Legislative Updates

California Governor Jerry Brown just signed a bill into law that legalizes the right of dying people to voluntarily end...

Medicare announced plans this month to reimburse doctors for talking with patients about what treatments they want — and don’t...

On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court put into law a monumental change: same-sex marriage is legal. What does...

Imagine the remains of your dearly departed loved one being flushed down the drain. That’s the grisly image Rep. Dick...

When members of the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) are in Washington, D.C., next week, they will urge their elected...

Directors Advantage, Inc., the owner and operator of Cremation.com, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking a court order disabling and...

The wood coffin that held the body of Lee Harvey Oswald belongs to his brother and not a Fort Worth...

House Bill 2122 sponsored by Delegate George Ambler, R-Greenbrier, would make photographing a corpse a fineable offense unless it was...

These recommendations give guidance on the safe handling of human remains that may contain Ebola virus and are for use...

Question/Answer - As a survivor of viral hemorrhagic fever myself, I would like to know why no one seems to...