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Jennifer Trudeau

Odor of death
Jennifer Trudeau

The Odor of Imminent Death

August 14, 2025 Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

Final responders know that death has its own particular odor, unique as a fingerprint. Once experienced, it’s not often forgotten: decomp-specific volatile organic compounds (VOCs) make the scent...

Ancient Mortuary
Jennifer Trudeau

Have Human Mortuary Practices Been Around for 245,000 Years? 

August 12, 2025 Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

Have human mortuary practices been around for 245,000 years? This may be the case. New archaeological evidence suggests that our ancient ancestors may have started burying their dead...

Cadaver Dog
Jennifer Trudeau

Dogs With Jobs: Sniffing Out the Missing Dead

August 6, 2025 Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

What would people do without dogs? They’re casual companions and emotional supporters; dogs fight beside us in battle, catch drug traffickers, backup law enforcement and border patrol, and...

Toe tag
Jennifer Trudeau

Restlessly Dead: Cadaveric Spasm

July 23, 2025 Embalming Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

Sometimes they shift. Some huff or groan. It’s expected… sort of; over time, studies have revealed that cadavers are more “restlessness” than we thought. Movements follow generally predictable...

Hearing
Jennifer Trudeau

The Last Thing You’ll Hear: What the Brain Still Listens for as Life Fades

July 9, 2025 Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

By the time my grandmother died after a series of strokes, she’d been unresponsive for about a week. My mother wouldn’t leave Grandma’s bedside — not to eat,...

Mushroom Casket
Jennifer Trudeau

The Magical Mushroom Technology Behind the “Cocoon”

July 2, 2025 Funeral Industry News Products & Services 0 Comments

For the tricky business of breaking down biological remains, few contenders pull the weight of mushroom-based products. As we’ve recently covered in some detail, America has had its...

Frozen man
Jennifer Trudeau

You’re Not Dead Until You’re Warm and Dead: Reanimating the Frozen 

June 5, 2025 Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

Science’s long-standing goal of resuscitating a frozen body has made intriguing progress recently, with frozen brain tissue successfully being restored to a functional state for the first time....

artificial intelligence
Jennifer Trudeau

Can AI Help Us Live Longer?

June 4, 2025 Funeral Industry News Technology 0 Comments

OpenAI is working with a biotech startup to develop an AI model with the purpose of engineering stem cells. The goal is to effectively step back natural age...

Animals understand death
Jennifer Trudeau

Do Animals Understand Death?

May 1, 2025 Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

Do animals understand death? Substantial research so far indicates that the answer is probably yes. Many species share humans’ basic neurochemical profile, which means we have certain emotional...

Recovering Frozen Remains
Jennifer Trudeau

The Treacherous Task of Recovering Frozen Remains

April 30, 2025 Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

It’s typical for deceased mountaineers at high altitudes to remain where they’ve fallen, making their final resting place in the snow -- transportation of mountain-climbing victims is treacherous...

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