Final Passages' Guidebook, Creating Home Funerals

Our Complete Guidebook, Creating Home Funerals, consists of three booklets in binder form convenient for adding or changing documents. These instructional booklets may also be ordered individually. Purchasing of this rarely found information includes the following topics:

  • Legalities, paperwork and transportation of the deceased
  • How to prepare all arrangements for a home or family-directed funeral
  • How to prepare a loved one to lie-in-honor
  • How to move toward personalized and meaningful closure
  • How to save thousands of dollars, stay in charge and have more choices

Booklet A
Preplanning Instructions for a Home or Family-Directed Funeral:
A preplanning workbook that instructs others as to your preferences, wishes and desires:

  • Home or family-directed funeral instructions and forms
  • Special instructions regarding home ceremonies
  • Estate planning: important people, papers & household inventory
  • A guide to writing an ethical will
Booklet B
Practical Instructions for a home funeral:
Detailed instructions and examples to make this very personal process an empowering and fulfilling experience:
  • Check-off list of home funeral arrangement details
  • Preparation of deceased for lying in honor, visitation and ceremony
  • Preservation with ice and lifting and carrying a body
Booklet C
Legal rights, resources and instructions for filing end-of-life documentation in California
Much of this information may be applicable in other states.
Avoid commonly made errors with these detailed instructions:
  • Relevant statutes and codes for home funerals
  • Sample worksheet copies of the Certificate of Death and Permit for Disposition
  • Step-by-step guide for filling out and filing Certificate of Death and Permit for Disposition
We Need Your Support

Final Passages is on the cutting-edge pioneering a new paradigm for an emerging home and family-directed funeral trend. Foundations offering funding for death and dying projects do not as yet include categories for after-death care, home or family-directed funeral guidance or deathing midwifery. Final Passages needs donations and privately-funded grants from individuals, entrepreneurs and angels who want to awaken and change our culture's views empowering families into a conscious and compassionate rite of passage.

Contributions in any amount are warmly received. Contributions are directed to reproducing and developing educational materials, publication of our book about home and family-directed funerals and other community and national outreach programs.

Order information

Final Passages
P. O. Box 1721
Sebastopol, CA 95473

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