Solidified Remains Technology Wins ICCFA KIP Award
The International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association (ICCFA) has awarded its First Place KIP award in the "Most Innovative" category to the death tech startup Parting Stone for...
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Parting Stone Develops New, Solidified Form of Human Remains
For inventor and entrepreneur Justin Crowe, Parting Stone, a revolutionary service that transforms cremated ashes into solidified remains, is a passion project — a true labor of love....
Missouri’s “Jedi Bill” Paves the Way for Open-Air Cremations
If Missouri Senator Jason Holsman has his way, he’ll be cremated atop an open-air outdoor pyre worthy of a Jedi master or Darth Vader’s cybernetic armor. In April...
2 Former Nike Executives are Taking Digital Death Care to the Next Level
It’s not everyday that a death care provider is featured in AdWeek, a publication which is to the marketing elite what The Wall Street Journal is to, well,...
SCI Firm Settles for $12MM in Lost Cremains Case After Family Takes 4 Years to Claim Them
A woman in Mobile, Alabama was awarded a $12 million settlement after a funeral home lost her mother’s cremated remains. A civil jury found Pine Crest Funeral Home...
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 research letter in the prestigious Journal of the...
Learn How The Institute for Canine Forensics is Sniffing Out The Past
This unique team of specially trained canines show their handlers where the bodies are buried. If it weren’t for Adela Morris’ “nosy” dog Cholla, the Institute for Canine...