What Happens After
Someone just died, and nobody tells you what's law and what's only policy. A funeral director explains, gently.
Friend, most families sit down at the arrangement table tired, still in the clothes they wore at the hospital, and afraid to ask. In my years in this work I watched good people sign for things they thought the law required. This book is what I wish every family had heard first: what happens in the first hours, what embalming really is, what a sealed casket can and cannot do, and how cremation works, step by step. No horror. Just the truth, told with respect.
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The Book
One book. Nine chapters. The questions families are afraid to ask.
What Happens After walks you through the part of a death families rarely see: the first hours, embalming, caskets, vaults, cremation, green burial and the viewing. It tells you which things are federal rules and which are only a funeral home's or a cemetery's own policy. It is not a law book and not legal or medical advice; funeral rules vary by state, so it tells you where to check.
Large-print ebook · 82 pages · Instant download
The complete plain-English guide for families facing a death, and for anyone planning ahead.
Who to call first when a death happens at home, under hospice, or in a hospital. How to get prices over the phone under the FTC Funeral Rule, what a gasket on a casket really does, why a cemetery may ask for a vault, and how a crematory keeps track of your loved one at every step. Plus green burial, home funerals, body donation, and what families wish they had known before the viewing.
What you get for $47$77:
- What Happens After — 82-page ebook, 9 chapters in four parts, plain words$77
- The First 24 Hours — The First 24 Hours: a printable calm checklist for the first day, the questions to ask the funeral home, and a page for numbers and notes. (5 pages)
$19FREE - Seven Mornings — You wake, and for one second you forget. Then you remember, and there is a whole day to get through.
Seven short mornings, from the first day to the morning after the funeral: a verse, plain words, a prayer, one small step. (12 pages)
$19FREE - Seven Evenings — The visitors go home, the phone stops ringing, and everything you held together all day comes loose.
Seven evening prayers for the funeral week, each with a verse and a small space to set down what you carry. (12 pages)
$19FREE - Large print included — bigger type, same bookFREE
- Lifetime updates — every future edition, no extra chargeFREE
- Total value$134$96
- You pay today$47$77
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The Worth Of It
What this book gives you. And what it lifts off your shoulders.
Grief makes everything feel urgent. Families feel they must decide everything tonight. Mostly, they do not, and this book shows you which things can wait.
Without it The weight
- Thinking every call must happen tonightRushed
- Signing for embalming you thought was lawUnsure
- Paying extra for a "protective" casket you don't understandOverspent
- A box for the box, and nobody says whyConfused
- Wondering if the ashes are really hersWorried
- Your family left guessing what you wantedGuessing
what most families carry into the room
With it For good
- You know who to call, and what can waitCalm
- You know embalming is your choice to makeInformed
- You know what "sealed" really means on a casketClear
- You know a vault is usually the cemetery's ruleClear
- Every cremation step, from authorization to the urnAssured
- Your own wishes written down on one pageSettled
Every line has a chapter in the book
Worth far more than $47, because it lets you make calm choices, knowingly, for someone you love.
What's Inside
Nine chapters, one quiet question at a time.
Each chapter opens "From the arrangement table" with a short composite story, then explains what's really going on in plain words, with the federal rule spelled out and a box for what the book can't tell you. Each one closes with a short word of comfort, a verse you may read or pass by, and "This week": one to three small things to do.
The 9 chapters, in four parts
The First Hours, The Casket and the Ground, The Other Choices, and Plain Answers.
The First Hours
- Ch. 1The First 24 Hoursp. 9
- Ch. 2Embalmingp. 19
The Casket and the Ground
- Ch. 3Casketsp. 26
- Ch. 4Vaults and Linersp. 32
The Other Choices
- Ch. 5Cremation, Step by Stepp. 38
- Ch. 6Green Burial and Other Choicesp. 47
- Ch. 7The Viewingp. 52
Plain Answers
- Ch. 8Myths, Verdicts and Sourcesp. 59
- Ch. 9Your Wishes on One Pagep. 67
Appendix
- —Words You May Hear at the Arrangement Tablep. 75
- —Important Papers: Where Are They?p. 78
- —Phone Numbers to Keepp. 79
- —The Public Sources Behind This Bookp. 80
- —A Last Wordp. 82
Plus an appendix: words you may hear at the arrangement table, where the important papers are, phone numbers to keep, and the public sources behind the book.
