What kills us, in one chart
(Chart via The New England Journal of Medicine) Taking the long view, the New England Journal of Medicine looked back over a century to see how the causes of death in...
Funeral Industry News
Leading Associations Team Up to Present 2015 Cremation Symposium
Save up to $200 by registering before January 9, 2015! Brookfield, Wis. – The Cremation Association of North America (CANA) and the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) have...
Wilbert Funeral Services Dedicates Miller Family Park
BROADVIEW, IL – Wilbert Funeral Services, Inc., (WFSI) dedicated a park on its grounds to members of a family that has combined for more than 100 years of service to...
What Your Funeral Home Competitor Hopes You’ll Never Discover: The Ultimate Do-It-Yourself Funeral Home Marketing Strategy
Local funeral homes just got their wakeup call: Funeral Futurist Robin Heppell launches his best training program to date: The go-to reference and resource for marketing and advertising...
Being Trapped in Snow ‘Felt like being buried in a casket’
Engulfed in snow, stranded motorist ‘felt like I was underground, buried in a casket’ At one point during her 13-hour ordeal, Karen Rossi got out a pen and...
Photographer Documents What Happens to Our Body After Death
For About Dying, Denmark-based photographer Cathrine Ertmann chronicles the enigmatical journey of the deceased from death until burial. While keeping her subjects’ identities anonymous, she records the stages of death, including...
Leading Associations Team Up to Present 2015 Cremation Symposium
Save up to $200 by registering before January 9, 2015 Brookfield, Wis. – The Cremation Association of North America (CANA) and the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) have again...