Funeral Homes
- Basic Funeral Information
- Ask a Mortician: YouTube video
WARNING: Humor may be offensive to some
Funeral/Memorial Services Planning
- Funerals Are For the Living: Plan Now to Save: Slide Presentation
- Planning for a Funeral
- Planning a Memorial Service
Burial and Cremation
- Earth burial – a tradition in simplicity
- Burial and Cemeteries
- Caskets
- Cremation
- Embalming
- Autopsies
Funeral Costs
Did you know that funeral and memorial services, cremation, and burials vary widely in cost for identical services? That’s why it’s important to compare prices among funeral homes. Click here for the results of our latest Mortuary Price Survey, in which we compare prices—among more than 100 mortuaries in Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia — for Immediate Burial and Direct Cremation, the simplest of funeral arrangements.
- In April 2014, Washington Consumer Checkbook rated local funeral homes. Washington Area Funeral Homes Ratings
- How to read a funeral home’s general price list
- Basic Services Fee (the non-declinable fee)
- Veterans Funeral and Burial Benefits
- Resources available to help with final expenses – see article in Fall 2014 FCAME Newsletter
- 12 ways to avoid overpaying on funerals
- Disposing of unneeded cemetery plots – see article in Fall 2015 FCAME Newsletter
- Caskets – how to save on them
- Simple and cheap, my father said – by the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black
- Lay me to rest in a plain pine box – one mother’s letter to her children
Prepaying for Funeral Services
- Should You Prepay For Your Funeral?
- Prepaying your funeral – benefits and dangers
- Pre-need contracts to pay funeral expenses sometimes bring problems – see article in Fall 2015 FCAME Newsletter
- Three ways to prepay for a funeral – see article in Winter 2011 FCAME Newsletter
Organ, Tissue, and Body Donation
Alternatives to Traditional Practices
- Eco-Friendly Funeral Choices
- Home funerals need planning and assistance – see article in Spring 2016 FCAME Newsletter
- Home funeral is an option to consider – see article in Spring 2012 FCAME Newsletter
- Caring for your own dead – see article in Spring 2016 FCAME Newsletter
Related Topics
- Advance Health Care Directive and Living Will
- End of Life Non-Profit Organizations
- Books on Funeral Practices
- Jewish funeral practices – see article in Fall 2016 FCAME Newsletter
- Islamic burials – see article in Summer 2011 FCAME Newsletter.