Funeral Planning in Advance: Documenting Your Wishes for a Natural Burial
April's installment of the Green Burial Council's Monthly Free Webinar series
Part of the Monthly Free Webinar series hosted by the Green Burial Council
Taking time to document your funeral and disposition preferences can prevent confusion, conflict, and unnecessary expense. In this educational session, we’ll explain how to formally appoint a designated agent, outline your green burial wishes, and ensure your instructions are legally-recognized. We’ll also discuss best practices for communicating your plans and integrating them into broader advance care planning with both your values and the planet in-mind
Featured Speaker: Tanya Marsh
Tanya D. Marsh is the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Law at Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A graduate of Indiana University and Harvard Law School, Marsh practiced commercial real estate and corporate law in her hometown of Indianapolis for ten years before joining the faculty at Wake Forest in 2010. She teaches Property, Trusts and Estates, and the only course in Funeral and Cemetery Law in a U.S. law school. Her scholarship focuses on the status, treatment, and disposition of human remains. She frequently gives presentations to attorneys, funeral industry professionals, and community groups about this area of law. She has been cited in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Rolling Stone. Marsh is the author of The Law of Human Remains (2015), the first treatise on the subject since 1950, and the co-author (with former student Daniel Gibson) of Cemetery Law: The Common Law of Burying Grounds in the United States (2015).