NY’s Green-Wood Cemetery Announces Plans to Offer NOR in 2027
Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery — a 478-acre landscape of rolling hills, monumental stones, and nearly two centuries of New York City history — has announced plans to add...
Not Again: 13 Decomposing Bodies Discovered in Unlicensed New York Funeral Home
It’s happened again. Authorities have found 13 bodies in various states of decomposition in a supposedly-shuttered funeral home run by a funeral director with a revoked license. Court...
Pig Pickins & Odd Laws | 4M #227
Welcome to the two-hundred-and-twenty-seventh edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #227, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
Measuring What Matters: The Case for Pounds, Not Cases, as the Cremation Metric
For decades, deathcare has relied on a deceptively simple metric to make some crucial cremator equipment decisions: cases. How many cases a year do you run? How many...
The Memorial Shift That Delivered $1M for Funeral Homes in 2025
In deathcare, innovation only matters if it serves families and also supports the long-term health of the organization. Parting Stone has built its reputation on both. By offering...
Graveside Grace & Oversight Overhauls | 4M #226
Welcome to the two-hundred-and-twenty-sixth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #226, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
One Last Meal for Their Last Mile
Last week a video of a hearse pulling through a McDonald’s drive-thru in Australia went viral because a casket with a full floral blanket (and thus assumed to...
Trials & Fire | 4M #225
Welcome to the two-hundred-and-twenty-fifth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #225, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
Clair Obscur: When a Video Game Speaks the Language of Grief
For a number of reasons, conversations about grief have increasingly moved beyond funeral homes, therapy couches, and church pews. They’re happening in cafes, bars, films, novels — and...
China’s Funeral Regs Update Aims to “Curb Excessive Charges”
The next time a stranger complains to you about the outrageous cost of funerals these days, just tell them they’d better be glad they don’t live in China....