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Advice Column - answers to reader questions

We'll select consumer questions or complaints on common funeral topics, and publish them here with our responses. We change reader names to protect your privacy. Send your funeral or burial-related questions to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Grave decoration: what's reasonable?

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Dear FCA,
In January 2007, my stepson passed away. The family has gone to the cemetery weekly since then, decorating and cleaning the marker area as well as trimming the grass surrounding the marker with no opposition from the cemetery owners or the management.

The cemetery now has a new manager who has ripped out all decorations and posted a sign stating that there are "updated" cemetery regulations.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:53 ) Read more...
 



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The Funeral Consumers Alliance (FCA) is a Federation of Nonprofit Consumer Information Societies protecting a consumer's right to choose a meaningful, dignified, affordable funeral since 1963.