Financial support if someone has died

Information about the financial support that is available from the Accident Compensation Corporation when someone has died in an accident.

Funeral drant

Income and asset-tested grants to assist with some of the costs of funerals are available from Work and Income.

Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand

The website of the Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand includes information about what to do when someone dies.

Skylight

A New Zealand not-for-profit organisation providing support for children, young people and their families facing loss, trauma and grief.

Schafer, Cyril. 'Dead serious? Funeral directing in New Zealand.' Sites 4, no.1 (2007): 95–121.

Schwass, Margot, ed. Last words: approaches to death in New Zealand's cultures and faiths. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books with the Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand, 2005.

Tonkin, Lois. Everybody hurts sometimes: a book about grief for children and teenagers. Christchurch: Port Hills Press, 1997.

Tonkin, Lois. Understanding grief: a guide for people dealing with the death of someone close. Wellington: Cancer Society of New Zealand, 2001.