A presentation with information and photos about the option of home funerals and green burial.

2. Home Funerals It’s legal … it’s green

3. A hundred years ago home funerals, like home births, were the norm. Slowly the care of our loved ones was turned over to professionals. Now there is a remembering of the power and sacredness of this final act of love . . . as more and more families choose a home funeral.

4. A traditional Swiss wake

5. Workshop in after-death care

6. Workshop

7. Workshop

8. Decorating a Cremation Coffin

9. The following slides honor Harriett

10. Washing and blessing

11. Moving the body

12. Harriett’s “Hope Chest” (coffin)

13. Memorial

14. Casket personalized for Harriett

15. The following slides honor John

16. Vigil

17. Guest book

18. Memorial

19. The following slides honor Catherine

20. Vigil

21. Granddaughter painted the coffin

22. Family carries coffin into crematory

23. Web Resources

24. Web page with general information and resources www.homefuneral.info

25. Web page with video about how to do a home funeral, $15 www.passingthroughourhands.com

26. Web page of home funeral practitioners and resources www.HomeFuneralDirectory.com

32. Wood Casket

33. Biodegradable Coffins

34. Shroud

35. Recycled Paper “Ecopod”

37. Process Through Time

38. Family Directed Burial Our Lady of the Rosary Cemetery, Georgetown, Tx

39. Our Lady of the Rosary Cemetery, Georgetown, Tx

40. Our Lady of the Rosary Cemetery, Georgetown, Tx

41. Our Lady of the Rosary Cemetery, Georgetown, Tx

42. Planting the Grave Our Lady of the Rosary Cemetery, Georgetown, Tx

43. Chapel Hill, NC

44. Metamora, Michigan

45. Open Grave

46. Ceremony at Green Cemetery Preserve

47. Gravestone

48. Buried in Shroud