Publications available from FCAI
The following essential documents are available as PDF documents from this site:
- Putting My House in Order: Personal Instruction for Cooperating Mortuary, complies with Idaho Code Title 54 Chapter 11.
- The Idaho Living Will
and Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care (PDF), also
available in Microsoft Word
format; you can save a copy of that and edit it, rather than
printing the form and filling it out longhand.
This is the text given by Idaho Code (amended March, 2005), but with improved formatting, courtesy of your Alliance.
Before you sign your advance directive, you may want to read some things that everyone should know about living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care. Other resources include:
- The State of Idaho Attorney General's page concerning Living Wills and Idaho’s Natural Death Act
- A Better Way Coalition has extensive additional information about Advance Care Planning in Idaho.
The following information brochures (as PDF documents) are available from this site and the national FCA for viewing, downloading and printing, at no charge:
- Four-Step Funeral Planning: Where to Start When You Don't Know How to Start
- Beat the High Cost of Funerals: Benefits of Society Membership
- Common Funeral Myths
- Cremation Explained: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
- Death Away from Home
- Death in One State, Burial in Another
- Did you forget: The Most important Part of Funeral Planning
- Earth Burial: A Tradition in Simplicity
- Eco-Friendly Death and Funeral Choices
- Guide to Funeral Planning: Affordable Options
- Help to Grieving People: What You Can Say, What You Can Do
- Home Funerals in Virginia; a Revived Tradition (from FCA of Virginia Blue Ridge)
- How to File a Funeral or Cemetery Complaint
- How to Plan a Memorial Service
- How to Read a Mortuary’s General Price List (GPL)
- Cómo leer la Lista General de Precios (GPL)
- Lay Me to Rest in a Plain Pine Box: One Mother’s Letter to her Children
- Leave More than Memories
- Light, Like the Sun An Essay on Cremation
- No One Wants to Talk About Death: How to Help
- Organ and Body Donation - A Gift to Science
- Prepaying Your Funeral – Benefits and Dangers
- Recycle Medical Devices
- The Funeral Consumer Movement From One Local Society to a National Voice
- "Simple and Cheap" My Father Said by the Daughter of Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black
- Starting a Funeral Committee in Your Congregation
- Starting a Funeral Consumers Alliance: You Can Do It!
- Ten Tips for Saving Funeral Dollars
- Twelve Reasons Why People Spent "Too Much" for a Funeral
- Veteran’s Funeral & Burial Benefits, Including Spouse and Dependent Children
- Viewing and Visitation: The Difference
- What Shall We Do with the Ashes?
- What Would We, the Family, Like? A reflection of personal choice
- What You Should Know About Embalming
We also have a planning kit, Before I Go, You Should Know, for $10 (check or money order). Send your request to:
Funeral Consumers Alliance of Idaho, Inc.
PO Box 1919
Boise, Idaho 83701-1919