I Used to Want to Donate my Corpse to Science
True story. I’d gone so far as to request the appropriate papers from my alma mater, a big midwestern teaching university, to find out how to leave my...
Funeral Industry News
Homesteaders Heroes Program Honors Outstanding Employees
West Des Moines, Iowa — Homesteaders Life Company, a national leader in preneed funeral funding, has announced the recipients of its annual Homesteaders Heroes awards. The peer-nominated awards...
This Holiday Season Reignite the Art of Thank You Cards
Thank you to Dr. Davana Pilczuk of The Human Performance Group for this article. Dr. Pilczuk is an award-winning kinesiologist who specializes in human performance. She is a speaker, writer...
Otter Cuteness & Prisoners in Peril | 4M #11
Welcome to the eleventh edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations in the...
SHOULD HEARSES HAVE ANTLERS? | FFFW #62
NOTE: I’m writing this early because I normally write it on Thursdays, and well, this Thursday was Thanksgiving. So, if any world-changing events have occurred in the past...
Finding Gratitude in Grief
Deathcare can be heavy work. As funeral professionals our day to day often consists of sharing in and holding space for the grief of the families that we...
Bass-Mollett Publishers Announces Launch of Everlasting Keepsakes
GREENVILLE, IL – Bass-Mollett Publishers is pleased to announce the launch of Everlasting Keepsakes, its new service to help funeral homes compete with online retailers and provide a...