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Registration is open for the preeminent gathering for women in funeral service: the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) Professional Women’s...

In 1936, Thelma Wing of Reno, Nevada asked the Wyoming secretary of state’s office for help in finding her father,...

Although such cases are relatively rare, funeral professionals have some training in identifying and reporting questionable trauma on the bodies...

The International Order of the Golden Rule (OGR), the world’s leading professional association dedicated to serving independent funeral homes, is...

We’ll all readily admit that as a region, Southerners can be pretty set in our ways. Trends take a little...

Efforts to communicate with the dead is a phenomenon first documented in the Bible with the Witch of Endor, who...

When someone mentions the name “Ted Williams,” it isn’t his phenomenal performance on the baseball field that first comes to...

If you think laughing at a funeral is totally inappropriate, you probably shouldn't read Laurie Kilmartin's book Dead People Suck.