At Final Passages we are dedicated to creating and being a part of a strong community of those in and interested in the home funeral and natural burial movements. We hope the resources below will help you to find what you are looking for. Please click on a link below to jump to the appropriate section:
- Home Funeral Guides — how to locate a home funeral guide in your area
- Legalities of home and family-directed funerals – how to find out if a home funeral is legal in your state
- Funeral organizations and resource sites – excellent sources of information for home funerals and funerals in general
- Green burial & cremation organizations, councils, websites, and blogs
- Green burial cemeteries in the United States
- Government links
- News articles – web, tv and radio – please visit our In the News section
- Video
- Books
- Vendors — online resources for purchasing caskets, shrouds, urns, and other products
Home Funeral Guides — The Home Funeral Directory website has a comprehensive list of home funeral guide consultants in the United States and Canada
Legalities of home and family-directed funerals
- To research the laws regarding home or family-directed funerals in your state, please visit the website of the Funeral Ethics Organization
- The best printed resource for state by state information is “Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death” by Joshua Slocum and Lisa Carlson. The book can be ordered through the the Final Rights website
Funeral organizations and resource sites
- Crossings: Caring for our Own at Death
- Dying: A book of comfort – a website with great resources
- Funeral Consumers Alliance
- Funeral Ethics Organization
- International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association
- Last Things: Alternatives at the End of Life
- Natural Transitions
- Remember Well – Resources
Green burial & cremation organizations, councils, websites, and blogs
- Center for Natural Burial
- Eternal Reefs
- Grave Matters – blog on green burial
- Green Burial Council
- Greenburials.org
- Memorial Ecosystems
- New England Burials at Sea
Green burial cemeteries in the United States
- GreenSprings Natural Cemetery – 93 acres in New York, opened in 2006
- Forever Fernwood – 32 acres in California, opened in 2004
- Glendale Memorial Nature Preserve – Memorial Ecosystems has 350 acres in Florida, opened in 2002
- Ramsey Creek Preserve – Memorial Ecosystems has 32 acres in South Carolina, opened in 1996
- White Eagle Memorial Preserve – 20 acre cemetery is set within 1300 wild acres
- Foxfield Preserve – 43 acres in Ohio
- Honey Creek Woodlands – Georgia
- Eternal Rest Memories Park – Florida
- Cedar Brook Burial Ground – Maine
- Steelmantown Cemetery – New Jersey
- Prairie Wilderness Cemetery – Colorado (under construction currently)
- California State Cemetery and Funeral Bureau
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Federal Trade Commission – funeral facts for consumers
- A family undertaking – a film that explores the growing home-funeral movement by following several families in their most intimate moments as they reclaim the end of life, forgoing a typical mortuary funeral to care for their loved ones at home. Visit PBS Point of View (POV) for schedules and information. Also available on Netflix.
- Passing Through Our Hands – A documentary style video showing how families can care for their own loved ones when they die at home
- Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death – by Joshua Slocum and Lisa Carlson- a book which lists state-by-state laws and requirements for families
- Undertaken With Love: A Home Funeral Guide for Congregations and Committees — a guide created by volunteer home funeral advocates that teaches how direct their own final arrangements
- A fine farewell — Handmade burial and cremation shrouds
- ARK Wood Caskets – Environmentally-friendly pine box kits
- Ashes to Glass — Custom memorial beads and cremation jewelry
- Bury Me Naturally – Natural burial products such as wood, basket and cardboard caskets
- Cremation Products Inc. – Cremation caskets and other cremation products
- Doug’s Urns – Custom-made burial urns
- Earthwood Caskets — hand-built green caskets and coffins, Austin, Tx (broken link – check again)
- Eternal Reefs — Reef balls made from cement and ashes for sea burial
- Final Footprint – Eco-friendly burial products made from materials such as wood, bamboo, banana leaf, rattan and sea grass
- Funeria –Artist-made cremation urns in many designs
- Green Legacy Caskets –Ash caskets, already assembled or custom-made, located in Goshen, IN
- Griffith Woodworks – Pine caskets, already assembled or custom-made, located in Marblehead, MA
- In the Light Urns – cremation urns, jewelry and keepsakes
- Lorie’s Inspirations – Fused glass keepsake art created from cremation ashes
- Memorial Gallery –Cremation urns, jewelry and keepsakes
- Kent Caskets — pine box kits; fully biodegradable & sourced from sustainable forests
- Kinkaraco – biodegradable green burial shrouds
- Maine Cottage Garden Arts — pine boxes, located in Strong, ME
- The Natural Burial Company – Distributor of natural burial products
- Nature’s Casket – pine boxes created from trees killed by bark beetle infestation
- Passages International – Environmentally-friendly and green funeral products
- Shine on Brightly – artist made cremation urns
- Trappist Caskets – handmade caskets and urns
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