Augusta, Maine - The University of Maine at Augusta Senior College will be hosting its first Forum on the Future event of 2014, “Six Feet Under: Funeral Choices” at 2:00 PM on Sunday January 19, 2014 in Jewett Hall.The forum will be lead by featured speaker, Cushman Anthony, an attorney, former state legislator and President of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Maine. Following Anthony’s talk, there will be a panel discussion with guest speakers, Kitsy Winthrop, Hospice Chaplain and Chuck Lakin, woodworker and home funeral educator.
Drawing on years of experience, these experts will discuss, legal documents, principle options for funerals including cremation, traditional funeral with burial in a cemetery of home plot, arrangements without a funeral director, body donation and green cemeteries, and many related topics. The speakers will deal squarely and sensitively with issues that all families must address at the end of someone’s life journey.
The forum is free and open to the public. A snow date is scheduled for Jan. 26th.
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