The National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) will co-host the third-annual Asia Funeral Expo & Conference (AFE) at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, May 13-15, 2010. AFE...
I'm all good with pre-planning your own funeral, but this is going to the extreme: Remember Coffin Academy, the self-help retreat in South Korea that lets you simulate...
We CAN take it with us? Since the beginning of burials, man has often gone to the grave with company. These days, funeral directors grant most requests: a...
CHINA - ONLY 100 out of 3,000 college students who applied for funeral industry jobs last year are staying in the field, just eight months after enthusiastically starting...
Walmart, Costco, and Amazon have taken the plunge into the funeral industry by selling urns and caskets. Luckily, they aren't selling burial vaults, yet, but I am sure...
I was sent a link to this article through Twiiter (@ryanthogmartin). After reading it I thought it was a great article and poses a question many of us...
A two-month long investigation of the sales practices of New York City funeral homes finds may of them are playing fast and loose with city regulations. Department of...
NEW "green" laws look set to push up the cost of a cremation in Scarborough to more than (more…)
NEW "green" laws look set to push up the cost of a cremation in Scarborough to more than (more…)
A ?Super Bad? Internet rumor is playing ?I Got You? with the British tabloids, which claimed yesterday that the corpse of soul superstar James Brown was stolen, but...