The Latest Trends in Death and Dying
Experts have been predicting a "death boom" - a direct result of the 1950s baby boom - for several years. Now that people are living longer, this boom...
Experts have been predicting a "death boom" - a direct result of the 1950s baby boom - for several years. Now that people are living longer, this boom...
As he approached the 29,000-foot peak of Mt. Everest, climber Rodney Hogg discovered the frozen body of his old friend, Peter Kinloch -- a 28-year-old from Scotland who...
WHAT: A funeral director in Australia stands accused of allowing bodies to decompose before cremation or burial because he failed to refrigerate the bodies in his care. HOW...
Myrtle Beach, SC -- Aurora Casket Company's Steve Slazyk offered up two continuing education seminars at the South Carolina Funeral Directors Association's 113th annual conference on June 14....
A Russian woman woke up at her own funeral after being wrongly declared dead - and minutes later suffered a fatal heart attack. Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, 49, started screaming...
Deerfield, Ill. - June 24, 2011 - Selected Independent Funeral Homes Educational Trust has awarded its second Hardship Grant of 2011 to Selected Member E. E. Pickle Funeral...
A Long Island woman discovered glass shards, metal staples and a partially melted crucifix among other debris in her father's ashes -- and now she's demanding an explanation...
A Long Island woman discovered glass shards, metal staples and a partially melted crucifix among other debris in her father's ashes -- and now she's demanding an explanation...
Deerfield, Ill. -- Selected Independent Funeral Homes, the world's largest and oldest association of independently owned funeral homes, announced today that it has open registration continuing through August...
Brookfield, Wis. - Members of the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) can now take advantage of a new benefit of membership, the NFDA Discount Advantage Program, which offers...