AI Can Tell You When You’ll Die
Seriously. Artificial intelligence (AI) has real superpowers; they’re all over the news. This is just another one: AI can identify heart patients who don’t have long to live. ...
7 Ways to Update Your Funeral Home’s Website
A digital presence is both vital and priceless in today’s economic landscape, and while deathcare is in some ways a bit recession-proof because demand will always be there,...
What Does “Human Dignity” Mean in the Eyes of the Church?
Families selecting methods of final disposition do so by consulting deeply personal religion-based beliefs, which often limit options. Jewish law doesn't favor, as a single example, cremation. It's...
High-Tech Deathcare: Software as a Service (SaaS)
COVID pretty much instantly altered the way funeral homes operate. When in-person events and services became impossible, funeral directors everywhere scrambled to get computer-savvy in a hurry. The...
Covid’s Not Done with Us Yet
With the success of Covid-19 vaccination programs in the US and abroad, Covid deaths and cases of extreme illness have fallen well below the numbers of the worst...
The Evolution of Alkaline Hydrolysis
Alkaline hydrolysis has a little bit of a “new kid on the block” vibe to it, as green disposition methods go. Though in a few places it has been...
All You Need to Know About Brain Donation
So did you know that you can donate your brain for purposes of neurological research? I mean, just your brain, if that’s your jam? Donors may designate the...
The State of the EPA’s Formaldehyde Investigation
You’ve probably heard all about the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigation on formaldehyde. You probably also know that since the study began, the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA)...
The Pleasant Surprises of Cold Weather
With all the recent talk about the ways serious cold weather makes life harder in general and increases death care business, it’s easy to focus on the less...
Deadly Everest
In addition to being the tallest summit and highest point on earth, Mt. Everest is also deadly. Since it was first conquered in 1953, over 500 people attempt...