While the practice of embalming stretches back to the ancient Egyptians, Americans didn’t begin embalming their dead until the Civil War, and then it was only for the...
Everyone knows that preplanning a funeral is the best way to ensure your personal preferences are honored at your funeral, right? Wrong. Big time. During last month’s 2025...
Welcome to the hundred-and-ninety-seventh edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #197, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
Just in case you missed Day Two of DISRUPT Media’s Funeral (Un)Conference in June — and didn’t click to watch the FREE recordings (SMH) — here is some...
On July 2, the American Folklife Center at the U.S. Library of Congress released “Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from Last Responders,” a series of videos documenting the...
Welcome to the hundred-and-ninety-sixth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #196, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
(The views in this piece are my own personal opinions and observations and do not necessarily represent those of Connecting Directors or the good people behind it.) When...
Talk about a real estate bargain! It’s not everyday that a seller accepts a buyer’s offer of one-millionth of the asking price, but that’s exactly what happened recently...
Welcome to the hundred-and-ninety-fifth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #195, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
This summer, two cultural disruptors—Liquid Death and WhistlePig—have teamed up to drop one of the boldest spirit collaborations yet: GraveStock Wheat Whiskey. It’s a whiskey that dares to...