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Sunday Morning piece on caskets

May 28, 2010 at 10:53 pm · Filed under Funeral Planning, Green Funerals/Burials ·Tagged

Sunday Morning features modern caskets

My husband watches “Sunday Morning” every…. well, you know, every Sunday morning.  Anyway, a couple of weeks ago they did a feature on the changing consumer desires for caskets.

They address the personalization craze with caskets covered in pictures and  the African type carved into particular shapes.  They also address the green, simple casket movement.  They interview Ruth Faas and Sue Cross  from Mourning Dove Studio in Arlington, MA.

The piece is a few minutes long and interesting. Check it out  – http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6511594n&tag=cbsnewsVideoArea.0

Funeral planning has changed and you can see it in people’s changing attitude toward caskets. One size does not fit all. People want personal and some want simple and green. – AC

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Pre-planning – Where do you fall?

March 31, 2008 at 9:08 pm · Filed under Funeral Planning ·Tagged ,

I just ran across the survey results on “Getting Ready to Go” from the AARP conducted in November 2007.  The survey was a national sample of U.S. adults 35 years of age and older who were polled by telephone.

27% of the respondants had heard about and completed funeral arrangements or burial pre-plans.  Broken down by age segments the numbers were 35-49 years old (12%), 50-59 years old (30%) and 60 years & older (42%).

The numbers for the youngest group don’t surprise me but they do for the oldest group.  Less than 50% of adults 60+ have not completed funeral arrangements.  I know most people are uncomfortable talking about their death and thus planning for it.  But isn’t it incumbent upon someone over 60 to assist their loved ones with funeral plans?  Any one of us could go at any time so shouldn’t we all have plans in place?

Planning funerals is the key point of our web site www.thefuneralsite.com.  We provide articles, resources and tools to assist with funeral planning.  Funerals (or end-of-life celebrations) can be so personalized today – no need to have a “traditional” funeral if you want something special.  For instance, take a look at the casket gallery and see some of the amazing caskets and coffins available today that in no way resemble the caskets of your parents or grandparents.

 So have you planned your celebration yet?  If not, what’s keeping you from doing it?

 DJ

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