Online Resources
Thresholds Newsletter
- Current Newsletter Coming Soon
- Archive Newsletters Coming Soon
Natural Death • Home Funerals • Nature Preserve Cemeteries
- Memorial Ecosystems
- Glendale Nature Preserve
- Final Passages
- Agape Family Directed Funerals
- Crossings
- Natural End
- Natural Burial Company
Consumer Advocacy and Industry Regulation
- The Consumer Advocacy Group, also called Funeral Consumers Alliance, may be reached at (800) 765-0107
- The California Department of Consumer Affairs Cemetery and Funeral Bureau may be reached at (800) 952-5210
Grief & End of Life
- Dr. Alan Wolfelt’s Center for Loss & Life Transition
- Grief Watch, resources for bereaved families & professional caregivers
- Finding Our Way, Living with Dying in America
- Ethical Wills, Preserving Your Legacy of Values
- San Diego County Coalition For Improving End-of-Life Care
- Dying Well.org, Defining Wellness through the End of Life
- The Heart Touch Project
- The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Advancing care at the end of Life…
- Beyond Indigo, Changing the way you feel about grief and loss
- Open Society Institute & Soros Foundations Network, Building Vibrant and Tolerant Democracies
Caskets, Urns & Memorials
- San Diego Caskets
- Final Footprint, Eco-caskets and Green Burials
- Urns From The Forest, Handmade Wooden Urns
- Concentric Rings, Biodegradeable Urns
- Passages, Embracing Change
- Heartsong Memory Beads, by Artist Dolly Libby
- Glass Mementos
- Celebration Forest, “The Gift That Lasts a Lifetime”
- Eternal Reefs
- Life Gem Created Diamonds because love lives on…
Wills, Advance Directives
- Legacy Writer, Legal Documents Online
- Aging with Dignity, Five Wishes Advance Directive
Music
- Wisdom of the World, Graceful Passages
- Griefsong, songs by Paul Alexander
Movies
Books
- “Caring for the Dead” by Lisa Carlson
- “Living Into Dying” by Nancy Jewel Poer
- “A Year to Live” by Stephen Levine
- “The Pagan Book of Living and Dying”, by M. Macha NightMare
- “Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom
- “After the Ecstasy the Laundry” by Jack Kornfield
- “Kitchen Table Wisdom” by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
- “Tear Soup: Recipe For Healing After Loss” by Pat Schwiebert, R.N.
- “Fall of Freddie the Leaf” by Leo Buscaglia
- “Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein
