Joshua Slocum, executive director of the National Funeral Consumers’ Alliance, will present It’s Not Your Grandparents’ Funeral Anymore at 2 p.m., November 6, 2021, at the North Providence Union Free Library. Attendance via Zoom will also be available.

His topics will include end-of-life options gaining popularity, preparing for end-of-life issues in these unprecedented times, national issues regarding funerals since the pandemic with time for questions and answers following the presentation. Slocum co-authored a book with Lisa Carlson titled, Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death.