People's Memorial Association Newsletters
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People's Memorial Association In the News
- Esse, Erik. "Did You Know: Capitol Hill Hosts the Largest Funeral Co-op in the US." (March 2019). Central Co-op Blog. (Retrieved from URL) Discusses the history of PMA, its advocacy efforts, and why The Co-op Funeral Home of People's Memorial was started)
- Williams, Allison. "Human Composting Offers a Green New Way to Die." (March 2019). Seattle Met. Retrieved from URL (discusses Recomposition and mentions PMA's impact on the rise of cremation in Washington in the 1940s)
- Prasad, Ritu. "How do you compost a human body - and why would you?" (January 2019). BBC News. Retrieved from URL (discusses recomposition and the current efforts to legalize the new disposition option in WA State with input from PMA Executive Director Nora Menkin)
- Swanson, Jen. "Seattle, It's Time to Talk About Death." (January 2019). Seattle Magazine. (discusses the death positive movement happening on the West Coast and the key players involved, including PMA Executive Director Nora Menkin and President of the Board Elizabeth Coplan)
- Lee, Sammi-Jo. "These People are Transforming What Happens After You Die." (November 2017). Yes! Magazine. Retrieved from URL (highlights PMA Executive Director Nora Menkin as a funeral director who is giving death care back to the people)
- Lind, Treva. "Ranging funeral costs: It could pay to ask around." (January 2017). The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved from URL (discusses the importance of planning ahead and the PMA Funeral Price Survey)
- Lind, Treva. "Scattering ashes subject to laws, park guidelines, more." (January 2017). Newsday. Retreived from URL (discusses how to best scatter cremains)
- Kiley, Brendan. "Seattle could get an Urban Death Project human composter in just 7 years." (October 2016). The Seattle Times. Retrieved from URL (discusses the new death-care option Recomposition founded by Katrina Spade, with input from PMA Executive Director Nora Menkin)
- Luxton, Jennifer. "What's a Death Midwife? Inside the Alternative Death Care Movement." (September 2015). Yes! Magazine. Retrieved from URL (discusses PMA and the benefits of being a member)
- "Funeral Homes Charge Wide Range of Prices and Most Fail to Disclose Prices Adequately." (January 2016). Agewise King County. Retrieved from URL (discusses Funeral Consumer Alliance and People's Memorial Funeral Home Price Survey press release)
- "Funerals Go Co-op." (Winter 2009). Connections: Northwest Cooperative Development Center. Retrieved from URL (features The Co-op Funeral Home of People's Memorial)
- Anderson, Rick. "The Sliding Cost of Dying." Seattle Weekly 5 Oct. 2009 (discusses PMA Funeral Home Price Survey)
- Thompson, Connie. "Customers rate local funeral homes." KOMO 4 News 3 July 2008 (encourages consumers to pre-plan funerals, warns about prepaying them, and recommends the PMA Funeral Home Price Survey as a resource) Video
- Rollins, Michael. "Sorry You're Dead. Here's One More Tax. $50 for Cremation." The Oregonian Live 8 Dec. 2007 (discusses King County Cremation Tax)
- Taylor, Liz. Seattle Times 12 Nov. 2007; 19 Nov. 2007; 26 Nov. 2007 (three-part Aging Deliberately column series re: the funeral industry and planning funerals proactively, which references PMA and The Co-op Funeral Home of People's Memorial)
- "People's Memorial Association Releases State Funeral Survey." (Sept. 2007). Mortuary Management (a funeral industry publication)
- Harris, Craig. "Funeral Co-op Offers Lower Costs than Traditional Facilities." Seattle Post-Intelligencer 10 July 2007 (discusses The Co-op Funeral Home of People's Memorial and 2007 Funeral Home Price Survey)
- "Funerals Go Co-op in Seattle (blame SCI)." (July 2007). Funeral Monitor. Print (this funeral industry publication's headline article discusses the opening of The Co-op Funeral Home of People's Memorial, plus an editorial wake-up call to the funeral industry)
- Pulkkenin, Levi. "Standard Funeral Not Sole Option." Seattle Post-Intelligencer 18 March 2007 (discusses home funerals)
- Kiley, Brendan. "Funerals go 'Outside the box'." The Stranger 6 March 2007. Retrieved from URL (Press Release of the Day)
- Jensen, J.J. "Group Offers Guidance on Funeral Prices." Seattle Times 23 Nov. 2004 (discusses PMA Funeral Home Price Survey)
- Marlowe Hartnett, Kimberly. "How to Plan Your Own Funeral." Seattle Times 16 March 2004 (recommends PMA)
- Taylor, Liz. "People's Memorial Association Offers Reasonable Final Choices." Seattle Times, Growing Older column 3 March 2003
