Death for Beginners: Your No-Nonsense, Money-Saving Guide to Planning for the Inevitable - Paperback

by Karen Jones (Author)

Updated with all-new information for 2019

With efficiency and a touch of humor, this valuable guidebook offers information on the difficult subject of planning for one's own death or organizing funerals for loved ones. Topics ranging from cremation, burial, caskets, services, and organ donation are explored, and each section offers data, definitions, examples, pros and cons, and helpful worksheets for narrowing down the best options. Numerous sidebars that offer engaging and occasionally bizarre facts on the death industry are also included. Emphasizing practicality and frugality, a bevy of money-saving steps are explored, citing that if smart choices are made beforehand then expensive choices made in grief can be avoided. Ideal for the time-constrained, this comprehensive resource presents fast facts in an easy-to-read format, while helpful links for each topic are compiled in an accompanying website. Readers will benefit from the peace of mind that follows the creation of a structured plan to reduce the financial burdens and emotional distress on loved ones left behind.

Author Biography

Karen Jones is a broadcast journalist, a freelance writer, the author of ""Kingdom"""" of Hearts,"" and the coauthor of ""Up the Bestseller Lists."" She wrote and hosted the long-form television series ""The Haunting of Virginia"" and collaborated with the BBC on the award-winning series ""Pocahontas."" She teaches writing workshops and seminars at several universities as well as a weeklong writing camp in Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. She lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia.