator Ted Stevens has died in a plane crash, There may be as state Funeral ahead. It will happen in Alaska but it remains to be seen if it will be a National Celebration.

There are no public funeral arrangements at this time.  Ted Stevens was the longest running Republican Senate Member in United States History.

He lost his Senate bid in 2008 by 3700 votes and was victim of a false prosecution before the Senate Election.

Funeral Industry| Funeral News Funeral Blog by Your funeral Guy

Related articles by Zemanta

• Former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens Dies In Plane Crash (outsidethebeltway.com)
• Former Alaska senator Stevens died in plane crash – friend (newsinfo.inquirer.net)
• Ex-Senator Killed In Alaska Plane Crash (news.sky.com)

Dead Twitter Society Arrives|Your Funeral Guy

Image by JoshSemans via Flickr

Twitter has now come up with a policy on deceased Users. Essentially if some one dies there are two basic options Options are delete the account, or receive archived tweets.

Here is a snippet  of Their Policy:

If we are notified that a Twitter user has passed away, we can remove their account or assist family members in saving a backup of their public Tweets.

Please contact us with the following information:

1. Your full name, contact information (including email address), and your relationship to the deceased user.
2. The username of the Twitter account, or a link to the profile page of the Twitter account.
3. A link to a public obituary or news article.

You can contact us at privacy@twitter.com, or by mail or fax:

via support.twitter.com

The verification process is not too cumbersome. One has to only submit a newspaper article or an obituary.

Social media has along way to go on digital death and dying

Funeral industry|Funeral Blog by Your Funeral Guy digital funeral director

Related articles by Zemanta

• What Happens to Your Twitter Account When You Die? (mashable.com)
• Twitter Establishes Deceased User Policy (webpronews.com)

Folks from NPS Funeral Home getting some preneed relief-Your Funeral Guy

Image via Wikipedia

Folks at the  Mount Washington Forever Funeral Home  in Independence Missouri are getting some preneed, prepaid funeral relief. Their policies which they paid under  a National Prearranged Services prepaid funeral policies were eclare no longer valid.

But two Funeral Home chains are lending a hand and folks have been getting credits on their NPS Policies.

Representatives of Charter Funerals and Speaks Family Legacy Chapels said hundreds of Mount Washington Forever clients had brought in paperwork documenting their transactions with Mount Washington, which ceased operations in July.

A substantial number have agreed to new contracts, taking advantage of credits offered by the companies.

What remains unclear is the fate of payments made on contracts to National Prearranged Services Inc., a St. Louis area company that figures in federal litigation alleging fraud in as many as 19 states.

via www.kansascity.com

Funeral industry| Funeral News| funeral Blog by Your Funeral Guy

Coroner pleads not guilty to giving away dead person’s TV|Your Funeral Guy

Image via Wikipedia

A coroner outside of Chicago land has pleaded Not  guilty to giving away a dead person’s tv to 2 of his deputies. This is a strange case of death care gone bizarre.

There is no excuse for lack of ethics from elected officials and especially those who handle deaths.

The Kane County coroner has pleaded not guilty to charges that he allowed a TV to be taken from a house where a death was being investigated.

Charles West entered the plea during his arraignment Friday. He’s charged with five counts of felony misconduct. His attorney, Gary Johnson, didn’t return a call seeking comment Saturday.

via www.chicagobreakingnews.com

Funeral Industry|Funeral News| Funeral Blog by Your Funeral Guy.

Funeral and Cemetery Preneed Down in the suburbs|Your Funeral Guy

Image by ChicagoGeek via Flickr

Funeral and cemetery Preneed, the  advanced purchase of prepaid funerals and burial sites seems to be down in the suburbs. This is what is being reported in a collar county outside Chicago.

Less money spent on preneed or prepaid funerals means a downward trend in Funeral Cost.

People still purchase rights to burial, but not like they once did. Society’s transient nature and the economy are contributing to more cremations and fewer rights to burial purchased in advance, those involved with funerals and cemeteries said.

“It’s not like they used to years ago when a family member buys 16 graves for the whole family,” said Roger Ronzheimer, superintendent for the St. Charles Township cemeteries.

via www.kcchronicle.com

Funeral industry| Funeral News | Funeral Blog by Your Funeral Guy

Arlington National Cemetery to get “Tech Help”-YourFuneralGuy

Image via Wikipedia

The US Army is to get some Some Corporate tech help with it’s problems at Arlington National Cemetery, 15 Tech companies will be helping with  the computerization of Arlington National Cemetery Burial Records.

These Corporate Good Samaritans will be assisting in bringing the burial records into  computer data bases. This should end much of the controversy of the paper record system.

Snippet

The U.S. Army has accepted a pro-bono offer from more than a dozen Northern Virginia technology companies to help sort out a burial records mess at Arlington National Cemetery, Sen. Mark Warner announced Friday.

The 15 firms — members of the Northern Virginia Technology Council — extended the offer after an Army probe turned up mislabeled and unaccounted-for graves and a haphazard paper record-keeping system in use at the cemetery. The group will gauge the site’s information technology challenges and begin digitizing the documents.

Warner, D-Va., in a statement, called the effort “corporate citizenship at its best.”

“All of us were frustrated and angered to learn that Arlington Cemetery officials continued to rely on paper records, which means we are one fire, rainstorm or coffee spill away from damaging or even losing these truly irreplaceable records,” he said.

via www.bizjournals.com

Funeral Industry|Funeral News|Funeral Blog By Your Funeral Guy