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The Final Arrangements News Journal
Saturday September 6, 2008
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Buy a Casket at a Discount; Pay 50% to 70% less at a Retail Casket Store
The Casket You Buy, Alone can Lower Funeral Costs by Thousands. The buying of a Casket, with the advent of the discount casket store has dramatically changed the cost of final arrangements made for funerals due to the Federal Trade Commissions Funeral Rule implementation in 1984. To buy a casket, it used to cost thousands. Today to buy a similar casket the price can be only hundreds of dollars

Cremation Arrangements Advice That Can Save You Money
Cremation is becoming the predominant final arrangements choice at death in the US. Cremation is chosen each year by an ever increasing number of people. A traditional funeral now costs on average more than $6,000. Cremation whereas, can be one fifth the cost

 Where Did All Those Cemetery Lots Go?
Where did all those cemetery lots go when American consumers decided they didn't want to be buried anymore? Who has them to sell? Who in today's Cremation only world is buying them and where are they going to find them?

 A Funeral Home Service A Family Will Appreciate
Mary wants to give her husband that wonderful funeral she and the family need to give but the money has to be saved somewhere for the burial. The Final Arrangements Network, the Internet's premiere consumers information source for cemetery lots for sale and final arrangements preplanning, has recently begun several services that when used can save a family up to 50% to 60% of the cemetery costs, literally thousand of dollars. Thus, leaving more funds for the Director to work with to create that perfect funeral Mary and her family want and need to have.

“To Everything There is a Time.” The Final Arrangements Network Adds Life Settlement Services for its Financially Savvy Senior Client Base
“To everything there is a time and a season and this is the time and that season”, was how RW Ward, founder and CEO of The Final Arrangements Network described that organization’s most recent association with The Edward Ferrante Agency of New York.

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Why Aren't My Cemetery Plots for Sale Selling?
Many who have tried and tried again to sell valuable Cemetery Plots for Sale have found it seems to be almost impossible to do. No matter what they do, newspaper, Internet Auctions, Internet, there just never seems to be anyone interested, no matter what the price is or how valuable the Cemetery Plots for sale are. 

Cemetery Lots For Sale Service Adds High Tech High Touch to Buy Sell Equation
Having Cemetery Lots, Grave Sites, Burial Spaces or Plots to sell has never been an easy situation for anyone who has tried selling them, even cemeteries. It has proven especially difficult for consumers.

Enter The Final Arrangement Network with an innovative, some say revolutionary, approach to how cemetery plots for sale get sold and you have, possibly, a new paradigm.

Funeral Counseling and Online Memorials; Add Arrows to DCIS Alliance Quiver
The Death Care Internet Services Alliance announced today that two very powerful sources for consumer information and services have joined its rapidly expanding base of Internet Death Care service organizations.

Funeral Counseling, a non-profit charitable organization and Memorial Link.Com, a creator of online memorials and tributes have become a part of a rapidly expanding and growing death care industry and Internet force being created under the moniker The Death Care Internet Services Alliance, DCIS Alliance for short.
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Funeral Arrangements Planning
Publisher MCR Joins DCIS Alliance
It was announced today that the national funeral arrangements planning publisher, MCR, of the widely circulated consumer funeral-planning guide Let The Choice Be Mine has formally joined the growing list of death care industry companies already participating in the DCIS Alliance.

Cemetery Lots and Grave Sites for Sale Buyers Everywhere - Cemeteries Selling Nowhere
What do you do when you have more buyers for cemetery property than you have cemetery property to sell them? Exactly what the folks at The Final Arrangements Network through their Cemetery Registry are doing once again. Try to get the very Cemeteries where buyers want to buy to start making them offers.

Death and Taxes Dancing in America
As someone once said there are only two things in life you can count on “death and taxes”. Americans got the tax dance steps down but no one bothers to learn the death steps until the music has already begun to play and they are thrust out on the dance floor without a clue as to even the beat of the tune being played.

Many Funeral Directors are hesitant to take up their rightful place as important experts on one of the most significant events any human ever experiences, a death in the family. Few others, save doctors and clergy, are called upon at such important life changing events in the course of human existence, as are the funeral director. Yet industry reserve continues to keep these professionals reluctant to assert their rightful authority when it comes to telling Americans they need to see them not just when a death occurs but long before that..

Future Glimpse of Death Care Industry in the Formation of DCIS Alliance Last Week
Where the death care industry is headed in its delivery of information and services was made apparent last week with the announcement of the formation of DCIS, Death Care Internet Services Alliance.

The DCIS Alliance brings together four major high profile Internet information and service providers in a sharing of sources agreement that portends the direction the death care industry may be headed for in the coming decade.

Funeral Home Services Internet Marketing 101
The site can be beautiful; the pictures crisp and bright, the key words optimized perfectly, but it still won’t do what the director hoped.
Funeral homes have been sold a bill of goods when it comes to what the Internet can and will do for them.
Cookie cutter funeral home websites at much too much money to build and stay on the Internet, now show up whenever someone Googles for funeral homes.  

A Really Wonderful Call; When A Funeral Director Goes the Extra Mile
It isn’t every day a funeral director can go beyond the call of duty for a family in need but in the future The Cemetery Registry, TCR, may just do that for some funeral homes in the United States.
The Cemetery Registry, the Internet’s North American multiple listing of cemetery property available from private owners, is now capable of delivering a needed grave site, mausoleum crypt or other cemetery property on an at need basis.

Final Arrangements Preplanning and Saving 50% the Costs
Final Arrangements Preplanning Can Save Nearly 50% the Costs of a Funeral, Cemetery or Cremation

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