Death sits in paradox. In it we find impossible co-mixtures of intrinsic opposites. Perhaps, this is why death is the...

Do you think funeral homes charge too much for their merchandise and services?

Just to be clear, I — like most independent funeral directors — don’t like corporate run funeral homes. I think...

I work with both my dad and my grandfather.  When I first started at the funeral home as a young,...

Val Patterson — a little known scientist from Utah — wrote for himself one of the more intriguing (and long)...

Fred Phelps died. A couple days ago, we learned that the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church – infamous for...

I grabbed my suit, put it back on, drove to the funeral home, loaded the collapsible stretcher into the hearse...

Funeral photography, funeral selfies and “corpsies” via mobile devices are becoming more and more normal at death beds AND funerals,...

Yes, firing a funeral director at this point in the game is like walking out midway through a haircut. But...

The funeral industry is too often known for its worst practitioners. The practitioners who take financial advantage of the bereaved...