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CLICK HERE to submit your thoughts as a consumer or organization directly to the Federal Trade Commission: regulations.gov/document/FTC-2023-0034-0001
INSTRUCTIONS- Click blue COMMENT button in top left of screen, leave your thoughts on the topics: Should Funeral Homes Have to Post Their Prices Online? (And if so, how should that be regulated? Feel free to share your own experiences with this issue!), Should the Required Embalming Disclosure be Made Clearer? (And if so, how? Feel free to share your own experiences with this issue!)
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SUPPORT the production of these videos through the Ask a Mortician Patreon: patreon.com/thegooddeath
MORE CAITLIN DOUGHTY
Read My Books: caitlindoughty.com/books
Face Your Mortality Course: mortalcourse.com
Podcast: apple.co/2yK6c6G
Spotify: spoti.fi/2QZEVEM
Instagram: instagram.com/ordergooddeath
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Your Host: Caitlin Doughty
Editor & Graphics: Timothy Meier
Thumbnail: Landis Blair
Special thanks to Tanya Marsh & Louise Hung, and the consumer orgs like the Funeral Consumers Alliance and National Home Funeral Alliance working with us to advocate for these changes.







![Visiting Hawaiis Tragic & Remote Leprosy Colony
Kalaupapa is a gorgeous place that represents a dark period of Hawaiian history.
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***READ MORE***
“A Wholesome Horror: The Stigmas of Leprosy in 19th Century Hawaii”. Ron Amundsen, University of Hawaii at Hilo. Disabilities Studies Quarterly, Vol. 30, 2010.
http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1270/1300
“Imposition of a Western Judicial System in the Hawaiian Monarchy”
https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10524/197/JL16052.pdf?sequence=2
“A Brief History of Kalaupapa”
https://www.nps.gov/kala/learn/historyculture/a-brief-history-of-kalaupapa.htm
“Taken From Their Families: The Dark History of Hawaii’s Leprosy Colony”
https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/09/health/leprosy-kalaupapa-hawaii/index.html
“Hawaii’s Father Damien: From Priesthood to Sainthood”
https://www.hawaiimagazine.com/blogs/hawaii_today/2009/10/10/Damien_Hawaii_Saint_Molokai_Kalaupapa_canonization
“The Strange Case of Father Damien [parts 1-3]”
https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2015/05/01/the-strange-case-of-father-damien-part-1-of-3/
“Exploring the Tragic Beauty of Hawaii’s Remote Kalaupapa”
https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/exploring-the-tragic-beauty-of-hawaiirsquos-remote-kalaupapa/ Visiting Hawaiis Tragic & Remote Leprosy Colony](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kpR54iv5c0U/mqdefault.jpg)


