Dystopic Black Mirror Episode Offers the Ultimate Grief Relief Product
The Black Mirror Netflix series is a brilliant bunch of stand-alone dramas that are reminiscent of the Twilight Zone series of the 1960’s. Each Black Mirror episode is...
Glimpse Inside This Imagined Funeral Home of the Future
It’s wild to think that the first iPhone was released just 11 years ago and quickly changed how we communicate, interact with the world, how we spend our...
22 Remarkable Things to Do With Ashes to Honor Your Loved One
Over the last decade, we’ve watched cremation become the preferred funeral option in the United States and with it a desire for personalized memorials has become stronger. It...
Korea Exhibition Showcases 218 Remarkable Urns in Contemporary Art
Every two years the Korea Ceramic Foundation holds a themed art biennale and this year’s exhibition was titled Narrative, Ode to Life featuring cremation urns from around the...
4 Products Beating the Funeral Merchandise Quality Epidemic
Since entering the funeral industry, I have felt a taboo around talking about the topic of quality in relation to funeral merchandise - it’s a problem. In fact,...
2 Business Visionaries Explain How to Sell Memorial Products
Last week, I got an unbelievable opportunity to speak with two modern business thought leaders about selling memorial products - a topic rarely (maybe never...) discussed by silicon...
DJ Khaled’s New Hit Song is a Major Milestone for Cremation
The problem with cremation is that it’s difficult to see it as romantic. Burial has ritual - ritual is romantic. It also has pristine crafted wood caskets, elegant...
Death Care’s $2.6B Industry That Grows 6.6% Annually
The IBIS World Report 2017 released this spring echoed the reports of other industry studies showing growth across the cremation industry. Enjoy some of the most compelling data...
San Francisco Agreed to Exhume 150,000 Bodies in 1914. Why it Happened is Fascinating.
Just 10 miles south of San Francisco is a small town called Colma which is home to 1,600 living residents and 1.5 million dead ones. Colma’s land is...
Livestreaming Has Opened a Giant Golden Door for Funeral Homes
Social Networks and how we interact with them evolve rapidly and the newest trends are perfect for the death care industry. The driving force behind these developing opportunities...