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9 Affordable Burial and Cremation Options
Cremation | End of Life Planning | Featured | Green Burial

9 Affordable Burial and Cremation Options

How To Plan a Funeral: Guide + Prices (2025)
End of Life Planning | Featured

How To Plan a Funeral: Guide + Prices (2025)

What To Do After Someone Dies: A 15-Step Checklist
End of Life Planning

What To Do After Someone Dies: A 15-Step Checklist

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Comprehensive End-of-Life Conversations Guide
End of Life Planning | Featured

Comprehensive End-of-Life Conversations Guide

Is a Pre-Paid Funeral Plan Right For You?
End of Life Planning

Is a Pre-Paid Funeral Plan Right For You?

7 Innovative Burial Alternatives
Memorials | End of Life Planning | Pet Memorials

7 Innovative Burial Alternatives

How to Create a Personalized Memorial Plan in 6 Steps
End of Life Planning

How to Create a Personalized Memorial Plan in 6 Steps

Comprehensive End-of-Life Planning: Your Guide to a Peaceful Legacy
End of Life Planning

Comprehensive End-of-Life Planning: Your Guide to a Peaceful Legacy

What is a Spreading Grove?
End of Life Planning | Cremation | Featured

What is a Spreading Grove?

Better Place Forests Launches Spreading Grove, an Affordable Alternative
Cremation | End of Life Planning

Better Place Forests Launches Spreading Grove, an Affordable Alternative

How to Start Preparing for Death
End of Life Planning

How to Start Preparing for Death

What is a Columbarium?
Memorials | End of Life Planning

What is a Columbarium?

End of Life Planning: How to Talk to Aging Parents
End of Life Planning

End of Life Planning: How to Talk to Aging Parents

Burial Tree Pods: A Greener Way to Remember Loved Ones
Sustainable Alternatives | End of Life Planning | Green Burial

Burial Tree Pods: A Greener Way to Remember Loved Ones

Your Guide to Modern End-of-Life Options
End of Life Planning

Your Guide to Modern End-of-Life Options

How to choose a Better Place Forests Memorial
End of Life Planning

How to choose a Better Place Forests Memorial

Leaving a Message After Death
End of Life Planning | Grief and Loss

Leaving a Message After Death

How to create a digital time capsule
End of Life Planning

How to create a digital time capsule

What is a visitation?
End of Life Planning | Memorials

What is a visitation?

10 Memorial Service Invitation Templates & Examples
Memorials | End of Life Planning

10 Memorial Service Invitation Templates & Examples

What to do with social media accounts after a death
End of Life Planning

What to do with social media accounts after a death

The benefits of end-of-life massage therapy in 2024
End of Life Planning

The benefits of end-of-life massage therapy in 2024

A guide to advance healthcare directives for dementia
End of Life Planning

A guide to advance healthcare directives for dementia

Testator vs executor – what’s the difference?
End of Life Planning

Testator vs executor – what’s the difference?

How to prepare your children for a funeral or memorial service
End of Life Planning

How to prepare your children for a funeral or memorial service

7 Ways to Support Family on Hospice Care
End of Life Planning | Grief and Loss

7 Ways to Support Family on Hospice Care

What is a Vigil for Death?
End of Life Planning | Grief and Loss

What is a Vigil for Death?

How has COVID-19 changed American attitudes about death?
End of Life Planning

How has COVID-19 changed American attitudes about death?

The difference between power of attorney vs. guardianship
End of Life Planning

The difference between power of attorney vs. guardianship

What is a letter of instruction, and why might you need one?
End of Life Planning

What is a letter of instruction, and why might you need one?

How to Talk to Loved Ones About End-of-Life Plans
End of Life Planning

How to Talk to Loved Ones About End-of-Life Plans

What Happens to Your Debt When You Die?
End of Life Planning

What Happens to Your Debt When You Die?

