IKEA Offering Caskets Too, and a DIY Guide?
We can now add IKEA to the list of online casket retailers right along side online retail giants Walmart and Amazon. IKEA is taking it a step further...
NFDA Names Edward J. Defort Editor-in-chief of The Director Magazine
Edward J. Defort, veteran funeral service trade publication editor and writer, has been named the new editor-in-chief of The Director magazine, the official publication of the National Funeral...
What Your Banker Thinks of Your Real Estate
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...
Southwest Finds Shipment of Human Heads on a Plane
A Southwest Airlines employee called police after finding human heads in a package set to be transported to a Fort Worth medical research company, the airline said.
Stewart Enterprise, Funeral Consumers Alliance, Enter Agreement to End Lawsuit
Stewart Enterprises, Inc., Funeral Consumers Alliance, Inc. (FCA), and their respective counsel today jointly announced that Stewart and FCA have entered into a confidential Settlement Agreement ending a...
Friday Funny – CNN Breaking News – Must Watch!
This weeks content hasn't been the most positive. The news that is coming out of Arlington National Cemetery is very sad and disheartening. Our industry really doesn't need...
Funeral Home Fined; Accused in Arlington Problems
A Virginia funeral home accused of mishandling bodies awaiting burial at Arlington National Cemetery has been fined $50,000. The Virginia Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers and National...
Funeral Director Accused of Misdeeds, Drug Use, and Nudity?
Accused director allegedly mishandled corpse. State regulators in Ohio have shut down a funeral home where a director is accused of mishandling a corpse and other misdeeds. The...
Arlington National Cemetery Headstones Found Lining Stream Bed
Several mud-caked headstones line the banks of a small stream at Arlington National Cemetery, the country's most venerated burial ground. Farther upstream in a wooded area, a few...
Carriage Services Acquires California Funeral Home
Carriage Services Inc. has acquired funeral home business Heritage Memorial Services. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Houston-based Carriage, also a death care services provider, purchased...