Bereavement Fares Sky High, South Florida Getting Nailed
Each day, about 15 dead people fly out of South Florida, taking a one-way trip in a cargo hold to their final resting place. During the winter months,...
Facebook Forever: eTomb Offers Digital Immortality, Tweet From The Grave?
Resting in peace just got a whole lot harder. A new concept headstone called the eTomb will make it possible to tweet from the grave. Literally. Here's how...
Memphis Funeral Home Fined for Wrong Body Case
Fines and suspensions have been levied against a Summer Avenue funeral home and a mortuary that last year cremated a man meant for burial and buried a woman...
Judge Sanctions SCI Cemetery For Evidence Tampering
A Los Angeles judge has sanctioned Service Corporation International (SCI), owner of Eden Memorial Park in Mission Hills, after finding that the cemetery intentionally tampered with and destroyed...
LA County Coroner Sells Own Line of Merchandise
The morgue is about the last place you would think of to go shopping, so it's perhaps unsurprising that sales at Los Angeles County's coroner gift store are...
MortuaryMall.com Announces The Funeral Industry’s First “Black Friday” Sales Event
On the busiest shopping day of the year, now only a few days away, funeral service professionals can take advantage of amazing deals right from the comfort of...
MortuaryMall.com Announces The Funeral Industry's First "Black Friday" Sales Event
On the busiest shopping day of the year, now only a few days away, funeral service professionals can take advantage of amazing deals right from the comfort of...
Should Batesville Have Partnered With Another Vault Company?
We haven't talked about the new Endura burial vault from Batesville in a few weeks, but some follow up conversations with a few funeral homes who are in...
50-Count Indictment Alleges Massive Preneed Funeral Fraud
ST. LOUIS -- Officers at a prearranged funeral business defrauded customers, funeral homes and states out of as much as $600 million, according to a 50-count federal indictment...
PBS Documentary on End-of-Life Care Airs Tonight
A new documentary, Facing Death, which was written, produced and directed by Miri Navasky and Karen O'Connor, the women behind the Emmy-award winning FRONTLINE documentary The Undertaking, will...