The Affairs Organizer Blog

According to this Wall Street Journal article from Dana Mattioli:
“…Sales of caskets have been declining for years as more people choose cremation. But the economic slump is compounding the industry’s woes as those who do pick caskets buy cheaper, more spartan accommodations for the hereafter.
In response, casket makers are diversifying, building less expensive models and [...]

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Jeffrey Zaslow’s article “Love, Honor, Cherish and Scatter” in the Wall Street Journal is interesting.
Excerpts:
“More Americans these days are scattering loved ones’ ashes widely, with great purpose and often without permission—an act known in the funeral industry as a “wildcat scattering.” It’s a reflection of both the marked rise in cremation and the growing desire [...]

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Remember Terri Schiavo? She was the young woman who collapsed in 1990 for unknown reasons at the age of 26 and spent the next 15 years, until her death, in medical facilities being nourished through a feeding tube. Whether or not she was brain dead throughout this time has been a topic of [...]

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Free advance health care directive forms, (e.g. living will) for each state from the “Caring Connections” program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Web link: http://www.caringinfo.org/stateaddownload
You may also reach them via their HelpLine at 800/658-8898 or email at caringinfo@nhpco.org

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Here are a few of your tax dollars at work: http://www.organdonor.gov/donation/religious_views.htm
This links to a section of the website OrganDonor.gov, which is run by an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  The material on has been Adapted [...]

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