Do-It-Yourself Funerals
You have more options than you probably think. Nowadays there are options of keeping the body at home with you for several days. These resources contain instructions and examples to help guide you through this option.
Global Resources
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| A Family Undertaking - 2004 PBS documentary |
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What is old is often new again. Most funerals today are part of a multimillion-dollar industry run by professionals. This increased reliance on mortuaries has alienated Americans from life's only inevitability — death. A Family Undertaking explores the growing home funeral movement by following several families in their most intimate moments as they reclaim the end of life, forgoing a typical mortuary funeral to care for their loved ones at home. Far from being a radical innovation, keeping funeral rites in the family or among friends is exactly how death was handled for most of pre-20th century America. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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| Natural Transitions Magazine |
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NATURAL TRANSITIONS MAGAZINE is the ONLY magazine on CONSCIOUS, HOLISTIC APPROACHES TO END OF LIFE that’s also a forum for professional end-of-life caregivers and families with loved-ones facing end-of-life transition. We are a vehicle for the alternative death care Movement. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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US Resources
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| National Home Funeral Alliance |
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We are a group of home funeral educators, guides and advocates all across the United States who have formed a non-profit alliance for the purpose of educating the consumer about the intrinsic value of a home funeral. We also promote education and community building among home funeral guides, green funeral advocates, and all those who support the rights of families and communities to care for their own dead. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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| Natural Transitions |
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This is a local Colorado organization dedicated to how to do your own funeral and caring for the body after death. This is a useful resource for people outside of Colorado as well. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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Colorado Resources
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| Natural Transitions |
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We are a NON-PROFIT RESOURCE CENTER 501(c)3 providing education on conscious, holistic, and green approaches to end of life, including family-directed home funerals.
The 2 aspects of our EDUCATIONAL WORK are our work with families and communities (presentations, consults with families and care groups, and workshops) – and OUR QUARTERLY, NATIONAL MAGAZINE. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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| Prairie Wilderness Cemetery |
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This is a local Colorado organization that is working on establishing locations where a body can be buried in a natural way with no chemicals, no cremation, all in a biodegradable way. They also provide information about burials and the difference between "green" and the more common practices. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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