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,...
Cremation
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...
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...
4 UK Funeral Ads Banned for “widespread offense” Amidst Government Investigation into Pricing
The British online funeral planning website Beyond recently had 4 advertisements bound for the UK subway system banned by Transport for London. The playful ads parodied pop-culter ad-styles like those for...
Learn How Passages International Paved an Unexpected Green Path in Funeral Care
Passages International founded by Darren Crouch has paved an unexpected environmentally-conscious path in the change-averse funeral industry. The company began almost 20 years ago, in 1999, before the term "Global Warming"...