WEBsites are multiplying as commercial interests see advantage in promotion and persuasion via internet access.
Trade associations come on as sources of information dedicated to consumer-interest
when in reality they are used to seek to advance business for their industry. Their
information is tailored to profit-making rather than providing consumers with tools.
Often businesses claim to 'be' in the consumer's interest. It is natural for businesses to do business.
It must become 'natural' for the consumer to gain unskewed information and comparison
shop on the basis of it. Here are just a few sites with which to start gaining practical information.
http://www.funeral.org
The Redwood Funeral Society (RFS)
is the sister society of BAFS. RFS serves the North Bay area above San Francisco, including Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Lake, and Mendocino Counties.
http://www.funerals.org
Funeral Consumers Alliance (FCA)
provides addresses of some 150 funeral and memorial societies. FCA works nationally in the public
interest informing what to watch for.
http://www.growthhouse.org
Growthhouse has pioneered coordinating information on death and dying. It provides
access to sources of education and assistance in death matters, and reviews books and sites.
http://www.xroads.com
'Funerals and Ripoffs' provides resource documents on the death goods and
services industry essential to persons wanting guidance and warnings. Fr. Henry Wasiliesky pioneered
the publishing of wholesale casket prices and markups.
http://www.mitford.org
This is the Jessica Mitford Decca memorial site, dedicated to the person whose commitment and writings
have been public service personified. She and her husband, Bob Treuhaft, worked together to document
'The American Way of Death', the second edition of which was published in 1999. Decca died in 1996.
http://www.donatelifecalifornia.org/
This site allows you to sign up online to be an organ and tissue donor in California. Your organ donation could save the lives of eight people, and your tissue donation enhance the lives of another 50 people. 866-797-2366
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