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Funeral Consumer Advocate is designed to provide honest and valuable educational information for funeral consumers. This information is not for funeral homes or funeral professionals, but again, for funeral consumers.

About the Author

Mark DeSteffan is a licensed funeral director & embalmer. After many years in the funeral profession, including funeral home and cemetery management, he became disenchanted with the many tactics and ethics abuses he witnessed, while working in the corporate funeral arena.

          In 2009, he made the decision to pursue other ventures and devote special attention to consumer protection and education. After speaking out against the funeral industry, for safety reasons, he prefers to keep his location private.

This blog is dedicated to the memory of funeral advocate R. Brian Burkhardt, also known as "your funeral guy," who passed away on January 19, 2011.

R. Brian Burkhardt