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Men of Mortuaries Calendar
To purchase your 2008 calendar, learn more about the KAMMCARES Foundation, or to be featured in the 2009 calendar, please visit Men of Mortuaries.

Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers
For information regarding subscriptions, single issues, submission guidelines, deadlines, classifieds or advertising for future issues, please visit The Cemetery Club.

Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints, Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture
with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman is now
available. Please visit
Studio Indiana
for more information.

West Springfield Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark features information on early New England gravestone carvers with more than two hundred photos and illustrations. Please visit the Dog Pond Press website.
FINAL DISPOSITION
Current disposition trends and information for those considering an alternative to traditional burial. Websites featuring green burial the growing trend in eco-friendly disposition the method of placing a non-embalmed body inside a biodegradable receptacle which is then buried in a nature preserve setting.
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  Link   Phoenix Diamonds
On this website you will find a mine of valuable information on a revolutionary method of memorialising your loved-one, pet or relative by converting their ashes ('Cremains) or hair into a REAL diamond.
  Link   InkAfterlife.com
We make custom photo memorials by creating a custom ink formulation using ashes from a loved one or pet and our ink. We then print a beautiful memorial photo using that blended ink.
  Link   Matthews Cremation Division-Cardboard Caskets
Online retailer that has several eco-friendly caskets available for green burial location. Biodegradable caskets are designed from cardboard and they range from basic receptacles similar to those used in crematories to cloth covered designs that have
  Link   Ethician Family Cemetery
Green Burial cemetery located in South Carolina.
  Link   Greensprings National Cemetery Association
Greensprings offers a sustainable and beautiful alternative to conventional cemeteries. It is a place of meadows and woodlands where you may choose native trees and shrubs for planting on your gravesite helping to restore the land to its natural stat
  Link   KINKARA SHROUDS-Look GREAT in the last thing you'll ever wear
Kinkaraco is making the kind of shrouds that real Taphophiles really want to be caught DEAD in! A unique patented design that is easy to "wrap" made of silk embroidery tribal ikat or velvet. Each is lined with a layer of herbs and petals fo
  Link   Cremation Solutions
The worlds largest and most innovative selection of scattering urns and exclusive provider of "Birdhouse Memorial Urns". 
  Link   Suspended Animation Inc.
A cryopreservation research company that will arrange for a cryonic professional to be present at the time of deathand to immediately begin cooling and cardiopulmonary support to start the cryonic process.
  Link   Cryonics Institute
Official site for the Cryonics Institute in Michigan which contains information about cryopreservation services.
  Link   Cardboard Casket (dot) Com
Selection of biodegradable caskets are designed from cardboard for use in ecoburial locations in the United States.
  Link   Space Services Inc.
"A new choice in truly unforgettable memorial services honoring the memory of a departed loved one...Help bring the dream of spaceflight to reality by placing a portion of cremated remains on board a commercial or scientific satellite."
  Link   Eternart Cremation Urns
Eternart offers its exclusive sculptured urns which are created signed and numbered by artist Montserrat Bru. Being unique works of art Eternart urns are numbered and delivered with an authenticity certificate.
  Link   Body Donation
Benefits FAQs and registration information regarding body donation for medical research and education.
  Link   Memorial Ecosystems
Ramsey Creek Preserve in South Carolina reintegrates self remnants into the natural order through green burials. Interments must be natural “dust to dust” burials: no toxic embalming fluids no vaults and only biodegradable caskets.
  Link   Spone Funerary Ware
"Granulated calcified human cremains -- commonly known as mortuary ash -- added to a porcelain "slip" which can then be be cast into a variety of shapes is ceramicist Charles Krafft’s visionary idea for revolutionizing the Americ
  Link   Cryo Net
Cryonic suspension is an experimental procedure whereby patients who no longer can be kept alive with todays medical abilities are preserved at low temperature for treatment in the future.
  Link   Alcor Life Extension Foundation
Official site of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation the world leader in cryonics founded in 1972. Information in the site discusses cryonics research and cryonics technology and the purpose to maintain life not reverse death.