Sorry I created Some Your Funeral Guy blog Confusion

The purpose of this blog is to provide some personal information about your funeral guy. I have other blogs and a book.

To clear up confusion here the blogs and their purposes.

http://www.yourfuneralguy.wordpress.com is a funeral industry blog where i focus on changes in the funeral industry as they relate to consumer funeral cost.This is my longest funeral running funeral blog.

http//: www.lowercostfuneral.com is the Website for my Book "Rest in Peace Insiders tips to a Low Cost Less Stress Funeral" There are two blogs there one for the book and one to explain the lower cost funeral and related events.

http://www.yourfuneralguy.com is a blog where i focus on the average cost of a funeral and funeral costs. I make extensive use of pictures there to make points.

http://www.rbrianburkhardt.com is my author blog.

http://www.yourfuneralguy.typepad.com is a blog where i focus on the moral and spiritual basis of the lower cost funeral.

I have other blogs at amazon.com, progressiveu.org and some blogr.com blogs. there are some other websites that are active that are mentioned in the funeral book as well. I am very greatful to the progressiveu community for teaching me how to blog.

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Your Funeral Guy : Alternative Funeral Songs

Here is the list of my alternative Funeral Songs at no cost to you!

1. Hit The Road Jack-Ray Charles
2. Cabaret - Liza Minnelli
3. Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye - Gracie Fields
4. In the Living Years- Mike and the Mechanics
5. They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa - Napoleon
6. Fame! I Want To Live Forever - The cast of Fame
7. We’ve Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals
8. And When I Die- Blood Sweat and Tears (Laura Nyro)
9. Spirit In The Sky - Dr and The Medics
10. Enjoy Yourself, It’s Later Than You Think - The Specials
11. I Can Only Imagine-Mercy Me
12. When I die I want to go out like Elijah-Rich Mullins
13. Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life - Eric Idle / Monty Python
14. Going Home-Brian Wilson
15. You Can't always Get What You Want- Rolling Stones

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Source: my play list and
http://www.digitalspy.com/music/a144638/top-alternative-funeral-song-unveiled.html

Your Funeral Guy Blog: Funeral Jokes

Here are a few of Your Funeral Guy's favorite Funeral Jokes.

At every funeral home I have worked at I told the boss, I will be the last to let you down. As I walked away I would mutter "into the ground."

Cardiologist's Funeral

A cardiologist died and was given an elaborate funeral. A huge heart
covered in flowers stood behind the casket during the service.
Following the eulogy, the heart opened, and the casket rolled inside.
The heart then closed, sealing the doctor in the beautiful heart
forever.

At that point, one of the mourners burst into laughter. When all eyes
stared at him, he said, "I'm sorry, I was just thinking of my own
funeral.........I'm a gynecologist."

The proctologist fainted

Source:

http://perfectlaugh.blogspot.com/2009/01/cardiologists-funeral.html

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Your Funeral Guy Blog: A question.

Awhile back I posed a question about Funeral Service Providers in the Funeral Industry. Another Blogger took that question put it on their site and received responses. The question can go right to funeral cost. Funeral Directors should be allowed to make mistakes. However too many mistakes at a funeral can cost you emotionally and financially.

Your funeral guy asked:

What mistakes have you seen at a funeral? Most people refer to the obvious. Please let me know the obvious and not obvious mistakes you have heard about after a funeral.

Comment #1

A funeral director's mobile phone rang at the grave side and he answered it.

This is inexcusable and actually happened on the TV show "Six Feet Under" This can actually add to the grief a family experiences. The Emotional Cost is high.

Comment #2

. Missing the entrance to the cemetery.

There is really no excuse for this.

Comment #3

Not collecting his money before the funeral and never getting paid.

Sounds like a Funeral director talking here.

Comment #4

Allowing a family member to make decisions about a funeral without consulting the main contact.

I have actually seen funeral directors have a lawsuit happen because of this one. This also has happened to me in my own family. One should actually file a complaint and get some kind of refund if this happens.

Comment #5

What kind of Question is this? What is your Profession? Have you burnt the fries lately?

No Your Funeral Guy is a Funeral Director. He has a life and has not burn't the fries lately.

Blog by Your Funeral Guy, Author. You can check out the post at this promotional site here.

http://www.funeral-parlor-digest.com/?m=20090101

Your Funeral Guy blog; Avas Flowers has good dirt.

Recently Avas Flowers threw some flowery dirt on Your Funeral Guy. The Dirt contained informed information on funeral expenses, flowers, funeral cost and the Funeral Book. They posted a blog on the information that I released to Avas. Be sure to let me know about your Lower Cost Funeral.

