A Brief History of Headstones
It’s that time of year! “Graveyards” are popping up in neighborhoods and front yards all across this great land: tombstones askew, phalanges and femurs poking up through the...
Funeral Industry News
Magician Morticians & Green Blood | 4M #57
Welcome to the fifty-seventh edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #57, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
OGR Foundation opens scholarship applications Oct. 15
$10k total is available for this year’s recipients INDIANAPOLIS (Oct. 14, 2022) – The Order of the Golden Rule Foundation’s board of directors is excited to open the...
Your Future Client, Planning Her Own Funeral Party
I’ve been writing on deathcare matters from a layperson’s perspective for a while now. I’ve delved into graphic, unsavory aspects including trauma and decomposition and the actual biological...
Miscarriage and Death Care Part Two: Unique Needs of Families
Circumstances – social and psychological – being what they are, handling matters for families who are navigating loss of this sort may place new demands on deathcare professionals....
When Communications Cause Conflict
WHEELING, IL—Added stress was identified as the most significant consequence of poor work communication by The Economist in 2018. Even worse, time pressures were listed among the top...
Miscarriages and Death Care Part One: Practical Matters
26% of all pregnancies will end in miscarriage. In the US alone, that’s at least 500,000 naturally lost pregnancies every year. A lot of parents experience such lost...