A Project to Turn Corpses Into Compost
Cullowhee, N.C. — The body of the tiny 78-year-old woman, gray hair falling over stiffened shoulders, was brought to a hillside at Western Carolina University still clad in...
Outshine Competitors and Boost Business Operations
Dan Isard, founder and president of The Foresight Companies, will be sharing 10 big changes that can transform your funeral home at the Tenth Annual Funeral Service Business...
YourDash Receives a “Keeping It Personal” Award
YourDash from Dallas, Texas, has won first place in the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association’s 2014 Keeping It Personal (KIP) Awards, recognizing the best in personalization in...
What Do You Do: I’m a fourth-generation funeral director
A funeral director tells us about growing up in a funeral home, postmortem cosmetics, and "wowing" families at funerals, as part of Hopes&Fears' anonymous interview series. Article By...
Mom Died And All I Got Her Was This Lousy Newspaper Obit
Article by Keith Stride, Memorial Post Once upon a time obituaries were straight-up journalism. Papers would cover the life and times of locals who were recently downgraded from...
China urges cremation of dead to save land, environment
A woman walks down a stairway between tombstones in a cemetery ahead of the Ching Ming festival in Hong Kong on April 3, 2015. China urged its citizens...
Forethought unveils interactive tool to help funeral homes analyze sales and increase productivity
Forethought InSightSM provides funeral homes access to visual data in real time Batesville, IN — Forethought Life Insurance Company (Forethought), a subsidiary of Global Atlantic Financial Group Limited, is...
The ICCFA Convention Exhibit Floor in 51 Seconds
Couldn't make it to the ICCFA convention? Here is a very quick hyperlapse tour of the exhibit hall!
You Know You’re a Funeral Director When…..
We went to our facebook page and asked 6,600 funeral directors to fill in the blank of this sentence: 'You know you're a funeral director when ___________'. For...
New York City’s Medical Examiners Office Screwed Up Royally And Now Everyone Knows It
Employees at the city Medical Examiner’s Office “intentionally destroyed” documents to cover up the fact that it allowed the wrong corpse to be released for cremation and burial,...