Is Cremation Really The Cheapest Option?
I don?t have a full blown article prepared, I just want to share with some highlights of a conversation I had last week with a friend who was...
Funeral Directors ? Evolving & Developing With The Times
I found this article online at TheBlogFactory.net. There is no author listed, but whoever wrote it made some very good points. Over the past couple of decades, society...
Colorado to Close Pipkin Mortuary After Body Mix-Up
The state has ordered a funeral home that mixed up the bodies of two women to close next week so regulators can investigate the incident. Pipkin Mortuary mistakenly...
Tributes.com Adds Robert J. Biggins to Funeral Service Advisory Board
Tributes, Inc., the online resource for local and national obituary news and multimedia tributes, announced today that they have added Robert J. Biggins, CFSP, CPC and owner of...
Domestic Partners Gain Funeral Rights
The Rhode Island General Assembly voted last month to override the veto by Gov. Donald Carcieri ?65 of a bill that will allow domestic partners to make arrangements...
Businessman Pays for Mass Burial of Haiti Quake Victims
On the seaside hills of Titanyen, where Haiti?s dictators discarded the bodies of political opponents, the dead have been dumped by the thousands among the thorn bushes, piled...
Who?s Afraid of Wal-Mart?
Were any of you startled or surprised to see or hear that Wal-Mart is now offering caskets to the general public? That is right. Wal-Mart is offering bronze,...
CDTV Episode #7 – Where is the Funeral Industry Headed? Interview WIth John Heald From Tributes.com
CDTV is the world's most fun funeral industry webshow, focused on industry trends, information, and products and how they can make funeral homes more profitable. CDTV is still...
Family Says Funeral Home ‘Lost’ Their Mother’s Body
A grieving family looks into an open casket and sees the wrong person's body. They say the Pipkin Mortuary in Denver first tried to tell them it was...
Comptroller’s Office Knew About Burr Oak Remains In ’03
Executives of the Burr Oak Cemetery believed more than six years ago that bodies had been improperly buried. And the details of what they knew are in a...