Coffin Academy on Nightline, Simulate Your Own Death
I'm all good with pre-planning your own funeral, but this is going to the extreme: Remember Coffin Academy, the self-help retreat in South Korea that lets you simulate...
Funeral Industry News
The Crowded Casket, More Than Dead Being Buried In Casket
We CAN take it with us? Since the beginning of burials, man has often gone to the grave with company. These days, funeral directors grant most requests: a...
Spooked Grads Flee Death-Industry Jobs
CHINA - ONLY 100 out of 3,000 college students who applied for funeral industry jobs last year are staying in the field, just eight months after enthusiastically starting...
OPINION SHAPER: Why Does a Funeral Draw so Many While an Actual Life Draws So Few?
I was sent a link to this article through Twiiter (@ryanthogmartin). After reading it I thought it was a great article and poses a question many of us...
Many NYC Funeral Homes Deny Consumers Pricing Information, Fined Big Time
A two-month long investigation of the sales practices of New York City funeral homes finds may of them are playing fast and loose with city regulations. Department of...
New “Green” Laws Raise Price of Cremation in UK, Could US Be Next?
NEW "green" laws look set to push up the cost of a cremation in Scarborough to more than (more…)
James Brown Corpse Stolen? Funeral Director Puts Rumor to Rest
A ?Super Bad? Internet rumor is playing ?I Got You? with the British tabloids, which claimed yesterday that the corpse of soul superstar James Brown was stolen, but...