Download or read book American Funeral Law written by Arthur Leonard Howell Street and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complying with the Funeral Rule written by United States. Federal Trade Commission and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final Rights written by Joshua Slocum and published by Square One Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josh Slocum and Lisa Carlson are the two most prominent advocates of consumer rights in dealing with the death industry. Here they combine efforts to inform consumers of their rights and propose long-needed reforms. Slocum is executive director of Funeral Consumers Alliance, a national nonprofit with over 90 local affiliates nationwide. Carlson is executive director of Funeral Ethics Organization, which works with the industry to try to improve ethical standards. In addition to nationwide issues, the book covers state-by-state information needed by anybody who wishes to take charge of funeral arrangements for a loved one, with or without the help of a funeral director. More information about the book and related issues can be found at www.finalrights.org .
Download or read book Funeral Service Law in the United States written by Larry Cleveland and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This college textbook was written for use in accredited academic institutions in the United States authorized to offer college-level funeral service programs pursuant to the requirements of the American Board of Funeral Service Education (ABFSE). The Regulatory Compliance instructional outline and glossary of the ABFSE is the foundation upon which this book has been written. The material presented in this book is the subject matter from which mandatory national board examination questions are derived. This particular textbook addresses the Regulatory Compliance subtest on the national funeral services Arts examination. It offers a full review of the FTC Funeral Rule as it relates to the requirement to provide consumers with itemized price lists, including a General Price List, Casket Price List, and Outer Burial Container Price List. It also reviews the FTC mandated Itemized Statement of Funeral Goods and Services Selected documentation that must be provided to each consumer at the close of funeral arrangements. The book has a comprehensive glossary cross-referenced to the chapters; an alphabetical index; sources consulted listing; table of contents; and preface.
Download or read book Occupations Code written by Texas and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of American Funeral Directing written by Robert Wesley Habenstein and published by Milwaukee : Bulfin. This book was released on 1962 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For other editions, see Author Catalog.
Download or read book Restoring Families Rights to Choose written by Lee Webster and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book you will learn 1. About pertinent funeral laws and the issues around them. Anyone who has considered the benefits of home funerals has probably also been concerned about the laws governing after-death processes and procedures. Restoring Families' Right to Choose: the call for funeral legislation change in America was written to educate the public and their policymakers at all levels of government about the issues that inform current laws and policies affecting home funeral families. In addition, it lays out a vision in clear language for legislative funeral reform in America that empowers families while addressing the needs of government. 2. How to navigate and overcome noncompliant institutional policies. Knowing that all Americans have the right to care for their own in their homes after death is the first step. But what happens when following the legal process still leads to roadblocks in institutions and businesses that have policies that are not in sync with the law? What to Do When Home Funeral Rights Are Challenged contains a concise list of potential obstacles and how to anticipate and resolve issues quickly.
Download or read book To Serve the Living written by Suzanne E. Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antebellum slavery to the twenty-first century, African American funeral directors have orchestrated funerals or “homegoing” ceremonies with dignity and pageantry. As entrepreneurs in a largely segregated trade, they were among the few black individuals in any community who were economically independent and not beholden to the local white power structure. Most important, their financial freedom gave them the ability to support the struggle for civil rights and, indeed, to serve the living as well as bury the dead. During the Jim Crow era, black funeral directors relied on racial segregation to secure their foothold in America’s capitalist marketplace. With the dawning of the civil rights age, these entrepreneurs were drawn into the movement to integrate American society, but were also uncertain how racial integration would affect their business success. From the beginning, this tension between personal gain and community service shaped the history of African American funeral directing. For African Americans, death was never simply the end of life, and funerals were not just places to mourn. In the “hush harbors” of the slave quarters, African Americans first used funerals to bury their dead and to plan a path to freedom. Similarly, throughout the long—and often violent—struggle for racial equality in the twentieth century, funeral directors aided the cause by honoring the dead while supporting the living. To Serve the Living offers a fascinating history of how African American funeral directors have been integral to the fight for freedom.
