Helpful Website Links

Transforming After-death Care

• Green Burial Council: www.greenburialcouncil.org
• National Home Funeral Alliance: www.homefuneralalliance.org
• Funeral Consumers Alliance: www.funerals.org
• People's Memorial Association: www.peoplesmemorial.org

Shrouds

• Kinkaraco Shrouds: www.kinkaraco.com

Build Your Own Casket

• Do-it-yourself Coffins Book: http://www.rockler.com/do-it-yourself-coffins-book
• Dealing Creatively with Death: A Manual of Death (Has simple casket plans) www.amazon.com

Ready to Assemble Caskets

• Kent Casket: www.kentcasket.com (Certifed by Green Burial Council)
• Ark Wood Caskets: www.arkwoodcaskets.com (For natural green burials)

Life Celebrations

• Dove releases: www.wastatebiz.com/
• Horse-drawn hearse: www.countrywagon.com

Cremains Scattering Services

• Creative scattering services (National) : http://www.cremation.org/info/scattering.htm
• Responsible international scattering of ashes: www.internationalscatteringsociety.com

Grief, Bereavement & Loss

• Camp Erin: http://www.moyerfoundation.org/programs/camperin.aspx (Bereavement Camps for children)
• ADEC – (Association for Death Education and Counseling): http://www.adec.org/adec/default.aspx
• Center for Loss & Life Transition: http://www.centerforloss.com/

Puget Sound & Washington State End-of-Life Community Groups

• Death Café: Seattle-Eastside: www.deathcafe.com
• Washington End-of-Life Consensus Coalition
• Washington Hospice & Palliative Care Organization: http://www.wshpco.org/

For Veterans

• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: www.va.gov
• Veterans Benefits Administration: www.benefits.va.gov/benefits/
• Veteran’s Burial Benefits: www.cem.va.gov/cem/burial_benefits/index.asp
• Tahoma National Cemetery (near Kent): www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/tahoma.asp

Help with Social Security

• Social Security Administration: www.ssa.gov
• Social Security Benefits: www.ssa.gov/seattle or www.ssa.gov (click on Benefits tab)