Funeral Consumers Alliance

 
  • Increase font size
  • Default font size
  • Decrease font size

FAQs

Everything you need to know about funerals, cremation, burial, embalming, green funerals, and much more!
If you're new to funeral planning, the best articles to start with below are (scroll through; they're in alphabetical order):

  • Four-Step Funeral Planning: Where to Start When You Don't Know How to Start
  • What to Do When You Can't Afford a Funeral
  • Paying Final Respects: Your Rights When Buying a Funeral
  • The Pitfalls of Preneed (why you should almost never prepay for a funeral)
Filter     Display # 
# Article Title
Filing a Complaint
What to Do When You Can't Afford a Funeral
Ten Tips for Saving Funeral $$$
For Consumers
Paying Final Respects - Your Rights When Buying a Funeral
How To Help Grieving People
Four-Step Funeral Planning: Where to Start When You Don't Know How to Start!
Consumer's Guide to Cemetery Purchases
Green Burial
Cremation Explained, Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Body and Organ Donation, A Gift to Science
How to Read a Funeral Home Price List
Monumental Manipulation
How to Inspect a Crematory for above-board operation
Light, Like the Sun
Dead Bodies and Disease: The “Danger” That Doesn’t Exist
A Word About Burial Liners (written by a grave digger)
Four-Step Funeral Planning
Scatter-Brained - all about cremation and what's left
Don't Get Buried in Debt
Proceso de Embalsamar un Cadaver
Common Funeral Myths
"Simple and Cheap" My Father Said
Planning a Memorial Service
Embalming: What You Should Know
Death Away from Home
What is the Difference Between "Viewing" and "Visitation"?
What's Your Funeral I.Q.?
Did You Forget the Most Important Part of Funeral Planning?
Earth Burial, Tradition in Simplicity
Caskets: Everything the Mortician Won't Tell You and Some Better Places to Shop
The Pitfalls of Preneed
Lay Me to Rest in A Plain Pine Box, One Mother's Letter to Her Children
Veterans' Funeral and Burial Benefits
Starting a Funeral Committee in Your Congregation
 

News and Upcoming Events!

 
  • Twitter Chat June 25, 12 pm Eastern—Join FCA's Josh Slocum (@funeralconsumer) and Efuneral (@efuneral) for a live chat on funeral options. Tweet to @efuneral and #efuneralchat