13 Leading Death Professionals Predict the Future of Cremation… Their Ideas Will Surprise You.
What does the future of cremation look like? We all want to know if we will see the type of massive change in the next 30 years that...
ModUrn Offers Unprecedented Pre-need Keepsakes for Collecting Living Memories
Only rarely does a product come along that fixes a problem you didn't know you had. While perusing the vendors at the CANA 2018 Convention, I had an unexpected...
4 Quotes From CANA 2018 That Will Change How You Think About Cremation Forever
We just wrapped up an enlightening week at the Cremation Association of North America Convention (CANA 2018) in Fort Lauderdale where 150 of the top cremation professionals gathered to share...
Fishing Boat Caskets Splash into the Niche Memorial Marketplace
This has been a big month for novelty caskets (more to come...) and the latest to make headlines is by a company named Glory Boats. Founder Joel Schmidt makes fishing boat...
The Intl. Death Online Research Symposium is Shaping a Successful Digital Afterlife
Niche academic conferences explore seemingly useless or mundane topics that, according to the passionate attendees, have deep cultural implications with the potential to shape the fabric of our...
Learn Why Halcyon Platinum is Being Nominated for Funeral Industry Awards
We had the pleasure of interviewing Sara Gard and Perry Gard about their business Halcyon, a funeral home, and crematory management software company. They recently released an impressive new product...
Surprising “Ashes Bank” Helps Save India’s Ganges River from Pollution
The Ganges River is a spiritual center for Hinduism and as the population of India grows the ancient rituals are putting and immense stress on the environmental stability of...
Learn How This 85-call Funeral Home Generated 28% More Calls in 2018
When speaking with funeral homes, one of the most common reasons funeral directors give for not having an active social media presence is "our community is too small."...
Body Found Rotting for 3 Years in SC Funeral Home…How it Happened is Disgraceful
Five months ago, Fred Parker Jr. got a call he never imagined. He was told that his late wife Mary Alice Pitts Moore's body was found locked in an unrefrigerated...
Death Podcast Launches with Unfiltered Episode About the Modern State of Death Care
Every industry has their niche micro-culture of enthusiasts, researches, and theorists... but death care seems to be an exception. There are only a handful of explorers of death touching on the industry,...