Carl Sandberg student wins Trigard scholarship
Danville, IL – Trigard proudly awarded a $250 scholarship to Michell Morrow, a Carl Sandberg College Mortuary Science student, earlier this month. Trigard’s Project Manager, Blake Swinford,...
InvoCare Launches in Southern California, Should SCI and Other Funeral Corporations Be Worried?
In a press release sent out Wednesday, InvoCare called itself 'an industry start-up' and said the "funeral industry is dying". InvoCare is hardly a funeral industry start-up (maybe...
Throwback Thursday: Swedish Funeral Candy
Article from: Nourishing Death During the mid-nineteenth century in Sweden hard sugar candies, typically in the form of a corpse and wrapped in black crepe paper with fringes...
8 Imaginative Ways to Personalize a Funeral
Article by: Jessica Fowler, ASD - Answering Service For Directors Funeral Director and Writer, Thomas Lynch, once wrote, “a good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the...
Guidebook Helps Funeral Professionals Serve Pet Parents
Kates-Boylston Publishes “The Funeral Professional’s Guide to Pet Loss” WALL, N.J. – Kates-Boylston Publications is proud to announce the publication of “The Funeral Professional’s Guide to Pet Loss,”...
A Morbid Look at What Happens to Your Online Presence After You Die
Article from Business Insider Have you ever gotten a spam email from a friend who'd passed away? Or been reminded by Facebook of the birthday of a grad...
Top 7 Movies About Death
Article from Qeepr.com - Qeepr is a social media site dedicated to memorializing the lives of the departed with the aid of modern technology and a regular contributor...
What Funeral Directors Love Most About Their Calling
Last week we shared with you 'What Funeral Directors Would Say to People Thinking About Entering the Profession'. We must say, this article was pretty raw. We got...
Going Toe to Toe With Big Three Casket Companies Doesn’t Scare Chinese Importer, We’re Bulletproof
Article originally published on Bloomberg.com Armed with cheap Chinese imports, a Las Vegas entrepreneur takes on Big Casket When Jim Malamas finally sat down to dinner with Steve...
Grandma pulls final prank on family with joke obituary
FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Norma Brewer, 83, of Fairfield, died last month of a stroke after being wheelchair bound for more than a year. She was a beloved mother...