Do More People Die During a Full Moon?
The full moon gets blamed for all kinds of nonsense: spates of weirdness or bad luck, general craziness, psychosis. Busy emergency rooms. Increased fatalities. Freak accidents. People are...
Funeral Industry News
Loop Biotech’s Mushroom Caskets and Pet Urns Take Root in Deathcare
For a few months this summer, millions of people from across the United States were reading about the burial of Maine resident Mark C. Ancker. It wasn’t because...
Matthew Kreidenweis Named New Homesteaders Account Executive
West Des Moines, Iowa — Homesteaders Life Company Senior VP-Strategic Markets Will Bischoff is pleased to announce that Matthew Kreidenweis has joined Homesteaders’ industry-leading team of account executives. ...
Stolen Cars & Cremation Cops | 4M #215
Welcome to the two-hundred-and-fifteenth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #215, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
Foundation Partners Group Invests in the Future of Deathcare
ORLANDO, Fla. (November 18, 2025) Nearly 100 Worsham College of Mortuary Science students gathered with the Foundation Partners Group team at Ultimate Canine’s Pause for Paws booth to thank...
ICCFA Leadership Summit 2025 Empowers Deathcare Professionals to “Reimagine, Reinvent, Redefine”
STERLING, Va. (November 17, 2025) – The International Cemetery, Cremation & Funeral Association (ICCFA) concluded its 2025 Leadership Summit in Knoxville, Tennessee, where deathcare leaders gathered to explore...
Flying Farewells: Cremation Air Brings Innovation and Dignity to Aerial Ash Scatterings
When you think of cremated remains scattering from an airplane, you might imagine a cinematic, peaceful moment—a graceful release into the sky. But for most people, that romantic...