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New Website Helps Consumers Think Clearly at Time of Grief

by Jim Huinink

Funeral Planning 101 - http://www.funderalplanning101.com/ - is a new website offering consumers uniquely independent funeral planning advice. This year in the United States there will be 2.5 million funerals. The majority of these funerals will be planned by the same people selling funeral products and services - funeral directors. If that sounds unseemly-- as many people charge-- Funeral Planning 101 helps to correct some problems with that situation.

Funeral Planning 101 gives consumers a one stop information resource, with advice on everything from pre-planning one’s own funeral to kinds of cremation urns, to which flowers are appropriate in specific religions. The site uses material from freelance writers, government documents and numerous other sources to give consumers an objective look at funerals.

“As is the case in the real world, the overwhelming majority of funeral planning advice on the internet comes from people within the funeral industry,” says the editor of Funeral Planning 101, Jim Huinink. “We think we are the web’s first independent guide.”

Aside from the fact that the new site covers subjects like non-traditional memorials, it is also not afraid to expose the darker side of “the death industry.” For example, the site’s writers discuss hefty profit margins on caskets. “There are easy ways to save money on a casket. This is one product area where time and again, consumers overspend,” Huinink says.

The site also features a funeral cost calculator and other tools to make funeral decisions simpler.

“Funeral Planning 101’s main goal is to give consumers the advice they need—hopefully before they need it,” says Huinink. “We think we’ve provided answers to all the strange and uncomfortable questions people would not otherwise ask. And we provide those all in a format that is respectful and considerate of the difficult time readers are likely going through. The internet provides the perfect medium for reading and thinking about issues involved with funeral planning.”

Contact
The site can be found at http://www.funeralplanning101.com/. For more information about the site, contact:

Jim Huinink
Editor, Funeral Planning 101
1-519-837-4436

http://www.funeralplanning101.com/