Keep Your Cemetery From Becoming a Crime Scene
Thanks to Connecting Directors contributing author Eric Pereira for this story. We’d like to think of cemeteries as safe sanctuaries where families can mourn and remember their loved...
2020 Celebrity Deaths: Privacy Prevailed
Customarily, funerals and memorial services for deceased celebrities are star-studded, widely-publicized, and well-photographed events. Last year, though, was different — as you well know. The pandemic changed memorialization...
Coasson: Preserving Tradition in a New and Modern Way
If you attended the 2019 NFDA Convention and Expo in Chicago, chances are you noticed the Coasson. It’s hard not to. This sleek pull-behind innovation attracts attention in...
Advocating For 1A Vaccine Priority for Funeral Workers: “You Name It, We’ve Tried It”
The message from our recent Connecting Directors COVID Vaccine Priority Survey is loud and clear: The deathcare profession is not being consistently treated with the urgency and understanding...
“Priorities Are A Little Screwed Up”: Results of Our COVID Vaccination Survey
On Monday, January 11, we asked you to tell us how your state or community was handling COVID-19 vaccinations — specifically, what priority was assigned to deathcare professionals....
Ohio Latest State to Pass Fetal Remains Disposition Law
As 2020 drew to a close, Ohio Governor Mark DeWine signed a bill that requires fetal remains from surgical abortions to be cremated or buried. The measure clarified...
COVID-19 Vaccination Survey: Are You Getting Phase 1A Priority Treatment?
Deathcare advocacy organizations, including the National Funeral Directors Associations (NFDA) and the International Cemetery, Cremation & Funeral Association (ICCFA), have fought since last summer to put funeral workers...
Charbonneau Prevails! A Huge Win for Alkaline Hydrolysis in Canada
It’s been a long, difficult, and expensive four years for Ontario funeral director Trevor Charbonneau. In 2017, Charbonneau was simply a funeral home owner looking to offer widely-used...
5 New Year’s Resolutions for Deathcare Professionals
Do you make personal resolutions at the dawn of every new year? Lose weight, spend less, yadda, yadda, yadda. The goal of a resolution is to improve yourself...
The 10 Top Stories of 2020
2020 was a year we don’t really want to remember, but unfortunately can never forget. We certainly had a lot of deathcare-related news to share here at Connecting...