$76 Coffins & Stewpot Urns | 4M #168
Welcome to the hundred-and-sixty-eighth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #168, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
VA Offering Green Burial Pilot Programs at Three National Cemeteries
A pilot program by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will soon allow for green burials in newly designated sections of three of its national cemeteries. In...
Return to Nature’s Jon and Carie Hallford in Jail After Both Plead Guilty to Committing Horrific Crimes
As part of a plea agreement, Jon and Carie Hallford, the former owners of Colorado green burial funeral home Return to Nature, pleaded guilty on November 22 in...
Immersive Cremations & Cemetery Scrooges | 4M #167
Welcome to the hundred-and-sixty-seventh edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #167, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
Another Funeral Home Scandal in Georgia? Maybe … But Maybe Not
Less than a month after 18 bodies were found in various states of decomposition in a Douglas, Georgia funeral home, another discovery of human remains within the state...
Dubious Inheritances & Regulatory Ruckus | 4M #166
Welcome to the hundred-and-sixty-sixth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #166, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
Make These 2025 Hiring & Retention Trends Work for Your Funeral Home
Year after year, respondents to the Connecting Directors Deathcare Survey rank hiring and keeping the right employees as one of their biggest challenges. Industry supporters are working hard...
Why “Cremation or Burial?” Should NEVER Be Your First (or Second, or Third) Question for Families
If you were to ask a few random strangers what they want for their funerals, what do you think they’d say? They probably won’t answer with their ideal...
Embattled Texas Body Donation Program Is Now In Even More Hot Water
A few months ago, NBC News exposed the highly-questionable practices of the Willed Body Program at the University of North Texas (UNT) Health Science Center (HSC) in Fort...
Secret Santas & Coffin Experiences | 4M #165
Welcome to the hundred-and-sixty-fifth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #165, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...