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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
