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...
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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...
Get Ready, Cemeteries: ‘Tis the Season for Necrotourists
One might assume that most cemeterians eventually develop a love/hate relationship with visitors. For example, family and friends are always welcome to stop by a loved one’s resting...
Necropolis 4.0 and Tree Pods: A Design Professor Imagines the Future of Urban Deathscapes
The global population is growing, more people are dying, and despite rising cremation rates, conventional burials are still consuming land and other natural resources. What’s a densely populated...
Weird Ways That Cemeteries & Caskets Made News on Election Day
As this election season seems to have been one of the oddest in American history, it might not be a surprise that last week, several cemeteries and a...
Dealing with Cemetery Disinterment and Displacement after a Natural Disaster
In the weeks since Hurricane Helene dumped a deluge of rain on the already-saturated Southeast, thousands of heartbreaking videos of the aftermath have hit YouTube. One of these...
#GraveTok Is Bringing People to Cemeteries For Much More than Memorializing
Cemeterians … bless your hearts. You already have to deal with so many issues that are totally unrelated to your duties to the dead, from wild animals roaming...