Davide Pisanu: The Hidden Costs of Death are Hurting Us All
Estate settlement may cost about $16 billion CAD annually and is so unnecessarily complex that it’s bad for our health Davide Pisanu, CEO, ClearEstateSpecial to Financial Post Original...
Funeral Industry News
So Many Tools to Trick Out Your Tombstone
Cremation rates may be rising rapidly, but that doesn’t mean traditional burial plots will be obsolete anytime soon. In 2018, cartographer Joshua Stevens created a map showing that...
Objectionable Obits & a North Korean No-No | 4M #43
Welcome to the forty-third edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #43, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
A Few Laughs For The Summer | FFFW #94
We made it to the weekend after the Holiday weekend. This is the weekend where you spend the whole time either saying “Can you believe the 4th was...
Henrietta Smith Bowers Duterte Paved The Way for All Women
When Henrietta Duterte lost her husband Francis, a coffin builder, undertaker, and business owner, to consumption in 1858, she inadvertently became the country’s first African American woman mortician. ...
Cremation Trends And Statistics for Your Business
WHEELING, IL— It’s old news now that cremation is the preferred disposition for the majority of Americans. In fact, the 2021 Milestone Report from the Cremation Association of...
BURMEISTER APPOINTED HOMESTEADERS LIFE COMPANY VICE PRESIDENT-MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
West Des Moines, Iowa — Lyndon Peterson, Executive VP-Sales and Marketing for Homesteaders Life Company, today announced the promotion of Danielle Burmeister to Vice President-Marketing & Communications. “Over...