Store
Our OFDA eStore provides grief related and professional resources sold in discount quantities indicated below.
Questions or if you need assistance please contact the following:
Amy Zanetos for Brochures, Personal Response or OSHA Manuals
Amy Baucher for Apprentice Study Guide (under Manuals)
Please feel free to contact the OFDA office at (614) 486-5339 for assistance.
Brochures
Choosing Cremation
This brochure looks at some of the issues and options involving cremation as a process for disposition of a human body.
"Making the personal choice to cremate involves many decisions. Consult with your funeral director regarding the legal documents necessary for cremation and the pre-planning services available. It is wise to consider all the options and ask questions before making final decisions about such an important event."
As with traditional earth burial, the type of cremation service is subject to the personal choices of the family. Such services might include visitation, public or private funeral service with the casketed body present, or a memorial service which may be held prior to or following the cremation process.
The Contemporary Funeral
This booklet has been prepared as a convenient reference for contemporary funeral practices and customs. It offers guidelines on social responsibilities at the time of a person's death.
Death Away From Home
This helpful brochure informs you of what will take place if a death occurs out of the country or if the person wants to be buried in a different community than which they had lived. Always remember that the family's home funeral service professional is available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. The funeral service professional can coordinate all services by telephone. These services include:
- Arrangement for transportation of the deceased
- Preparation of the deceased
- Acquiring proper documentation
- Planning the funeral or memorial service
- Arrangement of the burial or cremation, based on the personal choices of the surviving loved ones
Living With Grief
This recently revised brochure looks at various experiences of grief including shock and denial, emotional release, loneliness, physical symptoms, disorientation, guilt, anger and depression; as well as ways to help manage grief.
"People are forever changed by the experience of grief in their lives. We, as humans, do not 'get over' our grief, but work to reconcile ouselves to living with it. . ."
--Alan Wolfelt
Center for Loss & Life Transition
Should Children Know About Death?
It's always difficult to know what to say to a child who is grieving the loss of a loved one, whether it be the death of a friend, family member or relative. This brochure offers some suggestions in helping children understand the concepts of death as well as basic terminology.
New to the Resource Center is information in leaflet form for: Primary, Intermediate, and High School Students. These leaflets provide an additional resource when dealing with age specific questions regarding death and what to expect.
- What is a funeral home?
- What happens to the body?
- What will I see at the funeral home?
- Is it ok to touch the body?
- What happens when we die?
- What are the feelings I may have?
