Diary of My First Death Conference
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. ...
Potlucks and Yoga: Seven Stones Cemetery Is More About Living Than Dying
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...
New Jersey is One of the Last States to Lift Ban on Food in Funeral Homes
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)...
Alternate Endings Documentary is About Decisions and Determination, Not Dollars
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...
Can You Help Clients Achieve a Good Death?
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...
Ethical Wills Part Four: Adding Legacy Letters to Your Preneed Offerings
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...
Efforts to Battle Body Broker Side Gigs and Sketchy Donations Continue
Last year Connecting Directors reported the FBI raid of Colorado’s Sunset Mesa Funeral Home. According to Reuters, the funeral home’s owner, Megan Hess, ran a side business as...
Coffin Clubs: “Makers of Fine, Affordable, Underground Furniture”
Oh, those Kiwis. First, they gave us explorer Sir Edmund Hillary, country singer Keith Urban and actor Russel Crowe. Now, they’ve started a trend that’s not only captured...
Ethical Wills Part Three: Examples of Ethical Wills
In this ongoing series, we’ve learned about the origins of ethical wills and what you might include in one. Also called “forever letters,” and “legacy letters,” ethical wills...
Death Stocks Are Dying: Is Cremation the Only Culprit?
You’ve all heard the cliches — we’re all going to die, death and taxes are the only certainties, etc. It’s this line of thinking that recently prompted a...