Should you elect to buy my book or not,
the following are things you need to know:

Pre-paid Funerals:

Never give any funeral practitioner any money for a pre-paid funeral. Some states have laws designed to protect the consumer when it comes to pre-paid funerals. Other states allow the funeral home to keep up to 30% of any funds paid for a pre-need funeral if you cancel the contract even though the funeral home has provided you with nothing (you don‘t even have the benefit of keeping any interest generated on the funds the funeral home has had control of).

Of the states that do regulate pre-need funeral funds and what the funeral director must do to protect consumers (you) have little time or money to properly oversee pre-need funeral accounts. At this very moment I can document problem after problem nationwide with pre-paid funerals. These are not just “big city” problems. Situations that read almost exactly alike: a death occurs, the family is relying on a pre-paid funeral, the funeral was paid for years ago but the funeral director has long ago spent the funds causing the family undue hardship in the midst of their grief. Or perhaps the funeral home has been sold and the new owners “know nothing” of the pre-paid funeral.

My book will give you hints on how to safeguard your money for your funeral and how to be in complete control of your money should you decide to move. Keep your money, enjoy any interest it may acquire and not worry about someone helping themselves to your dollars.

Willed Body Programs:

Willed body programs are where the deceased (or family members) make the body of a loved one available for medical research when the death occurs. Willed body programs are necessary for medical schools to train the medical personnel for tomorrow. In my book I mention body donation. At the time I wrote the text there had been no problems that I had been aware of concerning such programs. However recently some willed body programs (public and private) have come under attack for the way in which the bodies are handled and disposed of. One willed body program was found to be disarticulating bodies that were awaiting cremation. This “program” had no authorization to remove body parts from these bodies. The remaining body pieces were often placed in a cardboard container with parts from other bodies and cremated together as medical waste.

Another such program promised to return cremated remains (after the medical research was completed) but failed to keep track of the bodies (properly identify the bodies) and allegedly “lost” one out of every four bodies donated. This “program” was also illegally selling body parts and cremating both whole bodies and body parts as medical waste.

Both of the above mentioned willed body programs allegedly lost bodies, disarticulated bodies with out authorization and returned, often times, the incorrect cremated remains to families.

Check out any willed body program before you sign up. As the tough questions such as:

1) Has your willed body program experienced any legal problems?
2) When was the last time your willed body program was audited?
3) What were the results of that audit?
4) Has any body or cremated remains ever been lost in your system?
5) How does your willed body program track the bodies used?
6) Who can I talk with that can verify any of the information you have given me?
7) Should there be any difficulties or problems pertaining to the use of my body or my loved ones body in your willed body program what recourse is there?