Mission

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Providing Information, Education and Advocacy since 1966.

Mission

To protect and empower people making decisions regarding end-of-life health care and disposition
of human remains.
The funeral industry in North Carolina is sometimes encountered by people only at the time of a death --
a time when most of us are stressed and decisions may be hasty.
This is when emotional vulnerability makes us prey for the unscrupulous.
FCAT strives to provide information and education to people well in advance of their need for it.
We also advocate for the public with various government agencies.
We have found that funeral homes using sensitive, ethical business practices applaud
FCAT's efforts to educate the public.

FCAT encourages:

  • Early consideration of personal values
  • Advance document preparation
  • Informed decisions regarding burial and types of service
  • Knowledge about laws in NC regarding disposition of remains
  • Open information regarding funeral home practices and pricing
  • Curiosity about the body disposition process

Join us!  Your experience, ideas, talents will help us grow this burgeoning social cause.

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Who We Are

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Funeral Consumers Alliance (Funeral and Memorial Society of America)               
Provides educational material on funeral choices Lobbies as a consumer advocate for reforms on the national level and lends support for changes where needed on the state  or local level. Supports local memorial societies and serves as a conduit for exchanging information between societies.    Monitors the funeral industry trends and practices nationally  serves as a credible source for media covering issues on  death and dying.     

You are invited to visit the FCA (FAMSA) web page. There is a wealth of information to be found there, including lists of available pamphlets, books and videos. Don't miss  the page of macabre humor with the dancing skeleton and the grave stone with changing epitaphs.
              

              

Other Funeral Consumer Organizations in North Carolina

              

-Asheville

                               

Funeral Consumers Alliance of Western North Carolina 
                   P O Box 2601 
                   Asheville, NC 28802-2601 
                    Jenifer Morgan 828-669-6011
                   E-Mail: jmorgan at yancey dot main dot nc dot us
                   http://www.funerals.org/affiliates/fcawnc"> FCAWNC Web Page

                             

-Charlotte

                                Funeral Consumers Alliance of the Central Carolinas 
                 P O Box 26507 
                 Charlotte, NC 28221 
                 Mary Brack 704-596-1208
                 E-Mail: fcacc at netscape dot com                             

-Wilmington

                                Memorial Society of Coastal Carolina 
                 P O Box 4262 
                 Wilmington, NC 28406-4262 
                 910-458-4136
                  Glenna Kiner 910-256-0038 
                 E-Mail: gleneu at aol dot com
                             

Or, in general: http://www.funerals.org/affiliates-directory#NC">FCA Affiliates List

Contact Us

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Contact Us

We are a volunteer organization with distributed, virtual offices.

We handle inquries as rapidly as we can, but emphasize planning in advance of need.

While we try to be responsive when a death has occurred, once a funeral establishment has taken charge of a body the range of options we can suggest becomes more limited.

We do not have funds for assisting with funeral expenses.

But if you call before contacting a funeral home we may be able to suggest cost-reducting alternatives if money is a problem.

Address

P.O Box 5051
CARY  NC  27512-5051

Web site

www.fcat-nc.org

Email

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Phone

919.787.2463

Terms and Conditions

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fcat-nc.org - Terms and Conditions of Use

This site is available to assist the public and FCAT members to access information to help them in advance planning for end-of-life health care decisions as well as to choices relating to disposition of bodies and holding of funeral or memorial services and use of cemeteries. Some users may come because they are facing urgent, stressful situations. Treat everybody gently.

We have provided means for registered users to add comments to articles and to start and reply to posted messages in our forum.

We take measures to try to prevent registration by persons or robots who are not who they say they are.

While we welcome discussion and varied points of view, we expect this to be done with tolerance and compassion for others. We will not tolerate lack of civility or bad language, no matter how strongly a person feels about a subject and will act as soon as poss8ible to remove material that does not meet these standards. 
If you are in doubt about our interpretations, feel free to ask This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  before making a post.

--- FCAT Website Administration.

Why you need what FCAT offers

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FCAT is here for YOU...

... because bad things do happen in the stress at end of life.

Honest mistakes can be very painful. And attempts to profit from consumer ignorance may be costly as well as painful.

FCAT is here, especially in advance of need, but also when a crisis arises, to help you in dealing with the funeral and cemetery markets with which you may be unfamiliar.

For example:

Preneed Contracts - Board of Funeral Services Sanctions Laurinburg NC Funeral Home
by  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Ed)
The Pilot, Southern Pines NC, Friday, July 29, 2011
The N.C. Board of Funeral Services has sanctioned Purcell Funeral Home [Laurinburg NC] and its director, Kenny Purcell, for violations related to preneed contracts.
According to a consent document filed in the matter, an examination of funeral home practices conducted in 2010 concluded that the funeral home committed fraud in the practice of preneed funeral planning and in the practice of funeral service.
http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/feed%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.funerals.org%2Fnewsandalerts%2Fdailydirge%3Fformat%3Dfeed%26type%3Drss

FCAT advises against paying for preneed contracts in most cases for several reasons.

Direct Cremation - may not include the cost of the actual cremation process. Ask at least twice to be sure what the TOTAL cost of direct cremation will be and will include.

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