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The FCA bookstore provides valuable resources for learning more about the funeral process, planning, and options available to consumers. If you would prefer not to order online, please call 800-765-0107 to order by credit card or send us a check via mail.

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Notice: The online bookstore is only for purchases within the United States. If you are located outside the U.S., please contact the FCA office directly to place your order. Email leda@funerals.org or call us at 802-865-8300.

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Before I Go, You Should Know - Funeral Planning Kit

$12.00
Every adult American should have one in the freezer. What? Before I Go, You Should Know — an end-of-life planning kit. Comes in a plastic button-tie pouch with 
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Dealing Creatively With Death

$17.00
Dealing Creatively with Death: A Manual of Death Education and Simple Burial by Ernest Morgan. Upper Access, 2000, NEW 14th edition. 160 pages. A concise and readable guide on simplicity in funeral arrangements, cremation, body and organ donation 
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Grave Matters (all about Green Burial)

$26.25
Grave Matters: A Journey Through The Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial Scribner, 2007. 191 pages. Grave Matters follows families who found in "green" burial a more natural and meaningful alternative to conventional funerals. 
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Guidebook For Running a Funeral Consumers Alliance

$13.00
100 page guide to forming and running a non-profit funeral consumer group. 
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I Died Laughing

$11.00
I Died Laughing: Funeral Education with a Light Touch by Lisa Carlson. Upper Access, 2001. 96 pages. If death and funerals are difficult subjects in your family, here's one way to break the ice. The jokes and cartoons will keep you chuckling. The 
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

$16.00
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. W.W.Norton, 2003, 304 pages. Roach’s raucously funny (and educational) New York Times bestseller takes you to all the places you thought no corpse had gone before. From the first chapter — 
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The American Way of Death Revisited

$16.25
The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford. Random House/Vintage. 1998. 296 pages. A scathing yet witty critique of the funeral industry. Mitford's gift is in using the industry's own words to make her points. Wickedly funny. 
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The Funeral Directors Guide to Consumer-Friendly Price Lists

$20.00
The Funeral Director's Guide to Consumer-Friendly General Price Lists — Everything funeral directors need to know to make their price lists clear, easy to use, and compliant with FTC consumer protection rules. The 23-page color-coded guide includ 
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The Long Goodbye - Hardback

$21.00
Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan by William H. Colby. This story of the Cruzan family's 7-year-long legal battle to win the right to disconnect their daughter, Nancy, from "life-sustaining" treatment is essential reading. Nancy was left i 
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Every adult American should have one in the freezer. What? Before I Go, You Should Know — an end-of-life planning kit. Comes in a plastic button-tie pouch with




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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.