Listings

  • 916-601-9134
  • heidibouch@comcast.net
  • Fran Vandre, 920-723-2122
  • Sue Rheingans, 262-365-8632
  • personalfarewells@charter.net
  • 508-274-9728
  • kellykoo@comcast.net
  • 978-448-9458
  • Peg Lorenz, info@peacefulpassageathome.com
  • 503-750-5179
  • Manena Nichol Seamons, heartmemorials@gmail.com
  • Kelsey Ramage, 831-425-8052; Kate Frediani-Gorman, 831-234-2835
  • www.journeywithdignity.com
  • kategormancpi@msn.com; ramage@cruzio.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.

www.undertakenwithlove.org

  • 816-229-7648
  • john.obrien@itazuke.org

www.naturalundertaking.org

  • Penny Rhodes, (Allentown/Bethlehem/Reading) pennyrho@aol.com, 610-756-6253
  • Eleanor Dillard, (Huntington Valley) elnrjean@aol.com, 215-850-2237
  • Anne Jackson, (N. Chester Co./S. Berks Co.) buggarden@dejazzd.com,610-286-9676
  • Cheryl Clark, (N. Chester Co./S. Montgomery Co.) ckratz52@yahoo.com,484-369-1744
  • Jenny Bingham, (West Chester/Kimberton)Jenny@naturalundertaking.org,610-212-6215
  • Donna Larsen,(West Chester/Kimberton)Donna@naturalundertaking.org,484-880-7129
  • Rev. Greta Browne, (Bethlehem) greta_browne@hotmail.com (summer/spring only)
  • Jonitha Hasse, 518-325-7454
  • 413-528-1306
  • Ann-Elizabeth Barnes, annelizbarnes@gmail.com
  • 715-866-7798
  • lucybasler@gmail.com
  • 585-957-1779
  • ldbarn@rochester.rr.com
  • 612-729-6817
  • ellen@ritesofchange.com

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

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  • (800) 765-0107
  • www.funerals.org
  • Josh Slocum, Executive Director, info@funerals.org
  • 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