Alabama’s State Mortuary Operations Response Team Helps Out in Latest Disaster
Tornadoes are commonplace here in Alabama. Since 2008 we’ve averaged 60 tornadoes each year--that’s up significantly from the 50-year average...
Cremation of Radioactive Cancer Patient is a Cautionary Tale for Directors
Articles in medical journals don’t often make the news. But within hours of the February 26, 2019 release of a...
Should You Show Up Baked at the Wake?
In an archived Reddit thread entitled “Today, I was high at my gramma’s funeral,” a Redditer confesses to delivering a...
Fenicetek Urns do Double Duty as Death Vessels and Sculpture
Italy has produced some of the most brilliant artists and artwork in the history of the world; the Italian Renaissance...
See a Rare Visualization of Grief in the Art of Jennifer Rodgers
People deal with the loss of a loved one in a myriad of ways. Some throw themselves into physical activity,...
Koffin Challenges Tradition with Affordable, Eco-friendly, Oval-shaped Burial Vessels
With an industry as old and fundamentally unchanged as deathcare, innovation and disruption are inevitable. UK artist Gina Czarnecki is...
UK Consumer Watchdog Group Reports on Probe Into Inflated Funeral Costs
The funeral industry in the United Kingdom has had a pretty tough year.
These Cremains-sniffing Dogs Help Desperate Forest Fire Victims Reunite with Lost Ashes
It was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California, and the world’s costliest natural disaster of 2018. The Camp...
