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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....