“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...
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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...
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...
Cash, Check, Credit, or Crypto? Meet the Only Funeral Service in North America Accepting Bitcoin.
Verlin Stoll sighs when he’s asked about Bitcoin. As the co-founder of Crescent Tide Funeral and Cremation Services in St. Paul, Minnesota, Stoll is among a handful of...
Learn the 2 Best Adhesives to Seal Ceramic Urns FOREVER
When I entered the funeral industry a few years back as a product manufacturer with an art education I took note of an odd question that funeral directors repeatedly asked...