Listed below are resources that may help you
or your family cope with the loss of a loved one:
Click on the titles for more information.
CareNotes
An affiliate of Abbey Caskets, CareNotes provides a large selection of booklets dealing with grieving, bereavement and other topics.
Compassion Books
Compassion Books provide a large selection of books to help cope with serious illness, death, grief and breavement.
Funeral Consumers Alliance
Funeral Consumers Alliance is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting consumer's right to choose a meaningful, dignified, affordable funeral.
Grief Net
Grief Net is an online community helping people cope with the loss of a loved one.
Grief Recovery Online
Grief Recovery Online is an online community offering support through message boards, resource listing and chat rooms hosted by others also grieving.
Grief Share
Grief Share offers online support as well as access to finding a support group in your local area.
Hospice Net
Provides information on the grief process and how it affects different members of the family.
Kidsaid
Kidsaid is a website for children and their parents to learn how to cope with grief and bereavement together.
National Catholic Ministry to the Bereaved
National Catholic Ministry to the Breaved offers pastoral and spiritual support to the bereaved, caregivers, agencies, congregations, and dioceses through education and resources.
The Compassionate Friends
The Compassionate Friends is a support group for anyone who has lost a child of any age.
OTHER HELPFUL RESOURCES
AARP
Association for mature adults 50 and above in the United States. This website includes information on health, long-term care, economic security, independent living and consumer issues.
Cremation Association of
North America
An international organization composed of cemeterians, cremationists, funeral directors, industry suppliers and consultants.
Funerals: A Consumer Guide
Federal Trade Commission consumer rights under the Funeral Rule
Hospice Foundation of America
Website helping to cope with terminal illness, death and the process of grief and bereavement.
Making Everlasting Memories
Website to celebrate life and life events by preserving life stories to share with friends and family around the world.
Monastery of the Holy Cross
Monastery Caskets, an affiliate of Abbey Caskets, offers handcrafted wooden caskets in the Chicago, IL area.
Saint Meinrad Archabbey Gift Shop
Saint Meinrad Archabbey Gift Shop offers grief and memorial products for those who have lost a loved one.