Jeffrey Butya was something of a local celebrity in the Robinson Township community of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Described in a February 12, 2025 tribute as a “local bar and...
Welcome to the two-hundredth (🎉!) edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #200, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush...
More and more families are choosing direct cremation for a variety of reasons, but simplicity, affordability, and flexibility certainly top the list. It’s estimated that about 40% of...
For many, the news of the death of legendary wrestling personality Hulk Hogan on Thursday, July 24 confirmed a long-held superstition: celebrity deaths occur in threes. Hogan’s shocking...
Welcome to the hundred-and-ninety-ninth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #199, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
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...
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...
It’s been just over a year since Australians Nick Kelly and Ben Sutton introduced their modernized funeral tribute platform, Eulogize, to U.S. deathcare professionals. As they’ve made the...
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...
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...