New CANA Study Reveals Increase in Cremation Rates
Thanks to Connecting Directors contributor Eric Pereira for this important update! This year has changed a lot for the foreseeable future, including cremation growth, according to the Cremation...
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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...
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....
“My Mom Was Chiseling My Dad’s Solidified Ashes” and Other Cremains Conundrums
What do you do when you find your mother in her kitchen, chisel in hand, desperately trying to break off a chunk of your deceased father’s solidified eight-year-old...
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...
Finecetek Urns do Double Duty as Death Vessels and Sculpture
Italy has produced some of the most brilliant artists and artwork in the history of the world; the Italian Renaissance solidified Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, and Raphael as...