FCA Webinar: What Happens When You Can’t Afford to Die?
Wednesday, May 22, 8 PM EST
Funeral poverty is real. What happens to the unclaimed dead? All people have the right to a personalized and respectful service that memorializes their life on earth. Indigent Burial Programs help ensure, as a community, that everyone who exits this life and enters the next, is surrounded by people that care about them.
Matthew Whisman runs a one-of-a-kind program in Louisville, KY that provides burial and cremation services for individuals who do not have the financial resources or family to provide them. Read more
Join us on May 22, 8 PM EST to learn about this Indigent Burial Program and find ways you may be able to support your local community.
2024 Deathcare Super Conference
Save the date –General Registration will open soon!
September 27-29, 2024
Seattle Public Library, Central Branch
1000 4th Ave, Seattle, WA
In-person pre- and post-conference events will be held on Friday 9/27 and Sunday 9/29.
In-Person and Virtual Conference will be held on Saturday 9/28.
Five deathcare nonprofits are teaming up to host a super conference!
This conference is jointly hosted by the Funeral Consumers Alliance, National Home Funeral Alliance, National End-of-Life Doula Alliance, PAUSE, and the People’s Memorial Association.
The goal of this event is for alternative deathcare and funeral care providers to share resources and have high-level conversations about what we want the future of deathcare to look like, from death doulas to hospice to home funerals to green burials and alternative disposition options to protecting consumer funerary rights.
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Tentative Conference Agenda
Pre-Conference Dinner hosted by PAUSE
September 27, 2024
- 6:30-8:30pm PST (tentative)
- Location: TBD
In-Person and Virtual Conference
September 28, 2024
- 9am-6pm PST
- Location: Seattle Public Library – Central Branch
Tour of Recompose (Natural Organic Reduction facility)
September 29, 2024
- 10am-1pm PST
- Location: Recompose