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...
How to Flex Your Event Planning Skills to Please Families in 2026
It's no secret that families are now spending less on traditional merchandise and are instead focusing more on experiences that feel personal, meaningful, and reflective of the person...
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....
Hydrogen Cremators: The Dutch Are Picking Up Where the UK Left Off
There’s a reason no one wants a crematorium in their neighborhood — and it’s not (always) because they don’t want a reminder of their mortality so close to...