Home Funeral Resources

Crossings' Resource Guide: A step-by-step how to guide for home funeral care:

Crossings has created an invaluable resource guide comprised of educational, inspirational, and practical tools for honoring the passage of our loved ones from this world to the next. Information includes procedural aspects of dealing with our dead, both legally and physically. This resource guide can be used to plan arrangements for the time of your own crossing.

Alison's Gift

This is the heartfelt story of 7 year old Alison's sudden passing and the founding of Crossings. It answers the "why" of home funeral care and serves as a beacon for all who desire more in an experience that is often bereft of meaning. This story shows that unimaginable loss can be survived, and more, that it can be a tool itself for healing when the soul of a loved one returns to life in Spirit.

Living into Dying:

A journal of Spiritual, Practical Deathcare for Family and Community
by Nancy Jewel Poer

Every aspect of caring for the dead and dying is covered in this comprehensive book, from "Building a casket" to "Connecting with those who have died".

A Family Undertaking

by Elizabeth Westrate
Documentary Film in VHS format

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This provocative documentary explores the complex psychological, cultural, legal, and financial issues surrounding an important and growing trend: the home funeral movement. It profiles several families who have made the decision to forego the typical mortuary funeral and instead care for their loved ones at home. This video challenges viewers to re-examine their own attitudes toward life's only inevitability: death.