Animal Crossing Funerals Let Mourners Grieve in Cyberspace
For some of us, moving real life to the virtual realm is a new and strange experience. For others, replicating life in the digital world has been a...
Nearly 600 Funeral Director Volunteers Mobilized for COVID-19 Relief
Funeral directors, apprentices, and mortuary students across the country have mobilized in an unprecedented effort to help their colleagues and provide relief to funeral homes overwhelmed by coronavirus-related...
Mobituaries Podcast Celebrates Unusual Lives
What do Neanderthals, Thomas Paine, and Chuck Cunningham of Happy Days have in common? They’re all dead — and, in writer and humorist Mo Rocca’s opinion, they’re all...
Unity Station™ Lets Mourners Offer Drive-Through Condolences
A New York funeral home is adapting to the COVID-19 crisis by implementing an innovative drive-through visitation solution. Called Unity Station™, the device lets mourners offer drive-through condolences...
Strange Burial Requests and Unusual Grave Goods
They say you can’t take it with you — but that hasn’t stopped people from trying. For as long as we’ve been conducting burials, humans have included various...
5 Classic Comedies about Death and Mortality
Looking for a distraction in the form of some on-brand comic relief? Need an excuse to laugh at death? Try some classic comedies! For as long as we’ve...
Australian Funeral Industry Comes Under Fire From ACCC
Australia’s funeral home industry has come under fire from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission(ACCC), the country’s consumer watchdog organization. In their 2020 report, the ACCC trained its...
Funerals During the 1918 Flu Pandemic
Overflowing morgues. Caskets piled in the streets. Cemeteries running out of space. Amid the 1918 flu pandemic, the breakneck speed of the disease forced families to forgo formal...
Side Gigs Provide Stress Relief For Funeral Directors
The job of a funeral director involves long hours, emotionally draining interactions, and endlessly shifting schedules. They serve their clients at some of the most difficult times in...
Bangladeshi Sex Worker Receives Historic Funeral
In a historic act defying centuries of discrimination, a Bangladeshi woman just became the first sex worker to receive a formal Muslim funeral in the country’s largest brothel. ...