Awards
- Commended for IndieFab awards (Reference) 2011
Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Joshua Slocum (Joshua Slocum) ,
Lisa Carlson (Lisa Carlson) ,
Carlson Lisa
Publisher: Square One Publishers
Imprint: Upper Access Inc.,U.S.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 14.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.001kg
ISBN: 9780942679342
ISBN 10: 0942679342
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 15 June 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This book is a boon for those looking to simplify and personalize caring for the dead. The inclusion of a compilation of each state's funeral laws, including statutory citations and guidance for those investigating home funerals and burials and body donation, make this an essential purchase for consumer-protection collections. -- Library Journal July 2011
This book is a boon for those looking to simplify and personalize caring for the dead. The inclusion of a compilation of each state's funeral laws, including statutory citations and guidance for those investigating home funerals and burials and body donation, make this an essential purchase for consumer-protection collections. Library Journal July 2011
Author Information
Lisa Carlson is a full-time consumer activist and some-time hell raiser, working on behalf of Americans to protect their rights in dealing with the funeral industry. For many years, she served as executive director of the non-profit Funeral Consumers Alliance, the national consumer organisation with approximately 120 state and local affiliates. She is now executive director of Funeral Ethics Organisation. Joshua Slocum is executive director of Funeral Consumers Alliance, a national consumer advocacy group with over 90 chapters nationwide. FCA is the primary watchdog over consumer abuses by the funeral industry.Lisa Carlson, a former executive director of FCA, is now executive director of Funeral Ethics Organization, a nonprofit working with the funeral industry to improve ethical standards and consumer protections.
