Don’t squander the money your relatives leave behind
The Wall Street Journal

It’s the last parental handout you’ll ever get. Make the most of it.
A new study has found that few baby boomers have inherited a significant sum, and even fewer reckon there’s money coming their way. Still, if you’re among the lucky minority, an inheritance could [...]

(The following is an excerpt from the casket chapter in “Caring for the Dead: Your Final Act of Love,” available through the FCA bookstore.)

There is no amount of embalming or any particular casket that will preserve a body in a life-like condition forever. But perhaps history has to repeat itself several times before the [...]

Funeral Homes that sell “Dignity” Services have added a new twist to the smoke and mirrors of funeral pricing to further their profits and take away consumer choice.
Recently, many funeral homes announced lower casket prices in an attempt to shut out retail casket stores. They took $1,000 off the price of every casket, giving the [...]

The “Sham Discount Package” is designed to negate any savings a consumer might have realized by buying a discount casket. Some funeral homes [...]

Funeral Consumers Alliance Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Funeral Conglomerates and Largest Casketmaker for Antitrust Violations
South Burlington, VT. - Funeral Consumers Alliance, Inc. (FCA), on behalf of its roughly 400,000 members and a nationwide class of consumers, has filed a lawsuit in federal court in California seeking to stop the country’s three largest funeral homes [...]