A Taste Of It
The kind of page you'll find in this book.
These are real passages, copied from the book itself. They are not reviews.
From the book · The first dayGrief does strange things to time. Families tell me the first day felt like a week, and the first week felt like an hour. If you are in that first day now, please hear this: it is all right to sit down. It is all right to cry, or not to cry. It is all right to ask the funeral home to come later.
From the book · Sealed casketsWhat does the gasket do? It is designed to resist outside things, such as water and soil, getting in, for a period of time. That is all. It does not stop the natural changes that happen inside the casket. ... A sealed casket, then, is not a sealed jar. It is closer to a well-made rain cover.
From the book · VaultsMainly, it is the ground. A casket, over time, weakens in the soil. When it gives way, the ground above it sinks. A cemetery full of sunken graves is hard to mow, hard to walk on safely, and hard to keep looking cared for. A rigid container keeps the ground level for a long time. That is a fair and honest reason. It just is not the law.
Passages from the book itself, not reader reviews. General information, not legal or medical advice. Rules vary by state.
What Readers Say
In their own words.
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V. About the Author
Everett Crane.
I spent my working life as a funeral director. For decades I sat across a table from families who had never planned a funeral before, and nearly all of them carried the same quiet worry: we don't know what we're supposed to do, and we don't know what we're allowed to ask.
Now that I'm retired, I can say plainly what we rarely had time to explain. I keep to the industry's own textbooks, the casket makers' warranties, the federal Funeral Rule and the published research, and I tell you where state rules come in, because they differ.
I am a churchgoing man, and a few verses have steadied a great many families at a hard table. You will find them in this book, but the facts never depend on them. No horror, no scare stories. Just the truth, told with respect.
A casket is not a measure of love.
Everett Crane is a pen name, and the presenter in the videos is an AI-generated character. The books are researched and checked against official sources.
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Large-print ebook · 82 pages · Instant download
The complete plain-English guide for families facing a death, and for anyone planning ahead.
Who to call first when a death happens at home, under hospice, or in a hospital. How to get prices over the phone under the FTC Funeral Rule, what a gasket on a casket really does, why a cemetery may ask for a vault, and how a crematory keeps track of your loved one at every step. Plus green burial, home funerals, body donation, and what families wish they had known before the viewing.
What you get for $47$77:
- What Happens After — 82-page ebook, 9 chapters in four parts, plain words$77
- The First 24 Hours — The First 24 Hours: a printable calm checklist for the first day, the questions to ask the funeral home, and a page for numbers and notes. (5 pages)
$19FREE - Seven Mornings — You wake, and for one second you forget. Then you remember, and there is a whole day to get through.
Seven short mornings, from the first day to the morning after the funeral: a verse, plain words, a prayer, one small step. (12 pages)
$19FREE - Seven Evenings — The visitors go home, the phone stops ringing, and everything you held together all day comes loose.
Seven evening prayers for the funeral week, each with a verse and a small space to set down what you carry. (12 pages)
$19FREE - Large print included — bigger type, same bookFREE
- Lifetime updates — every future edition, no extra chargeFREE
- Total value$134$96
- You pay today$47$77
Your free companions are reserved — leaving this page in 15:00
+FREE+FREE+FREEIncluded today — no extra cost
You also get The First 24 Hours, Seven Mornings and Seven Evenings — free $57.
Your order comes with The First 24 Hours to keep by the phone, and the large-print edition of the whole book, so the first day is on one page and the rest is easy on tired eyes.
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Who is this book for?
Families facing a death right now, families caring for someone who is dying, and anyone who wants to plan their own funeral so the people they love never have to guess.
What won't this book do?
It is not a law book and not a price guide. Every state writes its own rules on waiting periods, permits, who may sign for a cremation and when embalming is needed. The book tells you where those rules come in and how to check them with your state's funeral board.
Is Everett Crane a real person?
No. Everett Crane is an AI-presented character. The book was researched and written from public sources: the FTC Funeral Rule and the FTC's consumer guide, industry associations and published guidance. The family stories are short composites with made-up names; no real funeral home, cemetery or person is described.
Is this legal or medical advice?
No. It is general information. Where money, law or health is involved, the book tells you when to ask a funeral home in writing, your state's funeral board, a lawyer or your doctor.
Is it a religious book?
It includes a few short verses from the King James Bible. You may read them or pass them by. The facts in the book do not depend on them.
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