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  • Telephone: 503-750-5179
  • Email: Manena Nichol Seamons, heartmemorials@gmail.com
  • Telephone: Kelsey Ramage, 831-425-8052; Kate Frediani-Gorman, 831-234-2835
  • Webpage: www.journeywithdignity.com
  • Email: kategormancpi@msn.com; ramage@cruzio.com
  • Telephone: 802-899-4353
  • Email:  Paul Gale, greenfuneralsvermont@gmail.com
  • Telephone: 406-249-8061
  • Email: Joan Hearon, bridgingsacredspacesllc@gmail.com
  • Telephone: 303-443-3418
  • Email: Karen van Vuuren, info@naturaltransitions.org
  • Telephone: Linda Bergh 612-927-0894/Marianne Dietzel 651-633-0432
  • Webpage: www.beholdingthethreshold.org
  • Email: linda@lindabergh.org, m_dietzel@yahoo.com

    "Undertaken with Love"

    "Undertaken with Love"

    Now there is a guide—written entirely by volunteer advocates of the right of families to direct their own final arrangements—that congregations can use to support home funerals as a ministry. Undertaken With Love: A Home Funeral Guide for Congregations and Communities describes how to start and sustain a home funeral committee. It walks congregational committees and other small groups through the processes of researching their legal rights, options and responsibilities in caring for the dead until burial or cremation. It describes how to handle, bathe and transport the body and directs groups to sources of further information and training.

    • Telephone: 816-229-7648
    • Email: john.obrien@itazuke.org
    • Telephone: 360-341-3382
    • Email: Marilyn Strong, lapis@whidbey.com
    • Email: erika.beth.nelson@gmail.com
    • Telephone: 248-342-2301
    • Email: Wendy Lyons, Consultant, lyonslair@comcast.net
    • Telephone: 610-212-6215/484-880-7129
    • Webpage: www.naturalundertaking.org
    • Email: Jennifer Bingham, jenny@naturalundertaking.org
    • Email: Donna Larsen, donna@naturalundertaking.org
    • Telephone: Jonitha Hasse, 518-325-7454
    • Telephone: 413-528-1306
    • Email: Ann-Elizabeth Barnes, annelizbarnes@gmail.com
    • Telephone: 301-523-3033
    • Webpage: www.crossings.net
    • Email: Beth Knox, crossingcare@earthlink.net
    • Telephone: 651-398-8172
    • Webpage: www.naturaldeathcare.com
    • Email: Jean Madsen and Michael Sorrell, portagesafa@yahoo.com
    • Telephone: 207-873-7854
    • Webpage: www.lastthings.net
    • Email: Klara Tammany and Chuck Lakin, crlakin@colby.edu
    • Telephone: 803-419-4106
    • Email: gereburke@aol.com
    • Telephone: 715-566-2462
    • Email: lucybasler@gmail.com
    • Telephone: 585-899-6803
    • Email: ldbarn@rochester.rr.com
    • Telephone: 360-732-0126
    • Webpage: www.thresholdsoflife.org
    • email: Nora Cedarwind Young, nora@thresholdsoflife.org
    • Telephone: 612-729-6817
    • Webpage: ritesofchange.com
    • Email: ellen@ritesofchange.com
    • Ellen Hufschmidt, Director

    Passing Through Our Hands is a guide to home funeral care. The video starts from when the person dies and covers how to wash the body, dress and layout the body, hold a vigil, how to move the body into a coffin. The video also includes printed guidelines in addition to the video training.

    Passing Through Our Hands

    Passing Through Our Hands

    • Telephone: (800) 765-0107
    • Web page: www.funerals.org
    • Email: Josh Slocum, Executive Director, info@funerals.org
    • Telephone: (301) 523-3033
    • Webpage: www.crossings.net
    • Email: Beth Knox, info@crossings.net
    • “Caring for the Dead: Your Final Act of Love, ” by Lisa Carlson
    • “Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial,” by Mark Harris
    • “Dealing Creatively With Death: A Manual of Death Education and Simple Burial,” by Ernest Morgan
    • Free E-book: Checklist for Planning a Home Funeral