Are We Sacrificing Cemeteries for AI?
No matter what your opinion on artificial intelligence, you can’t deny that it’s being leveraged by more and more people for a growing variety of personal and professional...
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Old Cemeteries Are Presenting Some New and Complicated Problems
As a student of local history and an avid genealogist, I have a “thing” for cemeteries. I love to find them, visit them, and learn the stories of...
CemeteryVision.com Launches to Deliver News, Insights and Best Practices for Cemetery Professionals
New digital platform expands FuneralVision.com’s mission with a dedicated focus on cemetery operations, innovation and leadership CemeteryVision.com, a new digital media platform dedicated to serving cemetery professionals, has...
A Tale of Two Plots (and Four Bodies)
Every deathcare professional understands that even the slightest error in any part of the disposition process — even a misspelled name on an inconsequential form — can tamper...
Medieval Funeral Directors, Hellmouths, and Churchyards
Before cemeteries had gates and grave liners, the dead were protected from hell itself. This was necessary because Medieval Europeans believed that hell’s many front doors were literally...
New Video Resource Available for Cemeteries and Funeral Homes to Promote the Importance of Permanent Memorialization
STERLING, Va. (October 13, 2025) - The International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association’s Educational Foundation and Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) have partnered to produce a powerful new video...
11 Ways Cemeteries Are Keeping Criminals From Stealing Vases for Scrap Metal
Last week, authorities in Council Bluffs, Iowa arrested four members of an eight-person theft ring accused of stealing more than 1,000 bronze vases from gravesites in the Omaha,...