Presentations

I offer 1- to 2-hour introductory presentations that can be tailored to your group’s needs and locality. I often speak to groups in libraries, hospitals, hospices, 

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Presentation Topics

About Home Funeral and Natural Burial
Learn about the ancient art of caring for your own dead.  A home funeral can bring healing and comfort to friends and family.  It is legal in all fifty states.  It is natural, inexpensive and quite simple. Presentations include:

• An overview of the history of the funeral industry (or, how we got to where we are)
• Current cultural practices and definitions
• The cost comparison between conventional and home funerals
• Legal information (understanding what is Law and what is Common Practice)
• A photo essay of one family’s home funeral, involving children
• An overview of how to care for your own dead at home
• An explanation of natural burial and where it is available, with photos
• Discussion and Q & A
• Handouts and recommended reading list

Advance Care Planning Presentation
I offer presentations about advance planning for a good death and personal and family consultations.

• What is a good death?
• Review of Living Will, what it is, how to make it more effective, where you can get forms
• Review of Durable Medical Power of Attorney, or health care advocate forms
• The pitfalls of Advance Directives; review of statistics
• The importance of writing a personal letter to your loved ones

“I have made it clear to my family that I do not want a funeral. Celebrate my life, wrap me in a shroud, bury me in a landscape that is sustainable and plant a tree at my site to grow and represent all I was and will ever be.”  —Kris