Book Review: Speaking of the Dead
Speaking Of The Dead is an innovative book that portrays the lives of morticians in an autobiographical fashion through short [...]
Confessions of a Funeral Director Book Review & Millennial Morticians
If you haven’t yet read funeral director Caleb Wilde’s book, Confessions of A Funeral Director: How the Business of Death [...]
Funeral Industry Trends & Insights
Johnson Consulting Group (JCG) continues to collect data through their Performance TrackerTM program, and will continue to share it with [...]
Book Review: The New York Times Book of the Dead
You know you’ve arrived – and departed – when your life is chronicled in a news obituary in The New [...]
Business Book Review | KICKING THE BUCKET LIST: 100 Downsizing and Organizing Things to Do Before You Die
This book’s title and subtitle, while lengthy, says it all: KICKING THE BUCKET LIST: 100 Downsizing and Organizing Things to [...]
Morgue: A Life in Death | By Dr. Vincent DiMaio & Ron Franscell
People are fascinated by TV crime investigation dramas CSI and NCIS. I've visited our local Office of the Medical Investigator [...]
Book Review|Bobby Wonderful: An Imperfect Son Buries His Parents
Bobby Wonderful: An Imperfect Son Buries His Parents by Bob Morris illuminates the emotional roller coaster Baby Boomers face as [...]
Featured Reading | Having the Last Say: Capturing Your Legacy in One Small Story
Having the Last Say: Capturing Your Legacy in One Small Story By: Alan Gelb Reviewed by Gail Rubin If you were [...]
Featured Reading: On Grief & Grieving
On Grief & Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David [...]
Educating the Families You Serve About the “WHY” of the Funeral: A Guide for Funeral Home Staff
In his new funeral service training workbook entitled Educating the Families You Serve About the “WHY” of the Funeral: A [...]
The Soul Sitter’s Handbook
If a family member has the presence of mind to work with a funeral home to make plans before a [...]
Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid
The squirrel in the lavender casket was the first thing I noticed about the cover of Over Our Dead Bodies: [...]