Extraordinary caskets to honor veterans and soldiers are made by Affinity Caskets. Available through your funeral director for US Marines, Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard.


     



www.griefconnect.com is a great website with lots of good resources for everyone - those who are grieving, and those who help them, such as clergy, nurses, doctors, social workers, funeral directors and more.

www.thomaslynch.com Even if you don't like to read, take a chance and read a little of this man's writing. By the time you've finished the first few paragraphs, you'll be sucked in. Tom Lynch is the winner of the Heartland Prize for non-fiction, the American Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award for his collection of essays, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade.

His work has appeared in Newsweek, Esquire, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Harper's, The Washington Post, The Paris Review, and others. NPR, RTE, and BBC Radio have all recorded and broadcast his commentaries. 

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Precious Memories is a company that hand creates a bunch of items with a fingerprint of the person who died. These are all carefully made of only the highest quality materials and the company has customer service that is second to none. They work directly through your funeral director who can take the fingerprint and forward it to them. www.pmkeepsakes.com