Here’s the Only Excuse You Need to Have a Cocktail
With all you have to do and feel as a death care professional, you need no excuse for the occasional glass of wine or sip of bourbon. And,...
How Monkeying Around with Cocktails Became an Addictive Quarantine Escape
Do you remember where you were when the world shut down in mid-March? Deathcare attorney Poul Lemasters does. Anticipating pending quarantine measures, Poul and his wife Shelby decided...
IOHO: NFDA 2020 Was a Virtual Success!
While it’s true that in a normal year, most of us would have loved to have spent the past week connecting with colleagues in the Big Easy, the...
Deathcare Controversies Brew Across the Globe
The American deathcare profession has had our share of bad press these past 12 months, with COVID bodies spilling over into unrefrigerated trucks and babies’ bodies being discovered...
Reincarnated: The Second Lives of Shuttered Funeral Homes
Does your October horror movie lineup include the 2002 horror movie “A Haunting in Connecticut?” (Because it’s perfectly acceptable to binge watch scary movies in October.) In this...
“Third Means of Disposition:” Spade’s Recompose Has First Two Competitors
It was late in 2018 when Connecting Directors first covered the concept of recomposition and innovator Katrina Spade’s efforts to legalize it as an ecological alternative to burial...
9 Ways Funerals are Becoming More Like Weddings
After eight months of hardcore planning and preparation, my son’s wedding is finally behind me. If you’ve ever been through this yourself or with one of your children,...
Fascinating Places Cremains Have Been Lost … and Found
One of the many reasons people prefer cremation is the portability of cremains. Families travel and move more often than ever before, and many want to take their...
Actors, Athletes, and Alt-Rockers Who Worked in Deathcare
Our recent story about baseball legend Andre Dawson’s second career as a funeral home owner got us thinking: Have other famous people been drawn to deathcare? We found...
Which Funeral Home Is REALLY The Oldest in America?
I love history. And I love the folks in the death care industry. Naturally, when I spotted the words “America’s Oldest Funeral Home” I wanted to know more...