Your Funeral Guy: Roland Burris inbeded in Scandal.

Roland Burris is in- bed-ed in the Illinois Funeral Directors Mismangement Debacle or Scandal. In order to prevent another funeral industry/funeral cost  coverup this Senate Nominee needs to answer questions on what he did for the Illinois Funeral Directors Association association as a lobbyist.

On Dec 30th it was announced that Roland Burris was a lobbyist for the Illinios Funeral Directors Association. In Illinos funeral cost has been drastically affected by the IFDA Preneed  Trust Fund Mismanagement Debacle. So has funeral industry reputation.

The Illinois Funeral Directors Association lost 59 million dollars in their fund. Burris served a s a lobbyist  for the Illinois Funeral Directors Asscociation.

The Barack Obama Senate seat nominee needs to reveal what he did while he was in-bed-ed  with the Illinois Funeral Directors Association.

How much has he been paid by the IFDA?

Whom did he lobby for the IFDA?

What were the the Issues?

When did he begin lobbying for the IFDA and when did he stop?

Did he lobby regulators of the funeral industry?

Was he paid with Preneed Trust fund money?

These are just a few Questions that need answers.

These thing need to be revealed now rather than later.

The United States of America  and the State of Illinois cannot afford to wait.

Way to go Governor Blagojeich it appears you may have put another cover-up guy in power

Blog by Your Funeral Guy, Author, Funeral Director, State of Illinois.

Your Funeral Guy:Funeral Cost too High in the USA!(last 2 weeks)

Your Funeral Guy:Funeral Cost too High in the USA!(last 2 weeks). Funerals always cost too much in any situation because a person is involved. But the death of these folks is too much funeral cost to the  world. May they all rest in peace. All three.

First there was the Tim Russert  Wake and Memorial Service:
The funeral cost to the nation was too great.
Maria Shriver read the poem….The Little Ship in Washington DC. Bruce Springsteen was front and center.
It would be wrong not to repeat it. It is one of the best funeral poems ever written.

The Wife of the Actor and  California governor “Arnold” gave a great funeral poem.

“The Little Ship”

I stood watching as the little ship sailed out to sea. The setting sun tinted his white sails with a golden light, and as he disappeared from sight a voice at my side whispered, “He is gone”.

“But the sea was a narrow one. On the farther shore a little band of friends had gathered to watch and wait in happy expectation. Suddenly they caught sight of the tiny sail and, at the very moment when my companion had whispered, “He is gone” a glad shout went up in joyous welcome, “Here he comes!”

A Good post on this is here:
http://www.tellinitlikeitis.net/2008/06/maria-shriver-poem-at-tim-russerts-funeral-service.html

Then there was the  funeral song “over the rainbow”. People walked out of his memorial service to this Rainbow. Was this a blessing from the man upstairs(apologies to atheists if this does not make you a believer nothing will)

If you do not cry during this Video! You are not human. Barack Obama and John McCain sat together at this event. If you ever click on a Your Funeral Guy, funeral cost link click on this one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBddo1RGiJU

Then there was the Tasha Tudor death: The great literary illustrator original  green lady died.
Kids will miss her. Even guys read “The Secret Garden.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/22/AR2008062202026.html”

As if this was not enough we also lost to funeral cost, George Carlin the modern Free Speech almost pornographic comedian. The famous 7 words guy.

Even Jerry Seinfeld is coming back to honor him.

In the 2 weeks Funeral Cost has been too high in the USA!
May all Rest in Peace.
Now there is more funeral story and history in Rest in Peace.

Rest in Peace: Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral by R Brian Burkhardt and Matt Bacak

Your Funeral Guy:Funeral Directors Raise Funeral Cost-The apprentice

The Funeral Cost of a Funeral Director is about 20 to 26 USD a hour in 2008. It is a large factor in the average cost of a funeral.

The funeral home owner cost is much more. If you use the traditional funeral home engage the funeral owner’s (or manager )services—- you certainly are paying for the service. Here are two of the Tricks funeral home owners employ is to raise funeral cost.

1. use apprentices to lower their cost

demand a licensed person!

