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.)

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Create a Great Funeral Day is October 30th 2010. Create a Great Funeral Day has been around a couple of years. It is very important to plan your funeral but not to prepay.

A Funeral planner is a great asset in planning  a Funeral. If you live in the UK You should consider using A Good Funeral Guide by Charles Cowling.

For  the USA, Another  great resource is Death For Beginners by Karen Jones. Rest in Peace Insiders tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral will also help.

There is a New Book coming out that i  have read and recommend A Good Goodbye:Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die

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Death For Beginners|A Your Funeral Guy book review

In 2010 and into 2011 there  is an avalanche Funeral Books and ebooks(funeral) coming onto the scene. One book that I have chosen to review here(there will be more) is the Funeral Planning Book “Death For Beginners”. I received and read  an advance copy of this book. Here are some formal thoughts on this work.

Death for Beginners Your No-Nonsense, Money-Saving Guide to Planning for the Inevitable by Karen Jones Publication Date: June 2010  $12.95 ($13.95 Canada) • Paperback • 226 pages  ISBN 978-1-884995-61-3

Death for Beginners is a book about how to accomplish the difficult but necessary task of planning for your death. It’s a quick “grab, read and workbook “with your life” type of guide, The work is useful to Baby Boomers and their parents, and in a sudden death or illness..

There is not volumes of text or workbook writing involved and there are easy ways to make choices. Step-by-step chapters with bulleted formatted topics are presented. Topics are presented with data, definitions, examples, pros and cons, costs, Internet links, and questions to answer. Streamlined, worksheets that can be ripped and filed make the process simple.

Internet Links to Websites keeps Death for Beginners from becoming a rambling book about death that becomes confusing. If you are interested in the options presented, you can go directly to a website and explore your interests.

Karen Jones is not a funeral industry insider and is not writing with the eyes of a funeral director. Excellent for the every-day-person looking for answers, examples of the costs for services are given, emphasizing practicality and frugality. This provides the reader with valuable information on saving money. Options and topics are presented that do not come up in a traditional funeral arrangement. It presents both the traditional and alternative death and funeral choices.

The work entertains while presenting difficult information, Avoiding funeral lingo, the quips, quick humorous vignettes and sidebars are slightly bizarre yet informative and appreciated.

Death for Beginners respects the individual’s funeral needs. Affordable and easy to use, this book will help you avoid expensive choices made in grief. By easing the emotional and financial burden on loved ones left behind, the work will help with your final events.

Funeral Industry Funeral Blog by Your Funeral Guy R.Brian Burkhardt, Funeral Director Illinois and Virginia, Author of “Rest in Peace Insiders Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral”

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