I can only imagine the craziness of Forest Lawn Cemetery since the death of Michael Jackson, but charging visitors for leaving gifts? With the cremation rate rapidly rising I guess Forest Lawn is grabbing the “bull by the horns” and carving out a whole new revenue stream. From JumpOff.tv: It’s gonna cost Michael Jackson fans [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cemtery’
29 Mar
Largest Independent Cremation Company Launches an Ad Campaign in USA Today
It has happened…a funeral industry company is finally doing a nationwide advertising campaign directed at the public. For the first time ever, the country’s largest independent cremation company has launched an ad campaign in USA Today with the tagline: “Think outside the wooden box!”(Link to Full Print Ad) The Neptune Society, taking advantage of the [...]
19 Mar
What Are Cemeteries Thinking? (Photo)
Walmart, Costco, and Amazon have taken the plunge into the funeral industry by selling urns and caskets. Luckily, they aren’t selling burial vaults, yet, but I am sure with time they will give that a go as well. The burial vault is the one thing that funeral homes have always had a strong hold on [...]
18 Mar
New “Green” Laws Raise Price of Cremation in UK, Could US Be Next?
NEW “green” laws look set to push up the cost of a cremation in Scarborough to more than £500. The extra cost is needed to deal with the environmental pollution caused when a body is cremated, according to a new report. Scarborough Council bosses want to introduce the £50 charge for all adult cremations at [...]
16 Mar
Death At Home, Bureaucratic Nightmare
As a doctor at a cancer hospital, I’m often asked about death—not the spiritual side of it, but the practical. Specifically, people ask me if it is better to die in a hospital or at home. Until recently I had always voted for death at home, given its promise of relative serenity. I still think [...]
23 Feb
A Nightmare Service…That A Funeral Director Makes Right – Video
Zanesville, Ohio, where ConnectingDirectors.com is located has received over 30 inches of snow in the past few weeks making graveside services a nightmare. As many of you know, besides running ConnectingDirectors.com, I work for my family’s burial vault company (primarily in Sales, but when needed I help out on services). With all of the crazy [...]
14 Jan
GPS Replacing Headstones?
For the first time in 70 years, the City of Calgary has a new strategy for the city’s soon-to-be-full cemeteries: green burials and GPS locators for finding the dead. Four of Calgary’s five municipal cemeteries are full, and officials estimate the Queen’s Park burial lands, which opened in 1940, will run out of space within [...]
12 Jan
Study Suggests too Many Bodies at Chicago Cemetery?
CHICAGO — Thousands more people may be buried at a historic black cemetery in a Chicago suburb than the land is supposed to hold, according to a study obtained Monday by The Associated Press. The Cook County Sheriff’s Police study suggests that the practice of stacking caskets on top of each other or simply discarding [...]
10 Jan
Relatives Find Grave Open, Part of Body Visible
NEW ORLEANS — Mary Marsh and her family walked through Holt Cemetery, grief and anger visible on their faces. When they arrived at her sister’s grave, they pulled back a piece of metal they placed there Wednesday that covered the hole in the grave that left part of her sister’s body exposed. “I have never [...]
23 Nov
Japan’s New Hi-Tech ‘Graveyards’
It is a problem faced by everyone in the end or by their relatives left behind – finding a place to spend eternity. And in Japan, a crowded mountainous country with a fast-ageing society, there is a shortage of final resting places, especially in the big cities. Burial plots in Tokyo can cost more than [...]
