Vermont Advanced Directive forms and registration You may use any of the forms from the organizations listed below or another of your choice. Vermont law does not favor one form over another:
Vermont Department of Disability, Aging & Independent Living
Your Funeral Comsumer Rights in Vermont
Funeral Consumers Alliance publications and resources:
Before I Go You Should Know available for purchase
Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death book available for purchase
Consumers Guide to Cemetery Purchases
Did You Forget? The Most Important Part of Funeral Planning
Earth Burial: A Tradition in Simplicity (also Dept of Health re home burials in Vermont)
Four-Step Funeral Planning: Where to Start When You Don’t Know How to Start
How to Read a Funeral Home Price List
No One Wants to Talk About Death: How to Help
Organ and Body Donation (also UVM Medical School donation program)
Prepaying Your Funeral: Benefits and Dangers (also Vermont prepaid funeral law)
Ten Tips for Saving Funeral Dollars
Viewing and Visitation, the Difference
What Shall We Do With the Ashes?
What You Should Know About Embalming
From the Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Regulations and more about the FTC Funeral Rule
Paying Final Respects: Your Rights When Buying Funeral Goods & Services
Planning a Funeral? Know Your Rights
Shopping for Funeral Services booklet from the FTC
Other articles and publications of interest:
5 Things You Must Know NOW Before Someone Dies by Gail Rubin from www.agoodgoodbye.com
Dealing Creatively with Death: A Manual of Death Education and Simple Burial, by Ernest Morgan (Hinesburg, VT: Upper Access Publishing, 2010)
Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death, by Lisa Carlson (VT, Upper Access Publishing, 2011)
I Died Laughing: Funeral Education with a Light Touch, by Lisa Carlson (VT, Upper Access Publishing, 2010)
Taking Steps: Planning for Critical Health Care Decisions from the Vermont Ethics Network
The Greening of Death from Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, Novemer 23, 2011
Is Funeral Home Chain SCI’s Growth Coming at the Expense of Mourners? from Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, October 24, 2013
Home Funerals Grow As Americans Skip The Mortician For Do-It-Yourself After-Death Care from Huffington Post, January 25, 2013
Natural Ending: As interest in ‘green burial’ grows, funeral industry, lawmakers consider regulation from VT Digger, August 18, 2013
Why I Hope to Die at Age 75, by Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanual from The Atlantic, October 2014
