Obit: A Beautiful, Free, All-in-One Platform You Can’t Afford Not to Try
Obit, Brant Fischer’s passion project come to fruition, is a clean, modern platform with a deceptively simple interface that supports...
Extremely Embalmed Murder Victim On Parade a First for Trinidad & Tobago
A three-year-old funeral home in Trinidad & Tobago resurrected extreme embalming last week, introducing it to an intrigued new audience...
Where There’s Smoke, There’s … A COVID-Related Crematory Controversy
Black smoke pouring out of crematoriums is disturbing neighbors, especially when they (mistakenly) think they're breathing deceased COVID patients.
A “Useful Corpse”: Body of Shady Bigamist Used to Promote Funeral Home in 1902
When no one could prove the identity of a dapper stranger who died penniless in an Asheville, North Carolina boarding...
NFDA & FTC Tackle The Funeral Rule at 2020 Convention
The Funeral Rule is now as ingrained in the profession as death itself. But it's far less than perfect. So...
Going Once, Twice … Tribute Technology Sold to Carlyle Group and Vista Equity
Just six weeks after placing Tribute Technology on the auction block, Providence Equity Partners has reportedly sold the funeral home...
Park Lawn Says Ex-CEO Clark Stole Their Cemetery Software Secrets
Bloomberg Law reports that Park Lawn Corporation, the largest publicly-traded Canadian-owned funeral, cremation, and cemetery provider, has filed a lawsuit...
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...
How Monkeying Around with Cocktails Became an Addictive Quarantine Escape
How did you spend your time in quarantine? Deathcare attorney Poul Lemasters probably had the best, most intoxicating solution to...
IOHO: NFDA 2020 Was a Virtual Success!
Perhaps that’s the biggest takeaway from NFDA 2020 — in a world where people are spending more time in front...
