Long Covid: Deathcare Version
Every industry has been affected by the pandemic, but few have been more greatly influenced by Covid’s arrival than deathcare. Changes run deep and alter the course of...
COVID-19
International Death Toll: Black Death, Spanish Flu, and COVID-19
The challenge to deal with excessive death on a practical level has been met before. You’d expect that humanity, having weathered the Black Plague and Spanish Flu, would...
International Death Count: Impact of COVID on Caring for the Dead in All Corners of the Globe
In densely-populated countries with high COVID mortality rates – for example, India, Mexico, and Brazil – eventually it all comes down to the numbers. Sheer volume becomes the...
What Deathcare Can Learn from the 1918 Flu Pandemic and Excess Death
Professionals across the deathcare space have been on the front lines of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic and have witnessed firsthand the incredible and tragic amount of excess death...
NFDA’s Lesley Witter Gives Us the Facts of Finalized FEMA Funeral Assistance
Ryan Thogmartin and Jeff Harbeson recently welcomed very special guest Lesley Witter to Funeral Nation to elaborate on the recently-finalized Funeral Assistance program offered by the Federal Emergency...
It’s Been a Year, Now We Need HAWKS! | FFFW #28
IT’S BEEN A WHOLE YEAR Remember back when the world decided to take a two week pause to stop the spread of COVID-19? Well, the past twelve months...
How Living with Ashes Prepared 20 Million People for Social Distancing
A version of this article originally appeared in the July 2020 issue of American Cemetery and Cremation, published by Kates-Boylston Publications, and is being shared with permission. Throughout...