Funeral Home Owner Charged In Cemetery Shooting Death at 10-Year-Old’s Funeral
The owner of a Maryland funeral service company has been arrested for the shooting death of a pallbearer who was reportedly affiliated with a rival funeral home. The...
Laws & Regulations
Nevada Becomes Seventh State to Legalize Natural Organic Reduction
On May 30, Nevada governor Joe Lombardo quietly signed Assembly Bill 289 into law, making his state the latest to legalize disposition by natural organic reduction (NOR). Appropriately,...
ICCFA’s Government & Legal Committee Resumes Annual Trip to Capitol Hill
STERLING, VA (April 26, 2023) – The International Cemetery, Cremation, and Funeral Association’s Government and Legal Committee returned to Capitol Hill on March 21-23, 2023, after a few...
Hess and Koch Sentenced for Sunset Mesa Atrocities
The two owners of the now-infamous Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors in Montrose, Colorado received their respective prison sentences on Tuesday, January 3, 2023, and for some victims of...
New York Becomes Sixth State to Legalize Natural Organic Reduction
Whatever you call it — natural organic reduction (NOR), recomposition, human composting, or Terramation™ — there’s no denying that the process of transforming human remains into soil is...
FTC Extends Public Comment Period on Potential Funeral Rule Changes to January 17, 2023
The Federal Trade Commission has voted to extend the public comment period for its advanced notice of proposed rulemaking on changes to the Funeral Rule to January 17,...