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The Funeral Consumers Alliance of East Tennessee is a non-profit
organization dedicated to educating and empowering consumers to make wise
choices when planning for funerals or other end-of-life procedures and
ceremonies. It does this by:
- Providing new members with a packet of useful information (the
contents are listed below);
- Surveying East
Tennessee funeral homes every two years in every county where there are
members to obtain prices for immediate burials and direct cremations,
and publishing the results in the annual newsletter that is mailed to
all members;
- Monitoring actions in
the Tennessee Legislature that would affect consumer choice in funeral
planning;
- Supporting the Funeral Consumers Alliance (FCA), the
largest organization in America fighting for consumers on death-care
issues;
- Enabling member to
obtain discounts on books, brochures and videos offered by the FCA;
- Accepting members
transferring from other FCA affiliates;
- Offering speakers for
organizations and community education courses.
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The
Funeral Consumers Alliance of East Tennessee, a 501(c)(4) non-profit
corporation, and registered as a non-profit corporation in the State of
Tennessee, serves most of East Tennessee, excepting Chattanooga and
Hamilton County. Members of the Board of Directors are elected by the
membership at the Annual Meetings, and are volunteers who meet regularly to
conduct business. The annual meeting is held in the fall, with the location
variously in Knoxville, Oak Ridge, Pleasant Hill, or Fairfield Glade.
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Benefits
of membership
New members receive a packet containing the following:
- Dealing Creatively
with Death: A Manual of Death Education and Simple Burial by Ernest Morgan.
- "Funerals: A
Consumer Guide" - published by the Federal Trade Commission,
detailing consumer rights under federal regulations
- "Personal
Inventory" - a 12-page form where you may record information
that is important for your survivors to complete a death certificate,
to arrange for your funeral or other ceremony, to write an obituary,
to notify family and friends, and to provide location and other
information about important documents.
- Copies of the
Tennessee Advance Care Plan (Living Will) and Appointment of Health
Care Agent.
- Set of 10 pamphlets
on useful topics, such as funeral planning, cremation, when death
occurs away from home, veterans funeral benefits, pros and cons of
prepayment etc.
- The most recent
Funeral Price Survey which lists the charges for direct burial and
immediate cremation by East Tennessee funeral homes.
All members receive an annual newsletter each fall, announcing the
Annual Meeting and containing the latest Funeral Price Survey.
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P.O. Box 10507
Knoxville, TN 37939
Tel: 865-483-4843 or 931-277-5853
Email: fcaetn@gmail.com
or raridon@hotmail.com
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