Yoga at the graveyard
Do yoga, leave a beautiful corpse, I say. And now you can work on corpse pose at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, which, if you haven?t noticed, has rebranded itself...
Funeral Industry News
Kennedy Funeral Arrangements Set
The official tributes and funeral services for Senator Edward M. Kennedy will begin Thursday afternoon, when his body is carried by motorcade from the family compound in Hyannis...
More forgo clergy-led funerals for those by secular ‘celebrants’
When Kenneth Kistner, 85, died in February, his wife, Carmen, didn't call any clergy. At the Detroit memorial service for the Marine veteran and retired educator, Kistner's family...
Local Business Offers Do-it-Yourself Casket Kit
ROCK HILL, S.C. -- When he saw the $12,900 bill for a relative's funeral last year, Merritt Eggleston saw an opportunity. Several months later, he has launched a...
Funerals on The Cheap?
O'FALLON, ILL -- A veteran of the mortuary business plans to open a new funeral home that he said will lay to rest people's fears about the high...
Chelsea Handler Plans Her Own Funeral
Since my favorite late night talk show host, Jay Leno, is not on anymore I have begun to watch Chelsea Lately, hosted by the hilarious Chelsea Handler. A...
Funeral Home Mix-Up: Pa. Family Mourns Wrong Body
PHILADELPHIA ? The blue suit and black boots were right, but mourners at a retired trucker's funeral suspected they were gazing at the wrong man. Some friends and...