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As
a service to families, we offer this list of providers of alternative
funeral goods and services that might be less familiar to most funeral
consumers. Placement of a business
on this list does not in any way
constitute an endorsement by Funeral Consumers Alliance of the
Piedmont.
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Everlife Memorials
is a Texas company with a useful consumer
guide. From their website:
| Our mission at
Everlife Memorials is to provide a line of memorial products with the
best possible value and the highest level of customer satisfaction
without the pressures associated when dealing with a salesperson. |
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Shine on Brightly is a provider
of Decorative urns and memorial objects as well as memorial textile
art, paintings, and books. Even pet urns are available.They are located
in Asheville and according to their website their products are created
by local artists.
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The
Green Casket Company is located
in Candler, NC near
Asheville. According to their website:
| Green Casket
Company offers 100%
biodegradable caskets handcrafted from pine harvested exclusively from
the sustainable forests of the local Blue Ridge Mountains. Our
caskets contain no metal nor toxins whatsoever and are offered to
those who choose natural, simple and environmentally friendly options
in death as well as in life. |
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Memorial Ecosystems is located
Westminster, SC and are involved in green cemetery resources. They
operate the Ramsey Creek Preserve in Westminster which according to
their website this "became the Green Burial Council’s first Certified
Conservation Burial Ground in the US".
They are also
involved with Honey Creek Woodlands which "is owned and
operated by the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, who is assisted by
Memorial Ecosystems, Inc."
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