50-Year-Old Grudges & $12 Million Funerals | 4M #55
Welcome to the fifty-fifth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #55, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
Deathcare Abroad
5 Quick Questions (and Answers) About Queen Elizabeth’s Coffin
For 11 somber days, the world watched as the United Kingdom prepared to bury its Queen. From September 8, 2022 — the day Queen Elizabeth II died —...
Death Care Artisans: Centuries of Intergenerational Craftsmanship
New generations of artisans are keeping traditional rituals alive, protecting old ways of honoring the dead in ways and reflecting the culture in its current forms. Gift-giving, Afterlife-style...
Funerals Continue in Ukraine Amid Fighting, But Russian Soldiers Aren’t So Lucky
It’s difficult to watch the ongoing, unprovoked devastation in Ukraine, but at the same time, Americans are glued to our television sets, anxiously awaiting the next news report....
Modern-Day Human Sacrifice: Cult Leader Dead, Funeral Home Warned
Occasionally the world of deathcare calls on the pros to handle the aftermath of some extraordinarily nasty pieces of work: John Wayne Gacy, BTK, and Ian Brady &...
Day of the Dead: Todos Somos Calaveras (“We Are All Skeletons”)
Every year around this time, they start showing up. The elaborate skulls are instantly recognizable: gaping black eyeholes, mouth sliced ear to ear, maybe stitched back together; festooned...
International Death Toll: Black Death, Spanish Flu, and COVID-19
The challenge to deal with excessive death on a practical level has been met before. You’d expect that humanity, having weathered the Black Plague and Spanish Flu, would...