Are We Sacrificing Cemeteries for AI?
No matter what your opinion on artificial intelligence, you can’t deny that it’s being leveraged by more and more people for a growing variety of personal and professional...
Graveside Ganja & Bizarre Displays | 4M #252
Welcome to the two-hundred-and-fifty-second edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #252, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
Three Cities, Three Scandals: Funeral Homes Facing Felonies, Eviction, or Lawsuits
Depending on how you look at it, the news coming out of these three cities represents either good news for deathcare or a terrible, horrible, no good, very...
Old Cemeteries Are Presenting Some New and Complicated Problems
As a student of local history and an avid genealogist, I have a “thing” for cemeteries. I love to find them, visit them, and learn the stories of...
Cousin Algernon & Deathcare Heroes | 4M #251
Welcome to the two-hundred-and-fifty-first edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #251, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
Manicures and Mortality? There’s No Wrong Place to Hold a Death Cafe
What is the “perfect” place to talk about death? The funeral home? A family’s living room? If the growing popularity of death cafes has taught deathcare professionals anything,...
Catholic Diocese Issues Warning About “Irregular” Funeral Practices
Since lifting its centuries-old ban on cremation in 1963, the Catholic Church has slowly and, perhaps, reluctantly loosened its restrictions on other secular funeral practices, most of which...
Chicken Wings & Monumental Puzzles | 4M 250
Happy 250th!! How appropriate that the 250th edition of Connecting Directors’ Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup (or “4M” to our friends) comes while we’re all still basking in the...
John Cena’s Reflections on Mortality Are a Masterclass in Grief Literacy
Despite his iconic “You can’t see me” gimmick, recently-retired WWE wrestling superstar John Cena seems to be appearing everywhere, from garbage bag commercials to the big screen. But...
Antonio Green’s FuneralBot.AI Fills in the Gaps and Does What You Don’t Love to Do
Our friend Antonio Green is not one to rest on his laurels. While he serves families as a fourth-generation funeral director and general manager of James H. Cole...