Final Friends
Empowering families in caring for their own at death through compassionate guidance and education
Additional Helpful Reference Sites
Dennis Shuman of Final Friends met with Gainesville End of Life Doulas on August 12, 2020 via Zoom to provide information about home funerals. In this video of his presentation and the Q&A that follows, Dennis provides practical details on how Floridians can care for their loved ones after death. Watch video
National Home Funeral Alliance: supporting home funeral education. This is the most comprehensive site for information about home funerals.
http://homefuneralalliance.org
Nolo: Home Funeral Laws. Nolo’s mission is to help consumers and
small businesses find answers to their everyday legal and business
questions and has become one of the Internet's leading legal websites.
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/home-funeral-laws
and for Florida Home Funeral Laws
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/florida-home-funeral-laws.html
Funeral Consumers Alliance is a nonprofit organization dedicated to
protecting a consumer's right to choose a meaningful, dignified, and
affordable funeral. They do for funeral purchases what Consumer Reports
does for products.
http://www.funerals.org
Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery: providing a natural burial choice in
the Gainesville, FL area.
prairiecreekconservationcemetery.org
Florida Department of Health: All the forms, applications and brochures
available from the Bureau of Vital Statistics.
http://www.floridahealth.gov/certificates/certificates/publications-page.html