Suggested Reading

Following is a list of industry links and recommended text that you may find useful while researching the benefits or preplanning and prefunding your funeral or cremation arrangements. Assurant Preneed is not responsible for the content of the sites listed below.

Government Organizations
Social Security
Medicaid
Medicare

Health and Medicine
www.healthfinder.gov

Consumer Information and Education
Funeralplan.com is a free consumer information and education website on funerals and funeral preplanning. It includes articles on financing funerals, funeral preplanning, a free online planning guide as well as grief support, and a free “ask the expert” panel.

Information Resources for Cremation

Funerals. Consumer Resource Guide. {Available Online}, October, 2002.
www.icfa.org/funerals.htm

Anonymous. How to help a grieving friend or relative. {Available Online}, September, 2002.
http://griefnet.org/library/anonymous.html

Funeral Memorial Information Counsel. 2000 Study of American Attitudes towards Ritualization and Memorialization. (April, 2002). The Worthlin Group.
Miscellaneous

YAHOO Geneology Index