With an industry as old and fundamentally unchanged as deathcare, innovation and disruption are inevitable. UK artist Gina Czarnecki is one of those innovators. Inspired by her love...
It’s not news that cremation is steadily edging out burial as the preferred method of disposition in the United States. The National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) predicts that...
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"...
Over the last year, Berardinelli Funeral Home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been making a shift in their product showroom (now a "gallery") to something unique in...
Originally Published on The Gazette When a funeral director is viscerally disturbed by the odor of embalming fluid, you know something is off. That's what happened to Jon...
Article originally published by: Bloomberg As cemeteries turn into landfills, Americans are turning to less destructive ways to bury the dead. Dan Lavin doesn’t know when, or under...
Two Italian designers are bringing a new meaning to "family tree." Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel proposed a plan to make cemeteries more eco-friendly by replacing headstones with trees. It's...