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HOT OFF THE PRESS: Utahans Regain the Right to Care for Their Own Dead
Joyce Mitchell, the president of FCA of Utah, reports that the governor signed HB265 into law Friday, March 20! "I believe that Utah now has a combo of some of the best after-deathcare wording in the United States," Mitchell said. Read the story in our 2009 newsletter or at Mitchell's Google page.

"Grave debate: After-death disagreements spread to court" by Sandra Svoboda, Detroit Metro Times To read the story, click here.
To read Thomas Lynch's lawsuit, click here.
Go to Funeral Ethics Organization (Select Newsletter,then Spring-Summer 2008) and Funeral Consumers Alliance to access documents in dispute.