Last week’s $250,000 settlement may have closed Aimee Stephens’ landmark transgender case, but it marked the implementation of sweeping reforms across the employment landscape. And to think it...
Every so often you hear of a product that seems too good to be true. It’s innovative and highly functional. It solves more than one of your persistent...
Extreme embalming — the practice of posing the deceased in positions and places other than prone in a coffin — isn’t new. However, it hasn’t really caught on...
Black smoke billowing against a blue sky will inevitably spark questions, calls, and the ever-present speculative social media posts. Most people simply want to sate their curiosity, and...
The rising popularity of cremation has brought with it an interesting conundrum: unclaimed remains. With traditional burial, disposition of individuals with no family or funds is managed and...
It’s been a part of the business of funeral directing since 1984, hasn’t changed much since then, and it isn’t going away anytime soon. “It” is the Funeral...
Just six weeks after placing Tribute Technology on the auction block, Providence Equity Partners has reportedly sold the funeral home software company for more than $1 billion. According...
Bloomberg Law reports that Park Lawn Corporation, the largest publicly-traded Canadian-owned funeral, cremation, and cemetery provider, has filed a lawsuit against PlotBox, a UK-based cemetery software startup, alleging...
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,...
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...