ProAging Podcast

Understanding Funeral Homes and Crematories & the COVID-19 Funeral Assistance Program

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A live & interactive discussion with the founder of the largest search tool of prices and locations of funeral homes and cremation providers in the nation! Learn about FEMA financial assistance program for COVID-19 related funeral expenses incurred as part of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021 Ed Michael Reggie, CEO of Funeralocity

Questions Asked:

  • Body Composting, can you talk about the new funeral concept for composting the persons body and remains
  • Person dies outside a hospital.  Person is an organ donor (e.g., eyes, kidneys).  Can you discuss the normal process from death to cremation?
  • Donating our body to science after death?
  • Without use of Funeral Home, Family can take care of their own dead and care for the body and bury, the book is Caring for our own dead, home funerals, can you talk about this? Not against law in some states not to use a funeral home or even bury body in the back yard or on family land
  • book gives step by step guide how to get death certificate family can do this if they choose
  • If you decide to have a home funeral do you legally need a funeral hime for anything
  • Cremains frequently come from the funeral home in a plastic bag inside a black plastic box.  Do most families deposit the black plastic box in the ground (no vault), or do they remove the plastic bag from the black box, pierce the plastic, and cover the plastic bag with earth?
  • Will FEMA reimburse families who have already buried their loved ones who have died from covid?
  • up to total of three people three funeral costsmay be reembursed possible thirty thousand dollars possible or more
  • when phone lines opened first days of program more than one million people called and phone lines shut down FEMA call center hired many more people
  • An attorney read and looked at read specific details of the funeral reembursement program and attorney interpreted and  said the FEMA funeral program will reemburse for COVID related deaths even if the life insurance policy paid for the funeral. Can you comment on this are you familiar with this part of the reembursement program?
  • Could you explain that 1984 Funeral Law again, thank you so much
  • Not funeral prepaid for but paid for by the life insurance policy
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