Burris Linked to Troubled Trade Association
Newly appointed Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., has dealt with questions about his ties to impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich, but now questions are being raised about his links to...
Funeral Home Directors Lose Licenses over Plan to Sell Body Parts Without Consent
January 7, 2009 - Two Newark-area funeral directors agreed to turn in their mortuary science licenses after they were cited for planning to harvest body parts from corpses...
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush Unveils The Bereaved Consumers Protection Act
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush unveiled legislation today that would expand the powers of the federal government by creating a new level of oversight for cemeteries to prevent the...
Flashy Funerals – A Last Chance to Make a Good Impression
The hunter's family came in with a simple photograph of the deceased, snapped during a trek through the woods. The funeral director asked the family members to describe...
Economy Takes Toll on Funeral Planning
Recession stresses have changed the way many in the Rochester community look at life. And death, too. Local funeral homes, cemeteries, florists and ancillary businesses report that families...
Open-Door Morgue Leaves Bodies Up For Grabs
AUSTRALIA - SECURITY at one of Sydney's biggest hospitals is so lax that anyone can walk into the morgue and claim a body without showing identification, prompting fears...
Unqualified Undertakers Working Out of Their Loungerooms
AUSTRALIA - SELF-declared undertakers with no qualifications or experience are setting up shop in their lounge rooms to cash in on the lucrative funeral industry. Major Queensland funeral...
Is the Economy Really Putting the Deathcare Industry In a Recession?
When I used to tell people that I worked in the deathcare industry, they would all say the same thing: ?I guess you will always have plenty of...
The summer of celebrity deaths?
One after the other, they were dying: Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon, all in the same week earlier this summer. Next were Walter Cronkite, John Hughes...
Illinois Newspaper Has an Opinion: Have a Single Agency Regulate Death Industry
IT SEEMS to be almost unanimous: The Illinois comptroller should not be in charge of regulating the state?s cemeteries. Instead, regulatory authority should be placed solely in the...