Home Funeral Resources

Educational, inspirational and practical tools for creating healing and honoring the passage of our loved ones. Click here to view a free summary document we have compiled on home funeral care.


In the News

Natural/Green Burial in Maryland
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/columbia/ph-ho-cf-doug-col-0219-20150219-story.html

Natural/Green burial in Washington, DC
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/green-burials-are-on-the-rise-as-baby-boomers-plan-for-their-future-and-funerals/2014/10/06/d269cfbc-3eae-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html

Listen to "The Case for Home Funeral Care," an interview with Beth Knox from Crossings, from Maryland Morning (WYPR, Baltimore Maryland's NPR station), on May 19, 2010.

"Nonprofit offers resources for eco-friendly funerals," from the October 2009 Takoma Voice.

"The Surprising Satisfaction of a Home Funeral," an article from the March 2009 Smithsonian Magazine that features Crossings.

Greening Your Final Arrangements, a recent article from Green America Magazine.

Watch "Home Funerals, Tending to Their own," a video from UPI News that features Beth Knox of Crossings, from October 29, 2008.

Here's a link to a recent story from "Seven Days", a Vermont Newsweekly
, in connection with a workshop.

The Washington Post had a front page article (June 5, 2005) on the work of Crossings with stories of several families in the Washington area helped by us. Here is the link.

 

Links

Links to Related Sites & Crossings Care Groups

Directories and Listings

Attending Funerals

Advocacy and Education

Coffins, Shrouds, Urns, and Providers:


Videos and Radio

 


Videos and Radio Interviews on Crossings and Home Funerals

Videos:


 

Radio Interviews:

"The Case for Home Funeral Care," an interview with Beth Knox from Crossings, from Maryland Morning (WYPR, Baltimore Maryland's NPR station), on May 19, 2010.


 

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