Who runs this site and why

My name is Dan Swenson. I am a workers' compensation attorney at Robert Wilson & Associates in Minneapolis, Minnesota attorney license 0396275. I build a small family of free Minnesota websites from public records, and this is one of them.

This one exists because funeral decisions happen at the worst possible moment to make decisions. Families choose a funeral home in hours, under grief, usually for the first time, and usually without knowing that federal law gives them a right to itemized prices or that Minnesota licenses and inspects every funeral establishment. The information is all public. It is just not gathered anywhere calm.

So this site does three things. It lists every funeral establishment licensed by the Minnesota Department of Health, from the state's own records, with no ads and no paid placement. It explains your rights in plain English. And it offers a checklist for the first days, because most of what feels urgent that week is not.

What this site will never do

• It will never contact a grieving family. Not by email, not by phone, not by anything. Every conversation this site is part of begins with you.
• It will never take money from funeral homes: no advertising, no placement, no ranking, no way to look better here than the state's records show.
• It will never sell or share your information. The site works without giving us any.

The honest disclosure

I practice workers' compensation law, which includes dependency claims when a worker's death is related to their job. One page on this site describes when a death may involve legal rights, and that page includes a way to send me a note if you choose to. That is the extent of it. The checklist, the directory, and the rights pages carry no forms and ask you for nothing. This site is attorney advertising under the rules that govern lawyers, and I put my name on it so you know exactly who is behind it.

If something on this site is wrong, or a license record looks off, I want to know: daniel.c.swenson@gmail.com.