By Eleanor Cummins This summer, Alex Clements will once again make his way from the densely-wooded state of Kentucky to [...]

By Danny Lawhon The educational requirements to become a licensed funeral director and embalmer in Iowa haven't changed in more than 60 [...]

By Mackenzie Martin The death care industry has undergone a lot of changes in recent years and it’s more than [...]

By John D. Rich, Jr., Ph.D. "Merry Christmas!" everyone said. "Is it?" I grumbled. I was very sick on that [...]

By Tara Lovdahl As individuals, communities and businesses continue to shift their priorities to become more ecologically responsible, some opportunities [...]

By Kevin Ryan When her business mentor, Tracey Kaufman, died in 2015 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, Adelle Archer wanted to honor [...]

By Melissa Martin, Ph.D. cWhether her death was unexpected or expected, the hole appears. Myriad tears cannot fill the hole. [...]

By Tanya Sweeney The day after her mother Antoinette’s funeral in 2010, Carol McGowan and her siblings went to visit [...]

By Hayley Campbell THE RESOMATOR STANDS monolithic in the corner of a room on the ground floor of a building at [...]

By Patrick Murphy New owners, same name. Gass Haney Funeral Home of Columbus recently purchased Humphrey’s Duesman Funeral Chapel and [...]

By Mark Zaborney Generations return to the funeral homes serving Toledo’s African-American community for the measure of solace their forebears [...]

To some people, ashes are sacred, the physical embodiment of our inextinguishable spirits. Others think of them, at best, as [...]