Death & Grief: It’s All Just Harder During the Holidays
Deathcare professionals know better than most that the holiday season isn’t just a time for being keenly aware of the loved ones who are no longer joining us...
Funeral Industry News
Terrybear’s Impressive Eco-Friendly Initiative Is Inspired by Core Values
Picture, if you will, a shipping container. Typically, these containers are large enough to hold a couple of Volkswagens, 2,000+ bankers’ boxes, or the footprint of a small...
Russian Cats & Christmastime Kudos | 4M #118
Welcome to the hundred-and-eighteenth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #118, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
Homesteaders Honors Exceptional Employees
West Des Moines, Iowa — Homesteaders Life Company, a national leader in preneed funeral funding, recently announced the winners of its annual Homesteaders Heroes program. The peer-nominated awards ...
Grief Is Not a Disorder: My Position on the New “Prolonged Grief Disorder” Diagnostic Category in the DSM
Connecting Directors would like to thank Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. for this outstanding contribution. Our phone at the Center for Loss and Life Transition has been ringing off the...
New Vatican Proclamation on Cremains Opens Up Options for Catholic Families
On Tuesday, December 12, the Vatican announced important changes to its instructions regarding the handling of human cremains. The update allows “a minimal part of the ashes” to...
How Doctors Treat Complex Grief, Part 2: Medication
In our previous article, we discussed information which might be useful to have available to provide to families and prospective clients on some of the common forms grief...