Funeral Homes Feel Economy?s Bite
DANVILLE ? Grief and a ?Payment Due? notice are the only real inescapable parts of death and taxes. Area funeral directors say the troubled economy has customers reassessing...
State Warns Consumers of Prepaid Funeral Scams
Five years after Florence Muto prepaid for a funeral in 2004, the 92-year-old from Westland is out the $6,000 she paid for the plan. Muto was part of...
Just 21, This Funeral Director is ‘In it For Life’
Just 18 years old in 2006, Mr Nicky Teo Chin Li coordinated his first funeral. It was a day he will always remember. 'The deceased had died suddenly...
Cemetery Uprooted To Make Way For Shopping Center
Chattanooga, TN - Dozens of graves are uprooted to make way for a retail shopping center. We started receiving phone calls from viewers several weeks ago about a...
What Happens to Your Email After You Die?
This article is not directly funeral related but it is a question that could get asked to the funeral director at some point. You yourself my be wondering...
Family Sues After Body Falls Out of Casket
Robert Gowdy may have died May 2, 2008, but memory of his burial lives on. While the Mesa native's passing from congestive heart failure surely came as a...
SCI Settles Antitrust Lawsuit Over Palm Mortuary Purchase
A Texas company has agreed to sell some of its Las Vegas funeral home operations to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed by the state over its purchase of...
Walmart Maybe Can’t Sell Caskets in Georgia, Maybe Other States
At the Atlanta Casket Store on Glenwood Road, owner Wyatt Washington surveys the shifting landscape of the funeral industry since Walmart got into the online casket and funeral...
Basketball Star Shaquille O’Neal Pays for Funeral of Murdered North Carolina Girl
Basketball star Shaquille O'Neal paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl because he was moved by the tragic story of her kidnapping and murder. More...
Hillenbrand Sees Higher Profit, Lower Revenues in 4Q
The growing popularity of cremation affected Hillenbrand Inc.?s fourth-quarter and full-year revenues, but the company posted a year-over-year profit. The funeral services company reported fourth-quarter net income of...