Historic Cemeteries, Modern Opportunities
CANA Convention Highlights Cremation Memorialization with Mount Auburn’s Regina Harrison As it has steadily become the most popular form of disposition in the US and Canada, cremation has...
Funeral Industry News
Necropolis 4.0 and Tree Pods: A Design Professor Imagines the Future of Urban Deathscapes
The global population is growing, more people are dying, and despite rising cremation rates, conventional burials are still consuming land and other natural resources. What’s a densely populated...
Selected Independent Funeral Homes Lets the Good Times Roll at 107th Annual Meeting in New Orleans
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. – June 17, 2025 – The world’s leading independent funeral service professionals will gather in New Orleans, LA for Selected Independent Funeral Homes’ 107th Annual Meeting at The Ritz-Carlton on...
Two TikToks & Ghana Ganga | 4M #193
Welcome to the hundred-and-ninety-third edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #193, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
Passare Launches New Feature: Whiteboards
ABILENE, TX - June 13, 2025 - Passare is excited to announce a new Whiteboard feature for customers. Funeral professionals can now organize their case listing with color-coding,...
Are You Creating or Killing Customer Loyalty?
Culture and Customer Loyalty Keynote Joan Fox at CANA’s 107th Convention WHEELING, IL— The last 25 years of funeral service have brought unpredictable and incalculable changes to this...
Starmark® Cremation Products Acquires Chateau Urns
RICHMOND, IN, June 12, 2025 – Starmark, the cremation solutions leader, has announced the acquisition of Chateau Urns in Port St. Lucie, Florida. The addition of the Chateau...