2. limit the time that funeral directors spend with you without lowering your cost.

take as much time as you need!

A simple tip to lower funeral cost is to ask for a green funeral, green burial and information on the average cost of a funeral. Remember it is best to be your own funeral advocate.

More information on what is involved with a funeral and Average Funeral Cost here in two books.

Two books have contributed to the Funeral cost reduction situation.

Mark Harris’s “Grave Matters”:

Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial by Mark Harris

And “Rest in Peace” by R. Brian Burkhardt and Matt Bacak.

Rest in Peace: Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral by R Brian Burkhardt and Matt Bacak

Both these books creatively examine the issues around green funerals and burials and funeral costs.

More information on this can be found at the Funeral Consumer Alliance, Green Burial Council and the AARP

in this article:

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/consumersmarts/archives/141653.asp

Photo Credit: Getty Images

Your Funeral Guy: Call Funeral Directors to honesty on Funeral Cost

Your Funeral Guy: Call Funeral Directors to honesty on Funeral Cost

Recently I thanked a Funeral Director on another blog for his honesty on Funeral Cost.

Here is what I said it is worth repeating here:

“Thank you for your honesty.

we share a trust level well short of that of mechanics, stockbrokers, real estate and insurance agents. This information should be a wake up call.

Only a few in our profession are this honest and candid. On another blog on this site I have mentioned & commented on some scandals. They are the result of the sins of more than a few. Let it be known that inspite of some blogs and comments that are tough, I have withheld information from the media on these events. Instead I have called on Leaders in the Funeral Industry to be honest. You sir are a part of the city set on the hill.

Your ethics are appreciated. I love helping families and for that reason I wrote a new book called Rest in Peace. In this work I declare that there are honest ethical funeral directors like yourself who are willing to embrace the changes that are to come!”

It is my hope that the ILLINOIS FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION (IFDA )will embrace ethics and honesty.

Right now I just find myself too busy helping folks lower the cost of their funerals…to keep up with this.

The IFDA knows the changes that are coming.

To the IFDA I Wish you the best.

There will be blogs here from time to time as things become public on the IFDA Funeral cost issue and the “IFDA Preneed Trust.”

The IFDA has had it’s wake up call.

Earlier this year it came out that the IFDA- had mis managed 40 Million Dollars of the folks “IFDA Preneed Trust” money in Illinois.

Beware of organizations like the IFDA in keeping Funeral Directors Honest and keeping your lower cost funeral Specific State Senator Randall Hulfgren refused to take action on this along with hultgrenfh. Hultgren Funeral Home is not the only culprit. Trimble Funeral Homes www.trimblefuneralhomes.com had family on the IFDA committees and has refused comment on the IFDA Preneed Trust situation inspite of positve press from…Quad-City Dispatch

More information on keeping funeral directors honest can be found here including average funeral cost:

Rest in Peace: Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral by R Brian Burkhardt and Matt Bacak. #1 International Best Selling Author Jason Oman also gave thumbs up to this book. This book is published by Morgan James Publishing.

Your Funeral Guy, R Brian Burkhardt, Funeral Director, Author, Blogger, State of Illinois

Your Funeral Guy: Low Funeral Cost Cemetery Video and TV

Here is You tube video that shows why low funeral cost cemeteries are needed. The low cost funeral cemetery is a green cemetery. Update Nov 18, 2008 This link has been taken down by you tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GGvaHFbJZY

try this link instead for a view of a low cost cemetery.

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=92649&videoChannel=74

CSI, Donation to Science, Organ Donor, Green Funeral, Cremation, but not Funeral Cost–TV. Modern Marvels:Corpse Tech.
This was a very informative television program. From the decomposing of bodies, to the traditional funeral business. There was even a look inside cremation ovens.

The cemetery of the future was addressed. The focus was on the San Francisco Area. The Green Cemetery and the green funeral.
Funeral Cost that can be saved in cremation and green was not addressed,
The good news is that the series Modern Marvels: Corpse Tech continues to shown on the History channel.

The shows how the dead help the living.
Organ donation, tissue donation and research.
The newest and best cremation machines were featured.
Good Stuff.

