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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:32:28 +0100</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Lower Cost Funeral Book is Doing well &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The details on how to lower your average costs of a funeral are in&lt;br /&gt;this funeral book. There is also lots of information on your lower cost&lt;br /&gt;funeral here:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width=&quot;115&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Rest-Peace-Insiders-Stress-Funeral/dp/1600373984/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1215040877&amp;amp;sr=1-1&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41%2BceSzWe1L._SL160_PIsitb-dp-arrow,TopRight,21,-23_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Insider&apos;s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral&quot; width=&quot;115&quot; height=&quot;115&quot; /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Rest-Peace-Insiders-Stress-Funeral/dp/1600373984/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1207948079&amp;amp;sr=1-1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;srTitle&quot;&gt;Rest in Peace: Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt; by R Brian Burkhardt and Matt Bacak. #1 International Best Selling&lt;br /&gt;Author Jason Oman also gave thumbs up to this book. This book is&lt;br /&gt;published by  Morgan James Publishing.This is your funeral cost book. This is a zingwacker idea of a book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your Funeral Guy&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/em&gt; , R Brian Burkhardt, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080;&quot;&gt;Funeral Director&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt; , Author, Blogger, State of Illinois&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;The Funeral cost industry needs to be reformed. this according to the U.S. publication Newsweek. The article is devoted to funeral cost the Funeral Consumers Alliance and the funeral industry&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On July 3rd 2008, Newsweek did an article creating a &lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;funeral, funeral cost and FCA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;- Funeral Consumer Alliance stir. The picture of the biodegradable casket gives you a look at future funeral cost. Joshua Slocum of the Funeral Consumers Alliance also did a great Job handling comments after the article appeared. Slocum is a true Funeral Futurist. The article is Called “A Serious Undertaking.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Quoting from the Newsweek Article:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“the annual conference of the Funeral Consumers Alliance, a watchdog group for the death-care industry that advocates simple, personalized and environmentally sound alternatives to the typical American burial.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Joshua Slocum is exactly correct when the article quotes him:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“I want people to be shocked,” Slocum says, “that in some states, the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;body belongs to the mortuary by state law. And once a funeral director has got a body in the door, it’s over.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsweek.com/id/144482&quot; title=&quot;http://www.newsweek.com/id/144482&quot;&gt;http://www.newsweek.com/id/144482&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;As stated in the Book Rest in Peace Insiders Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral Once the Funeral Director puts your loved one on the mortuary cot, &lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The funeral cost clock starts running. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Two books can help here with the average cost of a funeral.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot;&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width=&quot;115&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Grave-Matters-Journey-Through-Industry/dp/0743277686/ref=pd_bbs_3?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1215040774&amp;amp;sr=1-3&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51r29E1i16L._SL160_AA115_.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial&quot; width=&quot;115&quot; height=&quot;115&quot; /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width=&quot;8&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Grave-Matters-Journey-Through-Industry/dp/0743277686/ref=pd_bbs_3?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1215040774&amp;amp;sr=1-3&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;srTitle&quot;&gt;Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Mark Harris&lt;/div&gt; &lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot;&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width=&quot;115&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Rest-Peace-Insiders-Stress-Funeral/dp/1600373984/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1215040877&amp;amp;sr=1-1&quot;&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width=&quot;8&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt;    &lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width=&quot;115&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Rest-Peace-Insiders-Stress-Funeral/dp/1600373984/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1215040877&amp;amp;sr=1-1&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41%2BceSzWe1L._SL160_PIsitb-dp-arrow,TopRight,21,-23_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Insider&apos;s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral&quot; width=&quot;115&quot; height=&quot;115&quot; /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width=&quot;8&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Rest-Peace-Insiders-Stress-Funeral/dp/1600373984/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1215040877&amp;amp;sr=1-1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;srTitle&quot;&gt;Rest in Peace: Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by R Brian Burkhardt and Matt Bacak&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your Funeral Guy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, R Brian Burkhardt, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Funeral Director&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Author, Blogger, State of Illinois&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Be sure to let me know how you achieved low funeral cost.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:09:44 +0200</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Rest in Peace Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral has been featured in ExpertClick.com&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,arial,Helvetica; color: #000000; font-size: x-small&quot;&gt;This 21st century consumer guide offers practical, never-revealed-before, low cost solutions to the painful challenge of planning a funeral and the death of a loved one. Here is the link to the ExpertClick.com story.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&amp;amp;ID=20987&quot; title=&quot;http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&amp;amp;ID=20987&quot;&gt;http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&amp;amp;ID=20987&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“Rest in Peace, Insiders Tips to the Low  Cost Less Stress Funeral” will guide you to your low cost funeral.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,arial,Helvetica; color: #000000; font-size: x-small&quot;&gt;In Rest in Peace: Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral, &amp;quot;R. Brian&amp;quot; Burhardt reveals how to save thousands of dollars on a funeral if you know in advance what is involved and what decisions you can make while still having a heartfelt and dignified remembrance. He includes a practical summary of the Federal Trade Commission’s ( FTC) Funeral Rule. The information in this consumer’s bill of rights is presented so you know exactly what your rights are when dealing with funeral homes and directors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;R Brian Burkhardt is a Funeral Director in the State of Illinois and the Commonwealth of Virginia.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yourfuneralguy.wordpress.com&quot; title=&quot;Rest in Peace Insider&apos;s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral (paperback)&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Rest in Peace: Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral (Paperback)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;amp;search-type=ss&amp;amp;index=books&amp;amp;field-author=R%20Brian%20Burkhardt&quot;&gt;R Brian Burkhardt&lt;/a&gt; (Author), &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;amp;search-type=ss&amp;amp;index=books&amp;amp;field-author=Matt%20Bacak&quot;&gt;Matt Bacak&lt;/a&gt; (Foreword)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; class=&quot;productImageGrid&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width=&quot;100%&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt; &lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center&quot;&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width=&quot;240&quot; height=&quot;240&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1600373984/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41%2BceSzWe1L._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Insider&apos;s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class=&quot;tiny&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width=&quot;100%&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width=&quot;100%&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt; Matt Bacak is an internet marketer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;R Brian Burkhardt is a zingwacker idea guy. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width=&quot;100%&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt; There is a whisper campaign about this book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width=&quot;100%&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt; &lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;124&quot; class=&quot;fionaPublishTable&quot; style=&quot;height: 24px&quot;&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class=&quot;tl&quot;&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;fionaPublish&quot;&gt; &lt;div style=&quot;text-indent: 0pt&quot;&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class=&quot;tr&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt; 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