Funeral Planning Assistance is a New Perk at Workplaces
Companies don't roll out new employee benefits in recessions. But one exception to that rule can be found in some employer-provided group life insurance plans this year.Employees at...
Funeral Industry Getting a Reality TV Show?
No your eyes did not fool you, the title of this post is correct. The funeral industry is going to be getting its own reality TV show and...
Funeral Director Operated a Decade with No License
As the family of the late Ada Young searches for answers, public records show that Willie B. Hardy, the funeral home administrator who left Young's body in a...
Woman Claims She Was Exposed To Smoke From Crematory
A woman is claiming she suffers from smoke inhalation - smoke from a funeral home burning bodies next to her former work. Now, the State Health Department is...
Minnesota Priest Runs Nonprofit Funeral Service
The Rev. Claudia Windal of Minneapolis believes everyone, regardless of ability to pay, deserves a dignified burial. So the Episcopal priest became a mortician to help make it...
Guest Post – Boomers Causing Funeral Industry to Reinvent Itself
After delivering a marketing seminar last week to a group of funeral directors, the owner of one funeral home approached me to set me straight: "You wouldn't know...
What is Happening With OGR? Why Are They Moving?
The following is a letter from OGR President Koven Brown that was emailed to me annoucing big changes that are taking place in their organization. I am not...
UK Teenager Opens Own Funeral Home
Four Oaks teenager has become one of the youngest funeral directors in the country to set up his own business. Edward Cutler, 19, a former Arthur Terry student,...
EternalSpace.com, What Led To The Crumble Of The First Virtual Graveside?
The termination of EternalSpace.com came as a surprise to merely everyone in the industry, one day there supposedly going strong, the next day the homepage is now an...
Bag Of Human Organs Leads To Arrest Of Funeral Director
A funeral director in Haines City was arrested and charged Monday after officers say he dumped raw human waste for commercial purposes. Claude Edward Holmes, Jr., 47, was...