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Undertaken With Love: A Home Funeral Guide for Congregations and Communities
is designed to be used independently by any group exploring home funerals. This step-by-step guide will teach you how to:
- start a home funeral committee;
- research and identify your legal rights, options and responsibilities;
- handle, bathe and transport the body; and
- sustain an effective home funeral committee.
Created by a volunteer cadre of home-funeral advocates across America, including FCIS's Holly Gilbert, who served as art director, and Wendy Lyons, who served as co-editor. Also available as a Free PDF Download.
Before I Go, You Should Know
is an end-of-life planning kit. It comes in a plastic button-tie pouch with state-specific advanced medical directives. The 16-page write-in booklet is illustrated by the delightfully macabre artist Edward Gorey. Click here for a sneak peak.
If you're wondering how to talk to your family about your funeral plans, this booklet will help. With hundreds of thousands in print, we've seen first-hand how careful planning and candid family talk can make a tough time more manageable and less expensive.
FREE with NEW membership
Five Wishes is
America’s most popular living will. It's written in everyday language to help start important conversations about care in times of serious illness.
Five Wishes lets your family and doctors know:
- Who you want to make health care decisions for you when you can't make them;
- The kind of medical treatment you want or don't want;
- How comfortable you want to be;
- How you want people to treat you; and
- What you want your loved ones to know.

