Her expertise spans three critical areas where policy innovation could make a difference: tax-advantaged savings structures (similar to education and retirement accounts), consumer protection in death care (ensuring transparency and fairness), and funeral poverty prevention (helping families avoid debt-driven decisions during vulnerable times).Continue reading New Ways to Plan & Pay for Final Expenses
Replacing Funeral Myths with Facts
Through podcasts, interviews, and conferences—including Good Grief, American Weddings, and SevenPonds—Sara has elevated consumer understanding of cost, care, and choice in funeral practices Continue reading Replacing Funeral Myths with Facts
What Happens When No One Claims a Body?
Every year, hundreds of people in communities across America die with no one to claim them. Prickett’s work shines a light on these forgotten lives and deaths, asking hard questions about what our practices around death say about our values and responsibilities to one another.Continue reading What Happens When No One Claims a Body?
My Rebellious Mother
She wanted to be cremated and have her ashes spread somewhere along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina… I phoned the National Park Service and asked if this was OK with them. To my surprise, they said “sure.”Continue reading My Rebellious Mother
“[U]nderstanding the costs… shouldn’t be so taxing”
“I fully expect criminals to commit criminal acts. I don’t necessarily expect funeral providers to blatantly prey on their grieving customers.”Continue reading “[U]nderstanding the costs… shouldn’t be so taxing”
…reaching age 82
When a little boy is told that survival story, do you know what happens? Gratitude gets embedded in your bones. A sense of thanksgiving just to be here, to be alive, to experience life and the world around me, to love and be loved, to know that I am a critical part of the procession of generations. Continue reading …reaching age 82
The Uniquely Vulnerable – Our Focus, Our Mission
The Uniquely Vulnerable – our focus, our mission Get the Latest News & Stories president john lantz met with @tgbeyond John recorded this video on Instagram Many People are Uniquely Vulnerable as They Navigate Funeral Decisions Funeral Consumers Alliance of Georgia, Inc. (FCAGa.org/). View this post on Instagram A post shared by TGBeyond (@tgbeyond)
Funeral Costs News in Georgia
Price Lists For Over 50% of Atlanta’s Funeral Providers Now Available Online Free Get the Latest News & Stories NEWS RELEASE Funeral Consumers Alliance of Georgia, Inc. In a news release issued on September 22, 2022, the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Georgia, Inc. reported the price lists for more than half of the 85 GeorgiaContinue reading Funeral Costs News in Georgia
A Celebration of Life
Meditations on a Death, Grief & Gratitude Get the Latest News & Stories reluctantly Revisiting: The story of that cold dark winter… I didn’t want to write this, to slog through the memories of that cold dark winter, but I pulled out the box where I stored all the papers and miscellany around my husband’sContinue reading A Celebration of Life
MSOGa Member Shares FCAGa Pricing
Memorial Society of Georgia Member Shared FCAGa Pricing Information with the Oakhurst Baptist Church Get the Latest News & Stories Bill Wolff Shared with other members Bill let us share his letter with you. Funeral Home Pricing Funeral Consumers Alliance of Georgia, Inc. (FCAGa.org/Pricing). Those of us who were members of the Memorial Society ofContinue reading MSOGa Member Shares FCAGa Pricing