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About the Company Cont.
We offer education, for personal and legal rights concerning home or family-directed funerals and final disposition (burial & cremation). It is our intention to re-introduce the concept of "after death care " in the home ,as part of a Native way of life, & as a way to de-institutionalize death. Our work serves the need of community members from all cultural, economic, religious, and spiritual perspectives. We inform people how to take charge of commemorating the death passage of loved ones. Last year we provided funeral consulting for over 50 family-directed funerals, saving them thousands of dollars in funeral expense. We are dedicated to a dignified, compassionate, alternative to current funeral industry practices and the mass-produced caskets they sell. Through our research and experience; families are able to make informed decisions, take charge of all funeral arrangements, secure profound closure and healing, and without incurring alarming debt. We are merely working to re-establish the natural connection between families and after-death care along with promoting eco-friendly products. Call us for references. |
Each state has its own regulations governing this matter. For most states, everything from transportation to final disposition is within your power. Contact your state for laws and regulations. In most states, following a death, a family member has a right to:
- Act in lieu of a funeral director and take full charge of the funeral arrangements
- Make all of the decisions and orchestrate funeral arrangements
- Create a personal, unique and intimate ceremony
- Revive old customs and traditions while creating new ones
- An environmentally friendly disposition (cremation or burial)
- Carry out an ecologically conscious (green) death. Allowing the elements to absorb a part in the body's return to earth
- Affordable choices for after death care and disposition
Persons in Idaho may care for their own dead. The legal authority to do so is found in:
Title 39-260 (re death registration)...the person in charge of interment or of removal of the body from the district shall be responsible for obtaining and filing the death certificate.
Title 54-1104: Exemptions from provisions of act (re licensing of morticians)...any duly authorized representative of any church, fraternal order, or other association or organization honoring the dead who performs a funeral or religious service...
There are no other statures that might require you to use a funeral home in Idaho.
The funeral industry ways of handling after death care are beginning to be challenged. We have become a generation of people who are seeking personal, relevant and meaningful conditions in our lives, yet we have no experience with death since the funeral industry has taken this from us. Although individuals may express apprehension about taking charge of a home or family-directed arrangements, which includes personal involvement with a deceased person, unsettled feelings seem to dissolve when we confront the unknown and are given the opportunity to conquer fears and misconceptions.
You do not have to contact a funeral home (unless the laws in your state require it). You can choose to handle all the arrangements yourself or if you choose this can also be done in conjunction with a funeral director.
If you do so, it is critical that you are adequately prepared ahead of this in time. You may want to help with transportation, paperwork, or other aspects of this process that other family members can carry out.
Be aware...should you call a funeral home to respond to an initial request and for consultation s as to funeral arrangements there will be a standard fee up to $2000. This does not include any services or merchandise such as transportation, preparation of the body, viewing or storage of the departed, caskets, etc. Please attempt to negotiate a per service arrangement before the time of death if you are going to use a funeral home.