The message from our recent Connecting Directors COVID Vaccine Priority Survey is loud and clear: The deathcare profession is not being consistently treated with the urgency and understanding...
On Monday, January 11, we asked you to tell us how your state or community was handling COVID-19 vaccinations — specifically, what priority was assigned to deathcare professionals....
As 2020 drew to a close, Ohio Governor Mark DeWine signed a bill that requires fetal remains from surgical abortions to be cremated or buried. The measure clarified...
Deathcare advocacy organizations, including the National Funeral Directors Associations (NFDA) and the International Cemetery, Cremation & Funeral Association (ICCFA), have fought since last summer to put funeral workers...
It’s been a long, difficult, and expensive four years for Ontario funeral director Trevor Charbonneau. In 2017, Charbonneau was simply a funeral home owner looking to offer widely-used...
Do you make personal resolutions at the dawn of every new year? Lose weight, spend less, yadda, yadda, yadda. The goal of a resolution is to improve yourself...
2020 was a year we don’t really want to remember, but unfortunately can never forget. We certainly had a lot of deathcare-related news to share here at Connecting...
No matter how you choose to describe 2020 — challenging, unprecedented, s&*^show — it’s been hard for everyone. We’re all hoping the holiday season will provide a well-deserved...
Every funeral home, crematory, and cemetery owner and manager knows that getting involved in the communities they serve is not only a valuable marketing tool — it’s just...
Last week’s $250,000 settlement may have closed Aimee Stephens’ landmark transgender case, but it marked the implementation of sweeping reforms across the employment landscape. And to think it...