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Today's question comes not from a reader but from personal experience: Should children attend a funeral or memorial service? I'm...

The howling-wolf T-shirt phenomenon it is not. Walmart Stores (WMT) has closed the lid on customer reviews of its caskets....

In my capacity as manager at our cemetery?s tiny Jewish section I, and my voluntarily-working-overtime operations guy, was present for...

Being in this industry we all have heard stories of very very strange deaths. Below is a list of very...

RIO DE JANEIRO ? A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up...

Kentucky - A search warrant unsealed late this afternoon reveals why Kentucky State Police searched Woodford County coroner James Steve...

DEL MAR ? The end came quickly for Lillian Steinberg, an artist, pilot, world traveler and stay-at-home mom who spent...

Appleton, Wisconsin - On television and in movies funeral directors are portrayed as tall and pale, bland and boring individuals...

Last week Tuesday, October 27, William C. Wappner, CFSP, was elected president of the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA). Wappner,...

AT a funeral directors? convention recently, I wandered around an exhibition floor crowded with the usual accouterments of the trade...