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...
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,...