NFDA to Host its First-ever Cremation Retreat in 2016
Brookfield, Wis. – Funeral professionals should make plans to attend a new, one-of-a-kind event that will enable them to escape the daily grind and gather ideas for making...
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Scattering Ashes: What You Need to Know
Article originally appeared on Qeepr Cremation rates in North America are skyrocketing. Before the 20th century, no one was cremated; an act that was seriously frowned upon by the...
How Hospice Inspired The Business Model For A Cremation Company
By Vinnie Faccinto, Senior VP of Operations and Business Development for Smart Cremation. It wasn’t that long ago that people who had terminal illnesses were taken out of...
New York City’s Medical Examiners Office Screwed Up Royally And Now Everyone Knows It
Employees at the city Medical Examiner’s Office “intentionally destroyed” documents to cover up the fact that it allowed the wrong corpse to be released for cremation and burial,...
Scott Gilligan Offers DNA Collection Article For Funeral Homes
As an attorney specializing in death care issues for the past 30 years, I have seen cremation authorization forms grow from a one paragraph form with a simple...
Eickhof’s new Ossuarium Blends Tradition with Present-Day Disposition in a Modern Way
One of the biggest reasons cremated remains are abandoned, scattered or forgotten about by family members or loved ones is the indecision with what to do with the...
How NOT To Scatter Ashes From a Hang Glider
In November, 2009, over the Thanksgiving weekend, tragedy struck the OhioFliers hang gliding and paragliding club. One of our members, Chris, was killed when the glider he was...