This is a comprehensive guide for consumers making funeral arrangements with or without a funeral director. It contains detailed descriptions of the "tricks of the funeral trade", to avoid unwanted and overpriced goods and services, and how to file a complaint when subjected to unethical funeral home practices. It provides practical information on all aspects of death care, so that family, friends, and church groups can perform some or all of the functions themselves rather than hiring a funeral director. The laws and regulations of each state are described in easy-to-understand language, with listings of "consumer concerns" in states that have inadequate protections for consumers. The individual chapters for each state also include contact information for medical schools that have a need for body donations, crematories, local non-profit memorial societies, and specific statewide cautions about dealing with funeral and cemetery establishments. The Federal Trade Commission's Funeral Rule is explained, including the protections it provides for consumers and also its shortcomings.

Caring for Your Own Dead: Final Act of Love

Carlson, Lisa

Upper Access, Inc.

This is a comprehensive guide for consumers making funeral arrangements with or without a funeral director. It contains detailed descriptions of the "tricks of the funeral trade", to avoid unwanted and overpriced goods and services, and how to file a complaint when subjected to unethical funeral home practices. It provides practical information on all aspects of death care, so that family, friends, and church groups can perform some or all of the functions themselves rather than hiring a funeral director. The laws and regulations of each state are described in easy-to-understand language, with listings of "consumer concerns" in states that have inadequate protections for consumers. The individual chapters for each state also include contact information for medical schools that have a need for body donations, crematories, local non-profit memorial societies, and specific statewide cautions about dealing with funeral and cemetery establishments. The Federal Trade Commission's Funeral Rule is explained, including the protections it provides for consumers and also its shortcomings.

Caring for the Dead: Your Final Act of Love

Parenting & Relationships

Upper Access Book Pub

This is a very funny book, even though it also includes some serious consumer information. Lisa Carlson has collected cartoons, jokes, funny quotations, humorous last words, and a wide range of other old and new material. As the advice columnist Dear Abby remarked, This book proves that dying can be a laughing matter. At the end of each section, Carlson has a page or two of information and advice for those who may someday have the job of arranging a funeral for a friend or relative, or who may be contemplating the arrangements they prefer when they die.Half the profits from sale of the book will be contributed to the work of the national nonprofit consumer organization, Funeral Consumers Alliance. Several well-known cartoonists and illustrators made their work available in support of this cause: these include P.S. Mueller, Rina Picccolo, and the estate of Edward Gorey.With this short book, you can have a good laugh, learn something in process, and support good cause at the same time.

I Died Laughing: Funeral Education with a Light Touch

Comics & Graphic Novels

Comic Strips

Decades after Jessica Mitford stunned America with vivid accounts of corruption and abuse in the death industry, not much has improved. Families are manipulated into buying expensive goods and services they don't need or want. Prepaid funeral money vanishes into thin air. Body parts are sold on the black market. Eight states force families to pay a funeral director even if they conduct a home funeral with no need for help. But a consumer movement is no awakening, and Americans are asserting their rights over a key part of life, just as they did in the past with the natural childbirth and hospice movements. The two most prominent leaders of that movement are the authors of this book: Joshua Slocum, executive director of Funeral Consumers Alliance, and Lisa Carlson, executive director of Funeral Ethics Organization. Here they join forces to expose wrongdoing, inform consumers of their rights, and propose legal reforms. The book includes state-by-state summaries of laws, regulations, services, and consumer concerns.

Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death

SLOCUM, JOSHUA

Upper Access

Cyber Shadows is a tour de horizon of the digital world's dark places, the threats and innovations in cybercrime, espionage, and surveillance - and new attacks moving beyond identity theft to hacking our behavioral patterns, brains, and DNA to buy and sell as lucrative business. The implications are staggering: from coercion to the end of the sovereign self.

Cyber Shadows: Power, Crime, and Hacking Everyone

Nordstrom, Carolyn

ACTA Publications

Susan, a shy young teacher, is on her way to visit her Aunt Ruby in rural Pennsylvania for the summer. Susan is escaping a bad breakup from her unfaithful fiancé, as well as the demands of her overpowering motherA new world opens up for Susan at Whitman's Nursery, a local family business that appreciates Susan's decorating skills, where she meets hunky younger son Cooper Whitman. Cooper and Susan begin a tentative romance and inexperienced Susan feels a passion for him that she has never felt before in her life. Susan's mother is determined that Susan should marry her cheating fiancé. Will Susan be able to honor her feelings for Cooper or will she allow her mother to dominate her, as she always has?

Room to Grow

Romance

Paranormal

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Abby's life was bland. Her love life sucked and recently her boyfriend Brad had been outright ignoring her. Her only bright spot? Her Uncle Ray's new restaurant where Abby will be the executive chef. Max's life was boring. He worked, spent time with his family and went home. He was in a rut. Until he met Abby. Can Max and Abby ignite a passion they so desperately crave? **Due to language and sexual situations this book is intended for mature readers.**

Ignite My Love (My Love Series)

Gina Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? I wonder if this why Nick won’t marry me. My life is going in circles; I feel like the hamster running on the wheel that never gets anywhere. I work with Nick at his family’s construction company; we’ve been together for three years and nothing. He expects me to become his mother and that’s not happening. Just because I like to work instead of keep house doesn’t make me a bad person does it? Does it? Nick My life rocks. I have a great company, a loving girlfriend and even though I don’t live at home (an apartment over my parents garage counts as moved out, doesn’t it?) my mom still cooks and cleans for me. Oh sure, I love Gina but c’mon; do I really want to be tied down with screaming kids? My mom wants me to settle down, but not with Gina. Gina’s father and uncle scare the crap out of me and my father doesn’t care what I do as long as he gets a banana nut muffin every Monday morning. Just because I like my life the way it is doesn’t make me a bad person does it? Does it? When Gina begins getting unwanted attention from a mysterious stalker will Nick finally step up and claim her for himself? Nick and Gina’s story is the second installment of the My Love series. It is told from a dual POV and has a HEA ending. It can be read as a stand-alone but all of the characters are first introduced in Ignite My Love Due to adult content and situations this book is intended for mature audiences only.

Rebuild My Love

Lisa Carlson once lived a carefree life. She was passionate about helping people and traveling the world on adventures. She was happy with her freedom, but longed for a love that would make things feel "complete." When she met Dameon she thought she had met her match. However, shortly after they married Dameon switched from the man of her dreams to the man of every woman's nightmare. She soon found herself isolated in a religious cult, trapped in an abusive marriage. After Lisa became pregnant with their second child, Dameon began to threaten her with abandonment and death. Reaching within herself for the last ounce of courage she managed to escape into hiding. Could she continue to find strength to face the challenges that sprang up every time she turned around? Bait and Switch is a true story full of suspense, intrigue, and a few twists along the way. Join Lisa on her unique journey as she shares her experiences in a way that will captivate you and make you feel you are right there with her.

Bait and Switch: Life With a Two-Faced Narcissist

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

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