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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...