Brochures & Forms (in pdf format)

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PMA Brochure and Application Form:

People's Memorial Association Membership Brochure

PMA Membership Application Download and print the PMA membership application in pdf format, or join online.

Catholic Funerals and People's Memorial Association

PMA Funeral Planning Forms:

Disposition Authorization (legal authorization for cremation or burial)
Putting My House in Order (funeral planning & vital statistics for death certificate)
Dear Family Letter (an inventory of your legal and financial matters)

Educational Brochures provided by the PMA Education Fund:

Common Funeral Myths
Cremation Explained
Death Away From Home
Did You Forget the Most Important Part of Funeral Planning?
Earth Burial: a Tradition in Simplicity
Eco-Friendly Death and Funeral Choices
Embalming: What you Should Know
How to File a Funeral or Cemetery Complaint
How to Help Grieving People
How to Plan a Memorial Service
How to Read a Funeral Home's General Price List
No One Wants to Talk About Death: How to Help
Organ, Body & Tissue Donation
Prepaying Your Funeral: Benefits and Dangers
Recycle Your Medical Devices
Ten Tips for Saving Funeral Dollars
Twelve Reasons People Spend "Too Much" on a Funeral
Veterans' Funeral and Burial Benefits
Viewing and Visitation: The Difference Between
What Shall We Do With the Ashes?

Educational Brochures provided by the Funeral Consumer’s Alliance:

Beat the High Cost of Funerals: Benefits of Membership
Death in One State, Burial in Another
Light, Like the Sun: an Essay on Cremation

Simple & Cheap: Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black
Starting a Funeral Consumers Alliance: You Can Do It!

En Espanõl:

Funerales: Guía para el Consumidor
Cómo leer la Lista General de Precios (GPL)

Advance Directives:

Durable Power of Attorney (Columbia Legal Services)
Living Will/Directive to Physicians (Columbia Legal Services)
Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care and Health Care Directive (WSMA)     Advance Directive (Compassion & Choices of WA) 
POLST Physician's Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (WSMA)

Other Forms:

Medicaid Cremation/Burial Fund form

Other Legal Information Links and forms

Register to be an organ or tissue donor through the non-profit Living Legacy Registry

People's Memorial Newsletters:

2007 Newsletter
2008 Newsletter