Funeral Industry goes "Green"

    DALLAS, TX, July 30, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Cremation-Online.com, a Dallas, Texas-based company created by online funeral company pioneer, John Brooks, is prepared to meet one of the latest trends in the death care industry - providing nationwide access to a "green" alternative to the traditional funeral. Since opening its virtual "doors," Brooks' cremation company, originally targeted toward people who desired a simple way to make funeral arrangements in the comfort of home, has received unexpected, widespread response from a different interest group: People who are searching for so-called "green," or environmentally-friendly, options for death care.

These days, being "green" is no longer a matter limited to the realm of environmental groups on the edges of society. Instead, an awareness of the extent to which man's actions can harm the earth has exploded across all sectors of society, and environmental concerns have become mainstream issues. Hybrid cars are everywhere, people are carrying cloth shopping bags to the grocery, and children are coming home from school every day with new ideas for "green living."

At the same time, a rising number of people are becoming concerned with "green dying." Increasingly, the death-care industry is encountering clients who are choosing cremation because they are concerned about ensuring that their final dispositions don't harm the environment. Cremation is sought out by the environmentally-conscious because it saves space normally used for cemeteries; it saves resources, some of them quite rare, like the mahogany wood often used to make caskets, not to mention the resources expended in manufacturing them; and the newer crematories, including the ones operated by Cremation-Online.com, produce nearly zero emissions, avoiding the further pollution of Earth's air.

There are a variety of environmentally-friendly death-care options out there, but not all of them are available everywhere, or even on a widespread basis. For people who live in areas where many "green" death rites coming into use elsewhere are either impractical or simply impossible, a service like Cremation-Online.com provides the ability to arrange a cremation ceremony online, in the relative comfort and privacy of their homes, to select the options that they can afford, free from sales pressure, and ultimately, the ability to feel that their final disposition will not be one that impacts negatively on future generations.

Cremation-online.com is staffed by licensed funeral directors, available to assist clients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including holidays. The process is designed to be simple and user-friendly. When a loved one dies, a family member calls Cremation-Online.com toll-free to begin arrangements, then downloads all necessary forms relating to the cremation from the website and completes them at his or her own pace. The notarized forms can then be returned to the company via fax, to authorize the cremation. This almost paper-free process, along with the new, almost-zero emission crematories utilized by Cremation-Online.com, contribute to the environmental friendliness of the process offered by the company.

Following cremation, memorial services can be arranged at Brooks' Dallas funeral home, or remains can be securely shipped to any location for a memorial service or other desired disposition. The client can also select several product options on the web, including new, biodegradable decorative urns and even live streaming video of memorial services for those who are unable to attend in person.

For additional information, contact John Brooks at 1-800-300-1655 or visit www.cremation-online.com. Brooks, the owner of the company, has been a licensed funeral director in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for more than 35 years. For several years, he has been developing ways to offer innovative funeral-related products over the internet, and the environmentally-friendly arrangements offered by Cremation-Online.com are the most recent development in those ongoing efforts.

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