NEWSLETTERS 2017 - 2022

2022
Issue 1
  • 2022 Annual Meeting
  • 2022 Funeral Home Price Survey
  • Licensed crematories in our service area 
  • Service Corporation International
  • Desmond Tutu’s simple coffin
  • Simple and Cheap, My Father Said
Issue 2
  • About 2022 Cemetery Survey
  • LLI Class Announcement
  • Talking about Eco-Friendly Burials
  • Growing Interest in Natural Burial
  • Purchasing a Cemetery Plot
  • Importance of Cemeteries
  • Mt. Calvary Cemetery in the news
  • Evergreen Cemetery in the news
  • Insert:  2022 FCACTX Cemetery Survey
  • Plots for sale at discounted prices
  • When and why for tombstones
Issue3
  • Gratitude for your support
  • Proposed Funeral Rule Updates
  • Current Funeral Rule Highlights
  • How to Help Update the Funeral Rule
  • Funeral Industry Reactions
  • Cooking Benefits for the Grieving

2021
Issue 1
  • 2021 Funeral Home Price Survey
  • Deceased Do Not Contact Registry
  • Funeral Home updates & dispositions
  • Comparing Funeralocity and Parting
  • Direct cremation pricing & reminders
  • FTC regarding prepaying for funerals
  • 2020 Guide for Caregivers
Issue 2
  • FEMA Funeral Assistance, COVID-19
  • Physical Symptoms of Grief
  • Travis County ME’s Fee Schedule
  • Funeral Provider Regulations
  • How Men Adapt to Being Solo Agers
  • Messages that Keep Us Going
Issue 3
  • Experience applying for FEMA’s COVID Funeral Assistance Program
  • Veterans Pocket Park
  • Oakwood Chapel re-interments
  • Anticipatory grief

2020
Issue 1
  • 2020 Funeral Home Price Survey
  • Funeral home updates
  • Pending death certificates
  • Travis County Medical Examiner FAQs
  • Neptune Society lawsuit
  • Amazon offering cemetery markers
Issue 2
  • The Conversation
  • StoryCorps Connect
  • Legacy letters
  • CPR success overestimated
  • FTC Funeral Rule
  • Do I want a ventilator?
Issue 3
  • What is an end-of-life doula?
  • What is the “Doula Model of Care”?
  • Hospice: an option at end of life
  • Artificial nutrition & hydration at end of life
  • Distribution log for healthcare directives

2019
Issue 1
  • 2019 Funeral Home Price Survey
  • Funeral home updates
  • Who is Weed-Corley-Fish?
  •  What “Do Everything”  really means
Issue 2
  • Lunch with preneed sales reps
  • Values informing living & dying
  • Living Matters, Dying Matters
  • End-of-Life Options class
  • Win-Win Opportunities
Issue 3
  • Brain hardwired to deny death
  • Disposition options chart
  • Taking pet loss more seriously
  • Funeral home marketing strategies
  • Helping your loved one with bad news

2018
Issue 1
  • 2018 Funeral Home Price Survey
  • Price survey: a favorite resource
  • 11 qualities of a good death
  • Social Security
  • Obituary cost comparison
  • Sorting through what’s  left behind
  • Funeral home ownership updates
Issue 2 
  • 2018 Cemetery Survey
  • Death abroad
  • Burial at sea program
  • Trust-funded funeral contracts illegally sold by Austin-Peel
  • Vatican’s stance on cremated remains
  • Air travel with cremated remains
  • Texas State and Arlington cemeteries
  • Veterans headstones & medallions
  • Body disposition directives
  • SCI/Neptune Society lawsuit update
  • Meals on Wheels and more
Issue 3 
  • Prepaid funeral contracts
  • Austin-Peel Consent Order highlights

2017
Issue 1
  • 2017 Funeral Home Price Survey
  • Pick-Up stories
  • Counting our days
Issue 2
  • Talking about what matters
  • Selecting your health care agent
  • Questions your health care agent should ask
  • Austin’s death cafés
  • Values worksheet
  • Locating a lost insurance policy
  • Advance planning toolkits online
Issue 3
  • SCI / Neptune Society settlement
  • Storing advance directives online
  • Excerpts from the Funeral Rule
  • Death away from home
  • Evaluating online grief support groups
  • Community support groups
  • Deathhub Facebook posts thanking whole body donors
  • Making old grave markers readable
  • Grieving the loss of a pet