Death Doulas in a Battle for Free Speech
If you’ve had the opportunity to worked with them, you know that death doulas traditionally fill the role of a guide, providing support and information to those preparing...
If you’ve had the opportunity to worked with them, you know that death doulas traditionally fill the role of a guide, providing support and information to those preparing...
A Utah widow who published a children's book about grief a year after losing her husband might be writing her next volume from prison. Kouri Richins of Utah...
Looking to offer clients an explosive way to really go out with a bang? In the 2019 movie “Poms”, cremation fireworks feature in the story as an option...
The recent climate of positivity in death care culture is a good thing on multiple levels: It helps to spread awareness, lessen stigma, and increase memorialization options. One...
File this one under “Things You Hope Never to Experience”: If your community is ever affected by a disaster of some kind which results in mass casualties, special...
In some ways, the circumstances of any death are irrelevant to the nature of the grief experienced by mourners: In each case mourners experience loss, usually based on...
Whether talking about whole, intact cadavers or piecemeal specimens (like an oversized heart, say, or a cancerous lung) the tissues of the dead are among the most valuable...
District 1 Medical Examiner Dr. Deanna Oleske is bringing charges against area funeral directors who submitted formal criticism about her performance of her duties by sending letters to...
Last Rites… the term itself is ominous. Pop culture and the media have bandied the phrase about for years without clearly bringing meaning to what such rites encompass....
What’s the role of a “funeral executor?” More and more frequently, people are appointing “funeral executors” – sometimes also called “funeral agents” – in the role of seeing...