Eco-Funeral Resources is a charitable company established by Te Atawhai Aroha Compassionate Communities Rotorua Trust and Ngā Pou Herenga: the End-of Life and Funeral Guides’ Collective. We access and distribute professional grade Cooling Platforms, offering a dignified non invasive alternative to embalming. The focus is on helping those families with

The Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand has just released it’s latest figures showing how geography affects the cost of dying. Read this article to find out more details – https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360757667/cost-dying-going-where-cheapest-place-be-buried-or-cremated Rotorua offers the cheapest cremation rates in the country.

Death without Debt, an advocacy group, want Funeral Directors removed as the middlemen in cremations because it is costing people money. Fergus Wheeler, the spokesman for Death without Debt explained that two doctors were required to sign off on a death for cremation – the first observes the body and

Dr Tess Moeke-Maxwell, Senior Research Fellow at Te Ārai Palliative Care & End-of-life Research Group talks about a study of bereaved Māori whānau experiences with deaths during COVID-19 lockdown. New Zealand’s COVID-19 Tangihanga (funeral) policies required a tūpāpaku (body) to be uplifted by a Funeral Director immediately after a Death Certificate

By Lyn Walmsley – Trustee of Hāparangi A2 Reservation Hāparangi A2 is a 54ha farm block, located beneath the Hāparangi mountain alongside the main highway to Horohoro. In 2009, the whānau of Hāparangi A2 initiated a revegetation project, planting native trees alongside a natural waterway with the intention of protecting