Big Death Energy & Stark Contrasts | 4M #222
Welcome to the two-hundred-and-twenty-second edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #222, 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!
2025 Wrapped — VA version
The Department of Veterans Affairs released a statement on December 30 detailing its 2025 fiscal year grant activity in regard to veterans cemeteries. Through the department’s grants, the VA handled more than 43,705 burials of Veterans and eligible family members. These burials, they noted in the release, account for “roughly a quarter of the 174,705 interments carried out annually across all national and VA grant-funded Veterans cemeteries.” In addition, $77 million was granted to support new cemeteries or improvements to properties in 14 states.
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“Sleep when you’re dead”
Our friends at Titan Casket are at it again — “it” being doing something super cool, quite unexpected, and with a playful nod to deathcare. This time, they’ve dipped their toes into the energy drink game with AWAKE (get it? A Wake?), the “World’s First Casket Company Energy Drink” (yes, no doubt). It’s only sold by Titan, and you can get yours here. That 116 mg of caffeine might be just the thing you need to get through those late-night calls.
Bless her heart
Pan Meili, a 30-something deathcare influencer in China, just can’t catch a break. She’s found great success talking about her trade on social media — partly because she looks like a famous Chinese singer and partly because of “the stark contrast between her good looks and her job of dealing with the dead.” So … attractive people aren’t supposed to go into deathcare? Apparently not, as she’s been criticized for her “use of makeup, nail polish and perfume while working,” although she says “they do not affect her performance.” Well … I don’t know which part of this is most insulting.
