Hearing: The Bereaved Consumer’s Bill of Rights Act of 2010
WASHINGTON, DC ?? "In early July 2009, horrific allegations and disturbing media images shocked the nation as news about the unauthorized removal of hundreds of human bodies, and...
Suck Up Your Dead! New “Urn-a-Matic” Vacuum Cleaner
This unlikely urn was originally part of an art exhibit (and was sold for $1,900). It was recently featured in an L.A. Times article about futuristic, funky and...
Apple Ditches iPad, Unveils iCasket?
Steve Jobs shocked the world today by abandoning Apple's long-awaited iPad tablet in favor of the iCasket, a high-tech coffin that allows the dead to send text messages,...
What Have I Gotten Myself Into? – Toby Sutton
Toby Sutton is an Embalmer/ Funeral Director at Emerson Funeral Home in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He graduated from Weiner High School in 1996, University of Arkansas at Monticello in...
We Want To Hear From You
Today is a very exciting day!! I am traveling to Chicago for the Wilbert Funeral Services annual Sales meeting, but while I am there I will be doing...
Man Pronounced Dead, Found Alive in Casket
As the lid of his coffin was about to be sealed, Josef Guzy?s grieving widow made one last request for her late husband?s necklace. The 76-year-old Polish beekeeper...
Tony Stewart’s 1984 Cadillac Hearse – Smoke Deville – Pictures
As I was channel surfing last night I came across a re-run of a 2006 episode of Unique Whips, a reality show on SpeedTv that features Unique Autosports...
The Treatment of Those Who Died in the Haitian Earthquake
The members of the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA), the National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association (NFD&MA), the Cremation Association of North America (CANA), the Casket and Funeral...
2,000 People Apply For Embalmer Job!
Designing computer chips and marketing flat screen televisions are not the only desirable jobs in Taiwan, one of Asia's high-tech hubs - there's also embalming. When a funeral...
Costco Delivers Casket to Wrong Funeral Home, Wrong State!
The following is a letter written to The Consumerist, by a gentleman who ordered a casket from Costco's for his mothers funeral. The letter was posted on The...