Mortality Salience: How Death Makes Life Better
Awareness of death, or “mortality salience,” has been shown in not a few instances to increase one’s sense of the value and fleeting quality of life. Not always,...
Funeral Industry News
Coffin Cocaine & Christmas Easter Eggs | 4M #170
Welcome to the hundred-and-seventieth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #170, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
2025 “Death Rocks!” Calendar Offers Daily Levity in Death Care Life
Working in the death care profession is both rewarding and emotionally challenging. Funeral professionals face the weight of helping families through some of their hardest moments while grappling...
North Carolina Funeral Directors Association Endorses Homesteaders as Exclusive Preneed Provider
West Des Moines, Iowa — Homesteaders Life Company, a national leader in preneed funeral funding, has been selected as the exclusively endorsed preneed provider by the North Carolina Funeral Directors Association...
Dedicated Funeral Home Support Service Launched at National Guardian Life Insurance Company
Madison, Wis. (December 5, 2024) – Committed to providing the best experience for our partners and customers, National Guardian Life Insurance Company (NGL) has announced the implementation of its...
Archaeologists May Have Found Jolly Old St. Nick’s Final Resting Place — and It’s Not at the North Pole
Let’s start out with an admission: Yes, of course we know Santa Claus is real. He wears a red suit and visits all the good boys and girls...
Mickey’s Mortuary & Funeral Felons | 4M #169
Welcome to the hundred-and-sixty-ninth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #169, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...