Your 14 Favorite Connecting Directors Features of 2023

If the articles most Connecting Directors readers enjoyed are any indication, 2023 was a year where you wanted to learn more about the Catholic church, a potential acquisition, laws and regulations, and a few folks giving deathcare a very bad name. Let’s take a closer look at what interested you most over the last 12 months.

14. Stuff people are ordering from Amazon instead of from you.

The Top 50 Funeral Products Your Families Are Buying From Amazon … And Why

13. Two terrible people who tried to run but couldn’t hide.

Return to Nature Owners Have Been Located and Arrested

12. How AH got from the farm to the funeral home.

The Evolution of Alkaline Hydrolysis

11. Your dream car (come on, admit it).

A Dutch Company Converted a Tesla Model 3 Into a Hearse and the Reaction is *FIRE*

10. A horrible story we wish we hadn’t had to report.

115 Decomposing Bodies Discovered at “Green” Colorado FH Facility on October 6; Are Lax Laws to Blame?

9. Someone getting their feelings hurt and trying to get even.

Florida Medical Examiner Sues Funeral Directors for Complaining About Her

8. A change of plans.

Park Lawn Withdraws Offer to Purchase Carriage Services, Inc.

7. The wrong thing to do at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Funeral Home Owner Charged In Cemetery Shooting Death at 10-Year-Old’s Funeral

6. A measured response to a rumored acquisition.

Carriage Services Issues Statement: Reviewing “Strategic Alternatives”

5. Another law made necessary because warnings weren’t heeded.

Embalming Fluid as a Controlled Substance: The Rakim Shackleford Act

4. Seven down, 43 to go!

Nevada Becomes Seventh State to Legalize Natural Organic Reduction

3. The aforementioned rumored acquisition.

Park Lawn Proposes to Acquire Carriage Services

2. All you need to know about Catholic death rituals.

The Catholic Church On End of Life and Last Rites

1. A startling (and still confusing) change of policy.

New Vatican Proclamation on Cremains Opens Up Options for Catholic Families