This year the death care industry has been inundated with innovative variations on the basic urn. We’ve recently written about several of these on Connecting Directors, including Wilbert’s...
If Missouri Senator Jason Holsman has his way, he’ll be cremated atop an open-air outdoor pyre worthy of a Jedi master or Darth Vader’s cybernetic armor. In April...
As a funeral director, how often do you hear families say, “If only I had known…” or “I wish I had thought to ask…?” So often the death...
When it came time to say a final farewell to the world’s longest-reigning king, the people of Thailand spared no expense. After a year of mourning, months of...
“She looks so lifelike!” As a funeral director, how often do you hear this phrase as friends and family file past an open casket? Of course, you should...
The generation who brought us the Summer of Love, Woodstock, and the Manson family are now in their seventies and eighties. Many are making final arrangements for when...
In case you haven’t been notified, we’re in the midst of a War On Death. Those who are leading the charge are known by different names — anti-death...
What do you do when you find your mother in her kitchen, chisel in hand, desperately trying to break off a chunk of your deceased father’s solidified eight-year-old...
President Abraham Lincoln packed a lot of accomplishments into his four short years in office. He ended the Civil War, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, established a national banking...
It’s an equation that just doesn’t add up for China’s death care industry: a growing population + longer life spans + limited land = a columbarium conundrum. With...