We’re excited to announce that Connecting Directors has partnered with Lemasters Consulting to bring our readers the latest issue of Parliament! Click to Download Parliament Poul Lemasters, Esq., a...
Beginning February 2020, bereaved families in Australia’s New South Wales will be able to see and compare pricing for funeral home goods and services. Much like the United...
New rules finalized in late August by Vermont legislators will eliminate the requirement of an associate’s degree to become a licensed funeral director. Instead, students can become licensed...
Picture it. It’s a beautiful spring day. Blue skies overhead, lush green grass under your feet, and the scent of fresh flowers perfumes the air. You spread a...
I’ll admit, when I started writing for Connecting Directors in 2018, I had no idea how many death conferences existed. Or what they entailed. Or what to expect. ...
When was the last time a new cemetery opened up in your community? For most of us, it wasn’t within our lifetimes. In Douglas County, Colorado it was...
The Here in the South, food and funerals go together like red beans and rice or biscuits and gravy. We show up on the doorstep, casserole (or two)...
HBO’s latest documentary film, “Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America,” premiered Wednesday, August 14. According to HBO, the goal of directors and producers Matthew O’Neill...
Forbes contributor Randy Gleckman recently posed the idea that Americans are “working too hard for a good death.” He even speculated that our increasing efforts to have the...
In our first three posts in this series, we’ve explored the purpose and content of ethical wills, or legacy letters, and reviewed some examples of letters written by...