Awesome Ideas From Some of NFDA’s Best of the Best Funeral Homes
Every year, multiple funeral homes submit essays to the National Funeral Directors Association in the hopes of being one of up to 10 recipients of the organization’s Best...
Good Luck Caskets & Misguided Motives | 4M #198
Welcome to the hundred-and-ninety-eighth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #198, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
With These Sketchy Solutions, No Wonder Early Americans Didn’t Embalm Their Dead
While the practice of embalming stretches back to the ancient Egyptians, Americans didn’t begin embalming their dead until the Civil War, and then it was only for the...
These High-Profile Funerals Can Help You Illustrate the Power of Preplanning
Everyone knows that preplanning a funeral is the best way to ensure your personal preferences are honored at your funeral, right? Wrong. Big time. During last month’s 2025...
Funeral Cruises & Comedy Cameos | 4M #197
Welcome to the hundred-and-ninety-seventh edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #197, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
10 Powerful Insights & Ideas from the 2025 Funeral (Un)Conference Marketing Experts
Just in case you missed Day Two of DISRUPT Media’s Funeral (Un)Conference in June — and didn’t click to watch the FREE recordings (SMH) — here is some...
Library of Congress Releases COVID-19 Recollections: Interviews with 19 Deathcare Professionals
On July 2, the American Folklife Center at the U.S. Library of Congress released “Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from Last Responders,” a series of videos documenting the...
CREAM-ated Remains & Real(ly Frustrated) Housewives | 4M #196
Welcome to the hundred-and-ninety-sixth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #196, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
A Review of HBO’s The Mortician: The Good, The Bad, and The Unimaginable
(The views in this piece are my own personal opinions and observations and do not necessarily represent those of Connecting Directors or the good people behind it.) When...
One Cemetery’s Wild Ride from $1 Million “Zillow Gone Wild” Listing to $1 Sale to Green Burial Organization
Talk about a real estate bargain! It’s not everyday that a seller accepts a buyer’s offer of one-millionth of the asking price, but that’s exactly what happened recently...