Burial Is Becoming The Most Boring Thing To Do With Your Dead Body
By Eleanor Cummins This summer, Alex Clements will once again make his way from the densely-wooded state of Kentucky to [...]
Iowa Is Considering Some Of The Country’s Toughest Standards On Morticians. Some Funeral Directors Aren’t Happy.
By Danny Lawhon The educational requirements to become a licensed funeral director and embalmer in Iowa haven't changed in more than 60 [...]
Green Funerals And The Changing Role Of A Funeral Director
By Mackenzie Martin The death care industry has undergone a lot of changes in recent years and it’s more than [...]
Grieving Loss And Embracing The Future
By John D. Rich, Jr., Ph.D. "Merry Christmas!" everyone said. "Is it?" I grumbled. I was very sick on that [...]
Back To The Earth With Green Burials
By Tara Lovdahl As individuals, communities and businesses continue to shift their priorities to become more ecologically responsible, some opportunities [...]
This Entrepreneur Lost Her Beloved Mentor. So She Started a Company That Turns Ashes Into $7,000 Diamonds
By Kevin Ryan When her business mentor, Tracey Kaufman, died in 2015 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, Adelle Archer wanted to honor [...]
The Heart Hole From A Mother’s Death
By Melissa Martin, Ph.D. cWhether her death was unexpected or expected, the hole appears. Myriad tears cannot fill the hole. [...]
I Wanted To Create A Headstone For My Parents That Was Timeless And Beautiful
By Tanya Sweeney The day after her mother Antoinette’s funeral in 2010, Carol McGowan and her siblings went to visit [...]
A New Way to Dispose of Corpses—With Chemistry!
By Hayley Campbell THE RESOMATOR STANDS monolithic in the corner of a room on the ground floor of a building at [...]
New Owners, More Options at Duesman Funeral Home
By Patrick Murphy New owners, same name. Gass Haney Funeral Home of Columbus recently purchased Humphrey’s Duesman Funeral Chapel and [...]
Local Funeral Homes Serve As Beacons For Toledo’s Black Community
By Mark Zaborney Generations return to the funeral homes serving Toledo’s African-American community for the measure of solace their forebears [...]
Jennifer Finney Boylan: What do our ashes really mean to us?
To some people, ashes are sacred, the physical embodiment of our inextinguishable spirits. Others think of them, at best, as [...]