Last month I listened to a great presentation from Mike Nicodemus titled "Cremation Litigation". Mike talked about cremation procedures and how to avoid legal situations by following simple...
After several delays and postponements, enforcement of the Federal Trade Commission?s Red Flags Rule is slated to begin June 1. The regulation would require all businesses that fall...
Funeral Service Insider's annual compensation survey is now open. Every year, funeral service professionals eagerly look forward to the results of the survey, which is open to funeral...
As many of you know last week I had the privilege of co-hosting the first ever "Digital Death Day" un-conference in Mountain View, California. One of the attendees...
At the Cannes Film Festival recently, director Woody Allen said about death, "I'm strongly against it." No doubt he was serious, but the former stand-up comedian was also...
The National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) is now accepting registrations for its 2010 Leadership Conference, July 11-14. Hosted at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Resort in Cambridge, Md.,...
Tiffany Stewart is currently a graduate student at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas and expects to complete a Masters in Counseling in 2011. Her areas of...
Boston - Police were able to track down a man who was stealing flowers from a gravesite thanks to GPS technology. Rick and Donna Muzzy's son Kevin was...
I have always been fascinated with tech, and this week I have had the opportunity to be in the heart of tech, Silicon Valley. I am attending Internet...
A Philadelphia woman faces escape charges after she allegedly hid in a coffin at a central Pennsylvania funeral home after running away from authorities in handcuffs. Nineteen-year-old Nicole...