There are many decisions to be made when planning how to mark and manage the end of a life. They range from the essential and necessary ( decisions about the body itself) to the discretionary (pretty much everything else). Costs must be taken into consideration, environmental impact questions are coming to the fore and there are a growing number of options beyond traditional burial and cremation scenarios.

There are lots of people doing really interesting things in this space and the links below will lead you to them.

“...I had come to know that the undertaking that my father did had less to do with what was done to the dead and more to do with what the living did about the fact of life that people died,”
— from "The Undertaking" by Thomas Lynch