The statistics given in the show were not entirely accurate coming from 2006.
Cremation rates are up. Funeral Cost is down.

More info with average Funeral Cost Information can be found here.

Rest in Peace: Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral by R Brian Burkhardt and Matt Bacak. #1 International Best Selling Author Jason Oman also gave thumbs up to this book.

Your Funeral Guy, R Brian Burkhardt, Funeral Director, Author, Blogger, State of Illinois

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Your Funeral Guy: History Channel Special to run Cremation-Funeral Cost Special.-June 20th 2008

Do you want funeral cost lowered? Low cost cremation anyone? Green cremation anyone? Yes- the History Channel is to run a Funeral Cost Cremation -”Special on the TV show Modern Marvels on the History Channel- (June 20th 2008) If you miss it this it will be most likely re-aired.

It will also include information on medical organ donation.

Credit goes to The Funeral Insider Guys on this one:

“History Channel To Explore Death in Modern Marvels: Corpse Tech

“The History Channel will explore cremation, the role of the medical examiner, organ and tissue donation and more during a show to air at 8 p.m. on Friday, June 20th in MODERN MARVELS: CORPSE TECH.The show’s theme will be “Adventures of the Body After Life.”

In a news release, Facultatieve Technologies announced that a portion of the show would feature its cremation equipment.

Check your local listings to make sure you don’t miss the program.”

Here is a link to this quote:

http://www.katesboylston.com/fsx_jun13/fsxjun13b.html:

Here is a quote from the a company  featured in this special.

These below average  funeral cost options are addressed in

June 20th, 8.00 pm: Facultatieve Technologies on the History Channel
In America, the popular Modern Marvels programme is broadcast daily by the ‘History Channel’. Each programme deals with unusual stories behind a broad range of subjects; from simple tools and technical discoveries to human miracles. On 20 June 2008 (8.00 pm), it will dedicate an entire programme to cremation and its origins, with Facultatieve Technologies being invited as the expert opinion. This is to be expected, as Facultatieve Technologies leads the pack in the field of designing, constructing and maintaining cremation ovens, both in the US and across the globe. This international organisation has been active in the branch since 1908, endowing with it a vast repository of in-house experience and expertise. The programme meets the staff, and visits the main site with all its facilities. It will cover the history of cremation, but will chiefly focus on its future, discussing, for instance, the environmentally-friendly units made by Facultatieve Technologies in Medina. Would you like to know more, or watch previous Modern Marvels programmes? Then click here Here is the link:

http://www.facultatieve-technologies.com/webgen.aspx?p=992&o=7260

Your Funeral Guy gives credit where Credit is due.

More information can be found here:

Rest in Peace: Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral by R Brian Burkhardt and Matt Bacak. #1 International Best Selling Author Jason Oman also gave thumbs up to this book.

Your Funeral Guy, R Brian Burkhardt, Funeral Director, Author, Blogger, State of Illinois

Your Funeral Guy: Walt Disney had low Funeral cost

Your Funeral Guy reminds you Walt Disney had low Funeral cost. Walt Disney hated to go to Funerals so there was this new low funeral cost Cremation thing. Here is where his ashes are placed a low funeral cost grave for 1966. 42 Years later Forest Lawn in Glendale California is not a low cost funeral place. My theory is that because Walt Disney was an ambulance driver in WWI he hated death, funerals and funeral cost.

It is an urban legend that Disney had his body frozen. He was a pioneer in death and made the cremation choice.

Disney’s involvement in Disney World ended in late 1966; after too much smoking. It was said Walt Disney hated funerals. His family made the low funeral cost choice of doing everything including the funeral at the Cemetery.

Remarkably Disney’s Wife died 31 years to the day of WALT DISNEY’s Death.

More information on Celebrity deaths and funeral cost can be found here:

Rest in Peace: Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral by R Brian Burkhardt and Matt Bacak. #1 International Best Selling Author Jason Oman also gave thumbs up to this book. This book is published by Morgan James Publishing.

Your Funeral Guy, R Brian Burkhardt, Funeral Director, Author, Blogger, State of Illinois

As far as I know no one has done a Funeral for Mickey Mouse. However he and his wife presided over the funeral of the first mouse, Mortimer. OK His wife said the name should be Mickey not Mortimer mouse.

Your Funeral Guy: Testimonials About “Rest in Peace” the Authority on Funeral Cost

Rest in Peace Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral has been called the authority on Funeral Cost. Here are some recent Testimonials. Each one a Real “Zingwacker”:

“ Food for thought indeed! A very informative easy read handbook. Nice to know these options are available.”

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“Wow Your book is wonderful compassionate professional wise, helpful practical and well written.

These pages are an invaluable reference for anyone facing a Funeral. The practical advice is liberally laced with genuine compassion and moving anecdotes. I highly recommend this book.

It belongs in everyones reference library”

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Best Selling Author

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So what are you waiting for go on Search Inside and Get a copy! Do your Low Cost Funeral! The book promotes your broad prosperity and personal Freedom!

Your Funeral Guy: 5 ways the Funeral Rule Helps You with Your Lower Cost Funeral

In the book “Rest in Peace” (Rest in Peace, Insider Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral) you are given a Funeral Bill of Rights based upon the funeral rule.The Funeral Rule was upheld in March 2008, by the Federal Trade Commission. ( FTC)The Funeral Rule protects your rights to a lower cost Funeral And Helps you with Funeral Cost.

1. 1.You have the right to choose ONLY the funeral goods and services you want.

This means you are in charge. Remember your wants and needs come before that of the Funeral Director.

2. 2. The funeral provider must state or identify the goods and services in writing on the general price list.

3. 3. If you visit a Funeral Home you Must be given a casket price list.

Many Funeral Homes purposely do not do this—so they can make a huge profit on the casket.

4. 4.The funeral provider may not refuse, or charge a fee, to handle a third party casket you bought elsewhere.

It is usually best to get the casket off the internet.

5. 5.A funeral provider that offers cremations must make alternative containers available.

An alternative container is a cardboard type of container that is used in cremation in place of the casket.

· TERMS in the Funeral Rule:

Funeral goods” are products sold directly to the public in connection with funeral services or a funeral.

Funeral services” are services used to care for and prepare bodies for burial, cremation, or other final disposition. Funeral services and Funerals are also used to arrange, supervise, or conduct the funeral ceremony or final disposition of human remains.

Hospitals have their patient advocates….Who will be Your Funeral Advocate? FIND OUT HERE:

Rest in Peace: Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral by R Brian Burkhardt and Matt Bacak. This work promotes broad prosperity, personal freedom, and a better future for all. It saves YOU money.

Your Funeral Guy, R.Brian Burkhardt, Author, Funeral Director, State Of Illinois, Commonwealth of Virginia,

 

Your Funeral Guy: Special Thanks to Matt Bacak for help with “Rest in Peace”

Matt Bacak was a great encouragement in the writing of “Rest in Peace Insiders Tips tp the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral. Your Funeral Guy attended Matt Bacak’s MIT workshop in July of 2007, where Matt privately encouraged R. Brian Burkhardt, Your Funeral Guy to refine his manuscript and move it towards Publication. The work helps people with their Funeral Cost.
R Brian Burkhardt became deathly ill in the summer of 2007 and came very close to death in August 2007. Your Funeral Guy continued working on the manuscript but became quite upset when the manuscript was “kidnapped.”

With some legal help your Funeral Guy was able to get the manuscript back. R.Brian Burkhardt immediately showed the manuscript to Matt Bacak. This happened at one of Matt Bacak’s Big Boy Boot Camps. Matt recommended Your Funeral Guy to his own Publisher.

Quite Quickly the publisher accepted the work and Your Funeral Guy and “Rest in Peace” went through the Publication Process.

The Result Rest in Peace will be published on May 1st 2008.

Your Funeral Guy is eternally great full to Matt Bacak. Go to one of Matt Bacak’s seminars for help with your business or project.

Your Funeral Guy. Author and Funeral Director.

The work simply helps folks with the “life” part of a funeral. You can have a lower cost funeral without sacrificing dignity and honor. Order the book here.

Rest in Peace: Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral by R Brian Burkhardt and Matt Bacak