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FCA of Southern California (FCASC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, all volunteer organization that promotes and protects a consumer’s right to choose meaningful, personalized, and affordable end-of-life arrangements through research, education and outreach.  FCASC is not affiliated with the funeral industry.  

Our area of coverage includes Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, and Orange Counties.  Currently, there are over 100 funeral consumer affiliate organizations located in the United States that volunteer their time to serve their communities.  Click here for a listing of national FCA affiliates.  

Our website contains information on the following topics to assist Southern California communities and families in becoming knowledgeable about their end-of-life choices: local funeral prices, funeral options, consumer rights, organ and whole body donation options, environmental impact of funeral practices, and advanced planning.




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CNN Money:  A well-researched article titled "The High Cost of Saying Goodbye" outlines the challenges faced by consumers when making end-of-life arrangements.  
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Daily Breeze:  Business Casual - Manhattan Beach business specializes in 'green' funerals
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OC Register:  Dying to know?  Funeral prices vary wildly in O.C.
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60 Minutes:  Final resting place:  Cemeteries lack oversight
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Ventura County Star:  Survey finds vast range of prices at Ventura County funeral homes
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Acorn:  Survey looks at burial costs in Ventura County
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OC Register:  Price-shopping for funeral services?  Good Luck
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Suggested Videos, Movies, and Books:
Dr. Peter Saul's inspirational TED Talk titled "Dying in the 21st Century" calls on us to make clear our preferences for end of life care - and suggests two questions for starting the conversation.  Over the past 35 years Peter Saul has been intimately involved in the dying process of over 4,000 patients.  He is passionate about improving the ways we die.  
A Will for the Woods is a film about a dying wish for a meaningful legacy of eco-friendly funerals that conserve natural areas.   This documentary investigates the green burial revolution - an effort to advance environmentally sustainable funeral practices, connect people to timeless rituals, and create a powerful tool for conserving natural areas. 
A PBS documentary that explores the growing home funeral movement by following several families in their most intimate moments as they prepare their loved ones at home for a burial or cremation. This film reminds us that far from being a radical innovation, keeping funeral rites in the family or among friends is exactly how death was handled for most of pre-20th century America.  Watch the trailer. 
Final Rights is the definitive book for consumers on the modern funeral industry and how to navigate it. Part investigative report and part practical guide, the book explains in detail how to avoid being victimized. And for those who wish to take charge of the funeral themselves without using a funeral home Final Rights will show you how, with a chapter on each state's requirements written in plain English.
Grave Matters follows families who found in "green" burial a more natural, more economic, and ultimately more meaningful alternative to the tired and toxic send-off on offer at the local funeral parlor.
A revised edition of Jessica Mitford's #1 bestseller The American Way of Death, originally published in 1963.  It is an incredibly entertaining piece of investigative journalism.  
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