Today, the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) issued a new and groundbreaking report on ventilation in the preparation room, along with practical, cost-effective recommendations for removing formaldehyde vapors...
The flier that arrived in Carol Rognstad's mailbox sounded like a great deal. For only $38 a month, she could prepay for her future cremation. The 48-year-old, who...
Yes, you read the headline correctly. There's an event that happened on Saturday night called The Six Feet Under Club, in which couples can opt to be buried...
The National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) is partnering with Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, to distribute When Families Grieve, a bilingual (English and Spanish) multimedia...
A bill allowing parents of fallen soldiers to be buried with their children in any of the 131 national veterans' cemeteries was passed this week by both houses...
Effective in March 2010, the Illinois General Assembly enacted the Cemetery Oversight Act (COA) for protection of Illinois consumers. This act requires the development of a statewide database...
Last December we reported that Batesville Casket Company (parent company Hillenbrand) bought the Goria Burial Vault company. We also reported in July that Batesville ran job ads on...