Other Links

It is the goal of PMA to assist  the public with making informed decisions regarding end-of-life issues.  On this website, we provide links to a variety of resources which we have found to be educational and informative.  PMA does not endorse specific options, but rather provides this information to enable you to make the best choices for yourself. 

Funeral Consumers Alliance:

Funeral Consumer's Alliance

Directory of Non-profit Affiliates of the Funeral Consumer's Alliance

Funeral Consumer's Alliance Bookstore

Articles for Funeral Consumers:

Funeral Industry R.I.P Off  AARP

Is the Funeral Industry Preying on the Bereaved?    American Consumer Institute

Funeral Shopping--The Basics    American Consumer Institute  

Advance Directives:

Questions & Answers on Living Wills

Questions & Answers on Powers of Attorney

Compassion and Choices Advance Directive 

Five Wishes

POLST - Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment 

Washington State Living Will Registry

Legal Resources:

Washington State Self-Help Legal Resources  

End of Life Issues:

Caring Connections  

Compassion and Choices of Washington 

AARP End of Life

Washington State Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

Funeral Planning Resources:

AARP Preplanning Your Funeral

If I Should Die: Death Poetry 

Shipping or Flying with Cremated Remains

Trappist Caskets 

Home Funerals:

Directory of Home Funeral Providers

A Sacred Moment

A Family Undertaking on PBS

Green Burial:

Green Burial Council

The Meadow Natural Burial Ground, Ferndale, WA

White Eagle Natural Burial Ground, Goldendale, WA

Natural Burial Company 

En Espanõl:

Funerales: Guía para el Consumidor

Proceso de Embalsamar un Cadaver

Cómo leer la Lista General de Precios (GPL)

Governmental:

Social Security Survivor's Benefits

Order copies of Death Certificates

Funeral Industry Regulation & Ethics:

Federal Trade Commission  Info

Filing a Complaint with the Federal Trade Commission  

Washington State Funeral & Cemetery Board  

Filing a Complaint with the Washington State Funeral & Cemetery Board 

Funeral Ethics Organization