Funeral cost in America was not raised. Many funeral directors will help you with a low, or lower cost funeral. Others only raise funeral cost,
March 11th was not declared National Funeral Directors Day! Thanks to Progressive U and the US Congress!
Honest Funeral Directors may see this as a defeat. My position is until the industry is reformed, there should not be National Funeral Directors Day. The funeral directors who take advantage of your family at the time of death, do not need to be honored. Another way to say this is that "Funeral Directors who skim off the top need to be stopped"
Some folks have been asking me, restinpeace to name names of the bad guys.
Restinpeace is not naming names of individuals. Rest in Peace has named the the name of the "Illinois Funeral Directors Association" The officers of this organization is a matter of public record in the State of Illinois. This organization is known as the "IFDA." These "Funeral Directors" in this association mishandled $40,000,000.00 of the folks money in the State of Illinois. Yes $40,000,000.00 (IFDA preneed trust) is gone and the Illinois Funeral Directors Association is not willing to say where the money went. This is after 1 month after the loss was revealed. This Association will not say where 40 Million dollars went!
Restinpeace contacted members of Congress in both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.Leaders were informed about the IFDA Scandal,
and National Funeral Directors Day. It was concluded That National Funeral Directors Day would not be good for America on March11th 2008.
Funeral Directors should be honored once the industry is reformed. There are honest guys out there. This is only the opinion of "rest in peace," your funeral guy, R Brian Burkhardt, Funeral Director, State of Illinois.
more information here:
http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/25856.asp




I think that it is interesting that the news doesn't report this. I mean $40 million missing usually is a wide spread scandal.
Rest in peace
yourfuneralguy
http://www.lowercostfuneral.com/rbrianblog
So Far it is only one newspaper and restinpeace.
Here is the newspaper article:
http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/25856.asp