Download or read book Cemetery Law written by Tanya Marsh and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cemetery Law: The Common Law of Burying Grounds in the United States is the first treatise on U.S. cemetery law since 1950. This volume analyzes and explains key sources of U.S. cemetery law, including treatises, reports, and decisions by appellate courts. The "traditional" American burial-embalming, encasement in a casket, and use of a vault or grave liner in a single, perpetual grave-is still the prevailing practice in the United States. However, Baby Boomers concerned about the cost and environmental consequences of this model are sparking the first significant changes in American disposition practices since the Civil War. Practices that minimize consumption and cost-including "green" burial and cremation-have exploded in popularity in the past decade. Nearly half of all deaths in the United States now result in cremation, and that method of disposition is anticipated to overtake burial in the next few years. Americans eager to innovate in the disposition of human remains find that the law-still heavily rooted in seventeenth century English, Protestant assumptions, practices, and beliefs-is ill-equipped to adapt. Cemetery law in the United States has changed little in the past 200 years, but changes in our disposition practices are so widespread and significant that it will soon have no choice. It is unimaginable that we will start with a clean slate. Instead, the law will, as it always does in a common law system, slowly evolve from its current form. This book is therefore designed to help begin that process by illuminating the structure and history of the common law of burying grounds in the United States, including the foundational assumptions, beliefs, and doctrines.
Download or read book Cemetery Law written by Tanya Marsh and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns about the cost and environmental consequences of the "traditional" American model of burial-embalming, casket, vault, single perpetual grave-are prompting the first significant challenges to American disposition practices since the Civil War. Burial itself is even being challenged-the popularity of cremation has exploded in recent decades and it will soon become the dominant practice. Americans eager to innovate in deathcare find that the law-still heavily rooted in 17th century English, Protestant practices and beliefs-is ill-equipped to adapt. Cemetery law in the United States has changed little in the past 200 years, but the challenges to our disposition practices are so widespread and significant that it will soon have no choice. It is unimaginable that we will start with a clean slate. Instead, the law will, as it always does in a common law system, slowly evolve from its current form. Before we can change the law, we must first understand it. This book is designed to help jumpstart that process by outlining the history, structure, and doctrines of the common law of burying grounds in the United States.
Download or read book The American Way of Death Revisited written by Jessica Mitford and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in "the dismal trade." Just before her death in 1996, Mitford thoroughly revised and updated her classic study. The American Way of Death Revisited confronts new trends, including the success of the profession's lobbyists in Washington, inflated cremation costs, the telemarketing of pay-in-advance graves, and the effects of monopolies in a death-care industry now dominated by multinational corporations. With its hard-nosed consumer activism and a satiric vision out of Evelyn Waugh's novel The Loved One, The American Way of Death Revisited will not fail to inform, delight, and disturb. "Brilliant--hilarious. . . . A must-read for anyone planning to throw a funeral in their lifetime."--New York Post "Witty and penetrating--it speaks the truth."--The Washington Post
Download or read book Funeral Protests Selected Federal Laws and Constitutional Issues written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grave Matters written by Mark Harris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the embalming process and the impact the standard funeral has on the environment while also discussing alternative eco-friendly burials.
Download or read book The American Law Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mortuary Law written by Thomas F. H. Stueve and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York State Mortuary Law written by Larry Cleveland and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of laws, codes, rules and regulations is both a reference book and a text book. To be sure it has the ring of a law book, but it doesn't utilize the typical construction of legal statutes with long threads of consecutive law sections. This book is broken down into specific topics, each exploring their associated state compliance issues by examining the broad spectrum of statutes and compiling them for presentation with the topic discussion.In addition to the myriad number of state regulatory requirements, there are also a number of federal codes and rules specific to the funeral service industry. The most important of which are federal statutes known collectively as the "funeral rule." Compliance issues at the federal level are therefore included in each of the topic discussions.This book strives to always provide the "short" answer to everyday questions about mortuary law, by eliminating legal jargon, deleting long administrative passages, using common, everyday language, and utilizing unique formats and outlines to present the information.The intent of this book is to enhance the professionalism of the funeral service by providing members of the service with a competent and reliable reference book and text book. One that is readily at hand; simple in design; easy to read; and, comprehensible to the average user.
Download or read book Regulation of the Funeral Services Industry written by Tanya Marsh and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of human history, indeed for most of American history, the preparation of the dead for disposition was a responsibility primarily discharged by families, friends, and religious organizations. This largely philanthropic activity turned almost completely commercial in the first decades of the 20th century due in large part to increased urbanization and mobility. In the United States today, the disposition of human remains is primarily delegated to the for-profit deathcare industry. This book focuses on the regulation of providers of services related to the preparation of human remains for final disposition and coordination of emorialization and disposition, which is referred to as the "funeral services industry" to distinguish it from the broader deathcare industry. The participants in the funeral services industry are typically referred to as funeral directors, undertakers, morticians, and embalmers who do business in funeral homes. The funeral services industry is highly regulated. The primary means of regulation are state occupational licensing statutes and the Federal Trade Commission's "Funeral Rule." Statutes related to the licensure of crematories and crematory operators, and statutes regulating the sale of pre-need funeral goods and services are closely related to the occupational licensing regime for the funeral services industry and are therefore included in this book.--Publisher.
