The Funeral Consumers Alliance of the Finger Lakes (formerly known as the Ithaca Memorial Society) is a nonprofit organization guided by a voluntary board of directors. It is financed entirely by donations.

The purposes of the Alliance are: to promote consumer education and protection with regard to funeral-related issues; to promote dignity, simplicity and humane value of funerals and memorial services; to increase the opportunity for each person to determine the type of funeral or memorial service he or she desires; and to assist members and their families and the general public in making advance plans for funeral arrangements and services, in accordance with their preferences, at reasonable cost.

The Alliance publicizes funeral-related issues and, by contacting state legislators, actively supports legislation that benefits funeral consumers. It actively opposes legislation designed to benefit funeral businesses but not consumers.

The Alliance also contracts with funeral homes for reasonable, simple, and dignified funeral services so that its members may plan their own arrangements. In this way, survivors are spared difficult decisions and excessive costs at the time of a member's death.

The FCA of the Finger Lakes is happy to provide speakers to discuss advance planning and other funeral-related issues with community or church groups. Contact us if your group is interested.

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This organization is a member of the Funeral Consumers Alliance, a federation of nonprofit consumer information societies in the U.S.A. and Canada. Transfer rights are shared with other FCAs and memorial societies, thus permitting our members to use receive services when they move elsewhere.

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