Category: Newsletter Articles

by Jean T.D. Bandler Funeral directors tend to urge a “full” funeral as a necessary part of the grieving process, essential for survivors to “deal with afterward”, and to come “to closure” on death. The mortician/poet Tom Lynch feels that a service without a body is “like a baptism without a baby”. Such comments are…

by Jean T.D. Bandler Most end of life choices usually focus on financial wills, health care directives, and decisions on burial or cremation. Many of us may forget about the most useful bequest of all: the gift of one’s own body. While organ and tissue donation has garnered a great deal of publicity, there is…

by Jean Bandler Dignified, Meaningful, and Affordable are the key words of our FCA motto and mission. The purpose of our Society is to help all people — rich or poor, young or old, well or ill — make choices consistent with their own philosophy, purse, and principles. To meet goals of dignity and relevance…

by Josephine Black Pesaresi My father, Hugo L. Black died in 1971. At that time he was 85 years old and the second longest sitting Associate Justice in the history of the United States Supreme Court, having sat on the Court for nearly 35 years. An avid tennis player, he served on his two beloved…

For the 2019 survey, FCA of CT wrote to the approximately 300 Connecticut funeral homes and cremation services requesting their current price lists. As in previous surveys, we then turned to volunteers to contact funeral establishments that did not respond. Members can get the full survey, a summary is available here.