CREAM-ated Remains & Real(ly Frustrated) Housewives | 4M #196
Welcome to the hundred-and-ninety-sixth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #196, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations in the week ahead. Bon appetit!
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New Jersey is poised to become the 14th state to legalize natural organic reduction. A bill that “allows for natural organic reduction and controlled supervised decomposition of human remains” was overwhelmingly passed by both the New Jersey Senate (37-2) and the Assembly (72-1-0) on June 30, 2025, and is now awaiting the signature of Governor Phil Murphy. On a related note, July 1 was the first day NOR could be offered to families legally by practitioners in both Georgia and Minnesota.
Maybe don’t drink that
This Walmart shopper had questions (as do we) but no good answers about why her recent Walmart delivery order of Dr. Pepper Cream Soda Zero Sugar was delivered in the new USPS Cremated Remains box:
Ugh … “THIS”
From Vulture’s “The Real Housewives of Miami Recap: Blowing a Casket,” an article by writer Tom Smyth: “There have been nearly 2,000 episodes of the Real Housewives franchise at this point, so for these women to still find new ways to shock me is beyond remarkable. But my jaw dropped when Lisa reveals that she texted Larsa a photo of her dead father lying in his casket with the caption, “THIS is what I’m dealing with.” Marysol and Alexia are speechless. The craziest part is that Larsa never brings it up the whole episode. I need to know what Larsa’s reaction to receiving a photo of a corpse was.”
Not a new TikTok trend (we hope)
Over the last few months, two caskets were abandoned on the roadside — one in the Orange Mound community of Memphis, Tennessee, and another in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Both incidents have perplexed passersby as well as the public, who understandably had questions. Although the original purchasers (or inhabitants) of each of these caskets remain mysteries, it has been revealed that the Maryland casket was dumped after being discovered in an abandoned apartment, while the Memphis casket was dropped by a man who was salvaging scrap metal because he didn’t have room for it in his truck.
