There are many websites providing information on this topic.
TCN has provided a number of links here, along with a list of the topics covered by that particular website or weblink, rather than duplicate the information in its website.
Death and Dying
Choice Magazine: Do you need a funeral director?
- Demystifying death
- Bringing the body home
- The possibilities of DIY funerals
- Why people call funeral directors
- Barriers to DIY funerals
- Doing a funeral your way
Choice Magazine: Funeral insurance: do you need it - Insurance Last updated: 24 May 2017
A warning – funeral insurance can be costly in the long run, so consider your options.
- Do I need funeral insurance?
- Funeral insurance
- Risks of funeral insurance
- A call for reforms to funeral insurance
- Pre-paid funerals
- Funeral bonds
- Life insurance
Choice Magazine: DIY will kit reviews
- Five will kits put to the test
- What we found
- Will kits reviewed
- How we analyse the will kits
- What happens if you don't have a will?
- Checklist: How to draft your will
- DIY will kit reviews
- Traps with drafting your own will
- Checklist: How to draft your will
- When do you need legal advice?
- Traps with drafting your own will
A helpful checklist of the necessary processes when someone close to you passes away.
- What now?
- Death at a hospital or nursing home
- Death at home
- Death certificate or doctor's certificate
- Organ donation
- The funeral - Choosing a funeral director
- Registering the death
- Who to notify
- Government assistance
- Removing names from mailing lists
- What to do with social media accounts
Palliative Care: Palliativecare.org.au
- Natural burial grounds across Australia
- Symbolic works created with ink-filled syringe capture life and offer therapy
- One third of elderly patients receive futile treatment before they die
Natural Death Care Centre - http://www.naturaldeathcarecentre.org
- Natural burial FAQ
- Overview Death and Dying Matters
- Important Documents
- Navigating the Medical and Health Care System
- The Dying Process
- Caring For or Being With the Dying
- Death- Sudden, Expected or Unexpected
- Practical Care of the Body
- The Funeral Arrangements, Ceremony and Disposal
- Bereavement and Loss
- Contacts and Advocates
Celebration of life funeral ideas: https://www.funeralzone.co.uk/blog/celebration-of-life-funeral-ideas
This is a website for the United Kingdom. It takes advertising from Funeral Directors. Topics covered by this website:
- Is a celebration of life funeral non-religious?
- Planning a celebration of life
- Who can help me arrange a celebration of life?
- What do you do at a celebration of life?
- Where can you hold a celebration of life funeral?
- Who can conduct a celebration of life funeral?
- Spreading the word about a celebration of life
- Is there an order of service at a celebration of life funeral?
- Who will speak at the life celebration?
- Celebration of life ideas
- Hand out memorial gifts