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 Consumer Information:

Funeral Consumer's Alliance

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

Funeral Consumer's Alliance Bookstore

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

Funeral Shopping--The Basics    American Consumer Institute

Getting Your Affairs In Order:

Honor My Wishes

Five Wishes

Dealing with Death-Washington State Attorney General

Washington State Living Will Registry 

Other Legal Information

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 

Hospice of Hope Funeral Readings

FCA Simple Casket Resources 

Trappist Caskets 

Desert Light House Pine Caskets

Home Funerals:

A Sacred Moment

Final Passages

Crossings

Crossings Care Circle

Natural Transitions

A Family Undertaking on PBS

Green Burial:

Green Burial Council

Natural Burial Company 

Forest of Memories

Ramsey Creek Preserve

Greensprings Natural Cemetery 

Glendale Nature Preserve

En Espanõl:

Funerales: Guía para el Consumidor

Proceso de Embalsamar un Cadaver

Governmental:

Social Security Survivor's Benefits

Order copies of Death Certificates

King County Medical Examiner

Funeral Industry Regulation & Ethics:

Federal Trade Commission 

Filing a Complaint with the Federal Trade Commission  

Washington State Funeral Board

Washington State Cemetery Board 

Filing a Complaint with the Washington State Funeral or Cemetery Board 

Funeral Ethics Organization