"A leading expert on lowering funeral expenses is Your Funeral Guy, his name is R.Brian Burkhardt He has written a book entitled Rest in Peace an Insider’s Look at the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral. The purpose of this book is to simply help you Lower the Cost and the Stress of any Funeral you may be involved with. The purpose of his blog is to do the same.

We recently had the opportunity to ask Your Funeral Guy some questions we thought our readers may be interested in. We strongly recommend you visit his Your Funeral Guy blog and read his book if you are interested in lowering the cost of your funeral expenses.

Could you tell the readers a little about yourself?
My name is R.Brian Burkhardt. I am a funeral director in Illinois and Virginia.

Could you tell us a bit about your book ?
My Book was started in May 2007 and went to the publisher in the fall of 2007. It was published in May of 2008. The book was completed quickly while I was recovering from lung embolisms and a death scare. The work Rest in Peace Insiders tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral walks one through the painful problem of the funeral process‐and informs people of their rights under the law. Mainly though the pages show people how to lower the price of any funeral. ed in May 2008

Many of the large funeral home operators seem to be focusing on selling funeral related services. Is this good or bad for consumers?
Generally large funeral home operators raise funeral expenses. These are not just the corporate guys. Families can be large funeral home operators as well. I have experienced both and they are not the friends of a lower cost funeral.

Do you think families should order flowers directly from funeral homes?
One should not do this if the family is looking to save on funeral cost. Often the funeral corporations come in with flowers at low funeral cost and then raise the cost of funeral flowers. After this sometimes they send free flowers to hospice and the family feels obligated to get the flowers from the corporate funeral home at higher cost.

Do you have a favorite plant or flower that you think is best to send to a funeral home?
A Lily is my favorite flower and it is on the cover of my book.

What are you currently working on and what can we expect in the future from you?
I blog daily on lower cost funerals on the web. It is my mission to help folks lower the cost of their funerals. I am working on a workbook for Rest in Peace. I am working also developing a green funeral book.

Thank you Mr. Burkhardt for your time and effort on behalf of all the regular people out there that just want to save on their funeral expenses. Please let us know when your next book is published so we can talk to you about it."

Don't get your funeral flowers delivered by "Hertz" Use Avas.

Here is the link to Avas

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YourFuneralGuyBlog: Dirt on Your Funeral Guy from Before the Grave.

Here is some basic information on Your Funeral Guy. I started helping folks lower their funeral cost by accident. Then I had a real accident. Let it be known I enjoy helping folks lower the cost of their family funerals, reducing funeral expenses in difficult economic times.

My name is R.Brian Burkhardt and I am known on the internet as YOUR FUNERAL GUY. I was severely injured on a job and cannot work. I still make money and help others lower their funeral cost. I wrote a book. I am here to reach out to others looking for a few good friends. I may look like a traditional guy, but I am really a renegade.

Funeral Directors are not always strange.

Some are honest and enjoy helping families. That's me.

This is some of the essential Dirt on Your Funeral Guy.

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Your Funeral Guy Blog: Future Funeral Events are Here.

Future Events in the Funeral Industry:

Breaking future News in the Funeral Industry.

Breaking News # 1: News in the Funeral Industry- President Obama ordered the burial of the Big Three automakers. Because of their recent bankruptcy he ordered the demolition of the,Ford GM and Chrysler Headquarters. It has been reported that his next move will be to cover the sites with dirt. The Ceo"s of the big three will officiate.

Breaking News # 2: Funeral Industry deregulation.-Because of the popularity of Green Burials and backyard burials, Congress has signed a new law making these alternatives a national reality and priority. Included is a tax deduction for doing funerals this way.

Breaking News # 3: Funeral Industry News- Urn sales are way down. Because of the Depression Urn Companies have been liquidating their products. People are finding these Expensive Urns at popular flee markets for one dollar. They are using superglue to permanently close these urns. Folks are keeping urns at home and conducting the burial at Facebook's local virtual cemeteries.

Breaking News # 4: Funeral Industry update. In-order to compete with Facebook's local virtual cemetery, Google announced the creation of the largest virtual cemetery in history. For less than 50 cents you can bury your loved one on line. It does mean that families must keep the ashes at home.


Breaking News # 5: Batesville Casket Reports Liquidation of no sales Casket Lines.
Due to the cremation rate going to over 75% Batesville has been selling caskets for pennies on the Dollar. "These internet casket sales come with free shipping direct to the consumers who are now storing caskets in garages and government funded storage centers" a company spokes man said.

More to come.

This is inspired by the Huffington post article on lower funeral cost. Article from DEC 2008

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/11/death-and-the-downturn-ho_n_150280.html

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