What is an Ethical Will? Definitions and Examples of Legacy Letters
End of Life Planning

What is an Ethical Will? Definitions and Examples of Legacy Letters

Let’s Start Talking About a Better Ending
End of Life Planning

Let’s Start Talking About a Better Ending

What is burial insurance? Everything you need to know
End of Life Planning

What is burial insurance? Everything you need to know

Islamic Burial Practices & Funerals
Religion | End of Life Planning | Memorials

Islamic Burial Practices & Funerals

Top 10 Senior Resources and Programs for the Elderly
End of Life Planning

Top 10 Senior Resources and Programs for the Elderly

Top 5 reasons why people are planning memorials in their 40’s and 50’s
End of Life Planning

Top 5 reasons why people are planning memorials in their 40’s and 50’s

Understanding advance directives and their different uses
End of Life Planning

Understanding advance directives and their different uses

What is a durable power of attorney?
End of Life Planning

What is a durable power of attorney?

What is a living will?
End of Life Planning

What is a living will?

Who should write the obituary?
End of Life Planning

Who should write the obituary?

What is advance care planning? ACP explained & defined
End of Life Planning

What is advance care planning? ACP explained & defined

What is Better Place Forests?
Memorials | End of Life Planning | Sustainable Alternatives

What is Better Place Forests?

Funeral director vs. mortician: What’s the difference?
End of Life Planning

Funeral director vs. mortician: What’s the difference?

16 end-of-life questions to ask yourself and your loved ones
End of Life Planning

16 end-of-life questions to ask yourself and your loved ones

23 dinner table topics for the holiday season
End of Life Planning

23 dinner table topics for the holiday season

7 steps to finding personal fulfillment in life
End of Life Planning

7 steps to finding personal fulfillment in life

7 tips for transitioning to retirement
End of Life Planning

7 tips for transitioning to retirement

Why a goodbye letter is the most important letter you will write
End of Life Planning

Why a goodbye letter is the most important letter you will write

A Guide to Scattering Ashes in Arizona
Cremation | End of Life Planning

A Guide to Scattering Ashes in Arizona

A reminder to love well
End of Life Planning

A reminder to love well

The complete guide to planned giving
End of Life Planning

The complete guide to planned giving

Creating a unique celebration of life: how to plan a living funeral
End of Life Planning

Creating a unique celebration of life: how to plan a living funeral

Do you need a funeral director? The pros and cons
End of Life Planning

Do you need a funeral director? The pros and cons

End-of-life housing: assisted living vs. a nursing home
End of Life Planning

End-of-life housing: assisted living vs. a nursing home

End-of-life Planning Checklist
End of Life Planning

End-of-life Planning Checklist

Everything you need to know about the organ donation process
End of Life Planning

Everything you need to know about the organ donation process

Finding an LGBTQ+ inclusive end-of-life option: One couple’s story
End of Life Planning

Finding an LGBTQ+ inclusive end-of-life option: One couple’s story

The Complete Guide for Caring for Someone with Dementia
End of Life Planning

The Complete Guide for Caring for Someone with Dementia

Funeral home etiquette and FAQs
End of Life Planning

Funeral home etiquette and FAQs

A guide to funeral procession etiquette and procedures
End of Life Planning

A guide to funeral procession etiquette and procedures

Why the holiday season is the time to talk about end-of-life planning
End of Life Planning

Why the holiday season is the time to talk about end-of-life planning

How much should a headstone cost? A price breakdown
End of Life Planning

How much should a headstone cost? A price breakdown

How to Become a Caregiver for a Family Member
End of Life Planning

How to Become a Caregiver for a Family Member

How to Donate Your Body to Science
End of Life Planning

How to Donate Your Body to Science

How to honor a loved one on their death anniversary
End of Life Planning

How to honor a loved one on their death anniversary

Start Planning Your Legacy: How to Organize End of Life Documents
End of Life Planning

Start Planning Your Legacy: How to Organize End of Life Documents

How to Write a Will at Home
End of Life Planning

How to Write a Will at Home

Imagining a good death: A Better Place Forests conversation with Katy Butler
End of Life Planning

Imagining a good death: A Better Place Forests conversation with Katy Butler

Creating living reminders to honor a loved one’s life
End of Life Planning

Creating living reminders to honor a loved one’s life

Overcoming the resistance to change: A Better Place Forests conversation with Sallie Tisdale
End of Life Planning

Overcoming the resistance to change: A Better Place Forests conversation with Sallie Tisdale

Recognizing the women breathing new life into the end of life space
End of Life Planning

Recognizing the women breathing new life into the end of life space

Retirement bucket list: 14 things to do in retirement
End of Life Planning

Retirement bucket list: 14 things to do in retirement

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