One year membership at a special reduced price for new members. Open to any provider of retail death-related services, including cemeteries, funeral homes, cremation providers, memorial designers, insurance sales and florists.

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Open to any individual, firm or corporation supplying any materials or services used by a regular member, or offering or providing professional services such as accounting, architectural, legal and others to regular members. $195 per year; non-voting membership.

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Straight Answers To Real Questions

User-friendly consumer informational brochures about cemeteries and interment. Ideal for lobby displays or as giveaways for presentations, promotional mailings, group meetings and consumer trade fairs. Questions include:

• What are the principle types of cemeteries, and how do they differ?
• What are my choices in ground burial?
• How do I choose the right type of grave?
• What is a mausoleum?
• In a hundred years will this cemetery still be here?
• And more ...

Sold in packages of 100, each brochure has room for you to include your company logo and contact information.

Price per package of 100: ICCFA Members $35; Non-Members $45 (you must be logged in to receive member discount price)

Straight Answers To Real Questions

User-friendly consumer informational brochures about funerals. Ideal for lobby displays or as giveaways for presentations, promotional mailings, group meetings and consumer trade fairs. Questions include:

• What purpose does a funeral serve?
• How much does a funeral cost?
• If I donate my remains to medical science, can there still be a service?
• What are burial vaults and graveliners?
• How can I best shop and compare funeral service providers?
• And more ...

Sold in packages of 100, each brochure has room for you to include your company logo and contact information.

Price per package of 100: ICCFA Members $35; Non-Members $45 (you must be logged in to receive member discount price)

Straight Answers To Real Questions

User-friendly consumer informational brochures about cremation and the cremation process. Ideal for lobby displays or as giveaways for presentations, promotional mailings, group meetings and consumer trade fairs. Questions include:

• What happens during the cremation process?
• What can be done with the cremated remains?
• Can we have a service before or after the cremation?
• Can I watch the cremation?
• And more ...

Sold in packages of 100, each brochure has room for you to include your company logo and contact information.

Price per package of 100: ICCFA Members $25; Non-Members $33 (you must be logged in to receive member discount price)

Straight Answers To Real Questions

User-friendly consumer informational brochures about advance planning. Ideal for lobby displays or as giveaways for presentations, promotional mailings, group meetings and consumer trade fairs. Questions include:

• Why should I prearrange my funeral or burial?
• If I prepay, how do I know the money will be there when I die?
• If I prepay, what happens to the interest my money earns?
• What if the funeral home or cemetery changes ownership?
• Can I change prepaid funeral services later?
• And more ...

Sold in packages of 100, each brochure has room for you to include your company logo and contact information

Price per package of 100: ICCFA Members $15; Non-Members $21 (you must be logged in to receive member discount price)

Saying Goodbye Your Way--Planning or Buying a Funeral or Cremation for Yourself or Someone You Love

This book provides a detailed explanation of "Everything you ever wanted to know" about funeral planning. It is designed to help consumers navigate through the many choices required for making final arrangements. Written in a clear, jargonless style, Saying Goodbye is a much-needed contribution at a time when so many aspects of the funeral service and cemetery environment have changed. 

John Welshons says, "In this wonderful book, John Llewellyn has taken a lifetime of experience and crafted it into a beautiful, comprehensive roadmap designed to guide us through two of life’s most significant events--creating and planning funerals for ourselves and creating and planning funerals for our loved ones.
"This beautiful guidebook will take much of the mystery and fear out of the planning process. It will help us learn and grow through all of life’s inevitable transitions. This book should have a place of honor and importance in the library of every home in America. It should be required reading for every member of the family." The comprehensive list of topics covered includes:

• What is a funeral? Types of Services.
• It’s Personal--Having it Your Way.
• Grief and Mourning: Emotional and Physical Reactions.
• Where should a ceremony be held? How long should it last? Who should speak or participate? Music; Visitation; Memory Table; Videos; Obituaries; Casket at a Ceremony? Open or Closed Casket? Flowers or contributions to charity?
• Cremation with a Ceremony; Cremation memorialization options; Urns and keepsakes; Scattering; Description of the cremation process; The right cremated remains? Shipping cremation remains.
• Why prearrange? How to prearrange; Price or delivery guarantee; Financial tools; How insurance works; Trusts; Cancellations and Changes; Portability; Non-prearrangement options; Estate plans and wills; Durable power of attorney; Organ donations.
• Comparing mortuaries; Comparing cemeteries; Memorial and Cremation Societies; Monument dealers; Retail casket sellers; Do it yourself.
• Who to notify when death occurs; Decisions to be made; Embalming or Refrigeration; What to take to the mortuary; Autopsy; Death certificates; Delays in burials; Out-of-area deaths; Moving remains to another cemetery.
• Death with dignity; Hospice.

Saying Goodbye Your Way...
 by John Llewellyn, CEO of Forest Lawn Memorial Parks and Mortuaries, Southern California
, 208pp, soft cover, ISBN 0-9665801-4-1, 2004. John F. Llewellyn is CEO of Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks and Mortuaries, a third generation cemeterian and an active industry leader for many years. Since John's great uncle Dr. Hubert Eaton took the helm in 1916, Forest Lawn has been recognized as not only one of the country's premier cemeteries, but also as the birthplace of many of the concepts that have driven the modern cemetery industry.

Price: ICCFA Members $12.95; Non-Members $22.95 (you must be logged in to receive member discount price) 

A Cemetery Should Be Forever

"The challenge to managers and directors," this comprehensive, insightful work covers the history, philosophy, management, development and challenges of American cemeteries. For anyone wishing to become educated about cemetery operations and the industry as a whole, this 320-page book is an invaluable and unique resource. Topics covered include the full gamut of cemetery management issues, including:

• History of cemeteries
• Cemetery organizations
• Cremation
• History of mortuaries
• Related operations, such as flower shops, memorial designers, and different types of monuments
• Prearrangement
• Endowment care
• Master plans
• Governing boards
• And much, much more

There truly is no other book of its kind available anywhere. A Cemetery Should Be Forever by John Llewellyn, CEO of Forest Lawn Memorial Parks and Mortuaries, Southern California, 320pp, soft cover, ISBN 0-9665801-2-5, 1998. John F. Llewellyn is CEO of Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks and Mortuaries, a third generation cemeterian and an active industry leader for many years. Since John's great uncle Dr. Hubert Eaton took the helm in 1916, Forest Lawn has been recognized as not only one of the country's premier cemeteries, but also as the birthplace of many of the concepts that have driven the modern cemetery industry.

Price: ICCFA Members $16.95; Non-Members $24.95 (you must be logged in to receive member discount price) 

Bloodborne Pathogens -- CD

Offers an overview of Bloodborne Pathogens and the potential risks to cemetery and funeral service professionals, including important information on:

• Who must be included in your program
• The elements of a Written Exposure Control Plan
• "Housekeeping" precautions to help prevent exposure
• Personal protective equipment
• Vaccinations
• Post-exposure procedures
• Universal Precautions

Module includes an audio-visual presentation, a user’s guide, instructor notes, student handouts, a quiz and completion certificates.

Price: ICCFA Members $80; Non-Members $95 (you must be logged in to receive member discount price)