Top Three Funeral Books in 2010-YourFuneralGuy

There have been three great funeral books published in 2010 that can help with Funerals and your funeral cost. These book state the principles presented in Rest in Peace: Insider Tips to the Low Cost  Less Stress Funeral. The First one is A Good Goodbye by Gail Rubin a new funeral book from the USA.

A Good Goodbye will help readers design a meaningful, memorable, healing end-of-life ritual, reducing costs and confusion while avoiding family discord and stress added to grief.

A Good Goodbye will be especially helpful for interfaith families who might not know much about their own religious traditions, let alone their partner’s. The religious funeral traditions chapter can help prompt interfaith conversations.

via agoodgoodbye.com

The second one is Death for Beginners by Karen Jones. This is an effective Funeral planner and Digital Funeral Planner.

Death for Beginners makes funeral planning smart,thrifty, stress-free and funny

Written in a time-saving “grab, read, do and get on with your life” bullet-point format, Death for Beginners lets readers quickly grasp essential information, decide what issues are most important to them, and further explore these topics.

via deathforbeginners.com

The Third is from Across The Pond  The Good Funeral Guide by Charles Cowling

The Good Funeral Guide will tell you everything you need to know and everything you need to do when someone dies.

It will inform you speedily, efficiently, matter-of-factly and thoroughly. It will enable you to:

• decide how the body of the person who has died will be cared for and who will do it
• make informed choices about products and services
• get best value for money
• read reviews of best funeral directors
• create a meaningful and memorable funeral ceremony
• create an end-of-life plan
• acquire some background information about death and dying, and find out where to learn more.

Above all, The Good Funeral Guide will put you in charge.

via www.goodfuneralguide.co.uk

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Your Funeral Guy Is not financially vested-  with the authors or publishers of these books.(has no financial involvement with the three 2010 books.)

Author reports on 30 Funerals in 30 days-Your Funeral Guy

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Author Gail Rubin has been reporting on 30 Funerals in 30 days. Today she is giving a guest post on this unique challenge.

Since I started going to a funeral or memorial service daily and blogging about it at The Family Plot Blog, I’ve noticed some interesting trends and learned about the lives of some amazing people.

I started my personal the “30 Funerals in 30 Days Challenge” on October 30, the 11^th annual Create a Great Funeral Day, with the following goals:

• Show that funerals are a life cycle event much like a wedding, best planned more than a few days ahead of time.
• Illustrate the many creative ways people celebrate the lives of those they love.
• Help reduce a fear of talking about death – something that will happen to us all.

So far, I’ve covered 16 services and blogged about 14 of them. The deceased have ranged in age from 30 to 91 years old. A few observations:

• Cremation is definitely a rising trend. Of the 16 events to date, six had a body in a casket present. One of those was going to be cremated after the funeral. (The family used a rental casket.)
• One person’s body was donated to a medical school.
• One person’s body was being flown to another state for burial.
• One person’s body had not been recovered.
• Cell phones are a pervasive distraction at those services where no one tells the assembled to silence or turn off their devices.

At every service, I have been welcomed. No one has questioned my presence. My posts have described elements of the service, the person being honored, mentions of hymns, psalms, and songs used in the service.

Something new at The Family Plot is video blogging that started with this project. Using a FlipCamera on a tripod, after every service I record some thoughts. Some of the more memorable moments include having the hearse I was standing next to drive off in the midst of the recording, doing a report in the casket room of a funeral home, and a report standing before a cemetery statue of giant hands in prayer.

Only 14 more services to cover! I’ll be sure to report back on more.

Gail Rubin’s forthcoming book, A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die (Light Tree Press), provides the information, inspiration and tools to plan and implement creative, meaningful and memorable end-of-life rituals for people and pets. Copies may be reserved at a pre-publication discount at www.AGoodGoodbye.com.

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