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Cannibal Chefs & Beach Dogs | 4M #125
Welcome to the hundred-and-twenty-fifth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #125, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
Update: NFDA Submits Letter to the Editor to Wall Street Journal and Encourages You to Do the Same
On Monday, NFDA shared information about a disappointing article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal titled “How the Funeral Industry Got the FTC to Hide Bad Actors.”...
Precoa honors employees with 2023 Values Awards
PORTLAND, Ore. – Precoa, a national leader in preneed sales and marketing whose purpose is enriching life through meaningful connection, recently honored employees who actively demonstrate their mission...
Tech Revolution in Death Care: Unraveling the Data Chaos – Funeral Nation Ep. 264
On Funeral Nation Episode 264, hosts Ryan Thogmartin and Jeff "The Funeral Commander" Harbeson are joined by Curtis Funk from Tukios, a special co-host and tech expert. They...
Cold Water’s Effects on Decomposition, Part 2: Victims of the Titanic (Seawater) vs. The Edmund Fitzgerald (Freshwater)
A recent Connecting Directors article discussed how Lake Superior’s victims rarely emerge from her frigid depths. The freshwater Great Lake is notorious for “disappearing” her dead: in the...
Selected Educational Trust Announces Change to Second-Career Scholarship Program
LINCOLNSHIRE, IL — February 6, 2024 — The Selected Educational Trust has announced that, going forward, it will remove the full-time enrollment requirement from its application requirements for...