Bugles Across America – Life Bugle Players
Why Was Bugles Across America Started?Bugles Across America, NFP was founded in 2000 by Tom Day, when Congress passed legislation stating that Veterans have a right to at least two uniformed military people to fold the flag and play military taps. Normally most...
Wreaths Across America – Fort Rosecrans
Each year Wreaths Across America organizes the placing of wreaths on graves at selected national cemeteries throught the country. We often contribute to this causes and this year producted a video describing how the practice originated. The wreaths, show above, are...
Veteran Funeral Allowances Benefits
Veteran Funeral Allowances Our veterans are one of our country’s greatest treasures. The soldier, the marine, the pilot, and the sailor who has protected us - has demonstrated the true meaning of honor. Each American veteran has done what so many of us are not brave...
Funeral Services are Important
Funeral Services are Healing Often we heard families say that their mother, father or other relatives did not want the family to have any funeral services. Really, they are saying that it would be too much trouble or too expensive to have the services. Funeral...
Burial at Sea – Ash Scattering – Experience Healing
Burial at Sea - Let Nature Heal We meet on the deck as strangers. Two hours later, we exchange a warm embrace, forever connected by a shared experience as deep as the ocean--the release of a loved one's remains. As facilitator on many burial at sea - ash scattering...
California Disposition Permit
Why I Need a disposition permit A Permit for Disposition of Human Remains (Disposition Permit / Burial Permit) must be issued for each death at the time of preparation for burial, cremation or transit of the remains. The state basically need to know what is happening...
Palliative Care vs Hospice Care – Differences
If someone in your family is dying, you may be asked to decide between hospice and palliative care for them. So, how do you decide? What is the difference between the two? Someone you know may have had hospice care, so you pretty much know what it is. It gets...
California Right to Die Law
California Right to Die Law California’s Governor, Jerry Brown signed The End of Life Option Act (California Right to Die Law)into effect on October 5, 2015. Recent efforts by many groups including the organization Death With Dignity had finally led to the...
Organ Donation – Save a Life
When organ donors die, it is possible for them to save as many as eight lives if their organs are ready to use. In 2014, more than 28,000 transplants saved patients who needed them; thousands died waiting for transplants that could save them - please consider organ...
Tissue Donation – An Opportunity to Help Others
Tissue donation is a very personal decision. On one hand, you have a person who needs a donation; on the other, the person who is deciding to donate either their tissue or the tissue of a deceased person. Tissue donation can improve the quality of life for some and...
Dying Without a Will – What Happens?
Dying Without A Will - What HappensIf a person dies without a Will, each state in the United States has intestate succession laws that decide which assets go to which relative. Since most people do not wish the state to have control of what happens after they die, it...
Implants & Prosthetics – Recycled
When someone in your family passes, there are so many things to think about – the services, the burial, the legal issues, and it goes on and on. Now that we have implants and artificial parts there are more questions. What are you supposed to do? Can these man-made...
