There’s a Reason Most Removal Calls Come Outside Business Hours
Some of the biggest concerns of a new removal tech — in addition to worries about squatting and bending in their suit, how to operate the stretcher, and...
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Funeral Songs & Apart-Hotels | 4M #203
Welcome to the two-hundred-and-third edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #203, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
Buried Before Death: The History Behind a Cultural Nightmare
Gruesome tales go back centuries—exhumed coffins with bloodied scratch marks, mangled fingers, even corpses found entirely outside their caskets. It sounds almost too horrible to be believed. Has...
Inspection Reveals 20 Decomposing Bodies in Colorado Coroner’s Hidden Room
Less than two years after nearly 200 decomposing bodies were found in a Penrose, Colorado funeral home, state inspectors have discovered a heartbreakingly similar situation in a facility...
Tribute Spotlights Take Your Obituaries Where They’ve Never Gone Before
This week’s announcement from Tribute Technology and Chptr was more than just a press release — it signaled a truly historic shift in the way today’s deathcare professionals...
What Deathcare Can Learn from the Tragic Discovery in an Alabama Funeral Home Hearse
On the morning of Saturday, August 9, 2025, staff at West Gadsden Funeral Home in Gadsden, Alabama returned from a call and noticed what first appeared to be...
Who’s Watching Over Deathcare Workers? Meet the Patron Saints of the Profession
Every job has its heroes. Doctors look up to Hippocrates, firefighters honor St. Florian, and bakers have St. Honoré keeping watch. But did you know that deathcare professionals...