When the police department in Gulfport, Miss., recently ended long funeral processions by limiting them to five vehicles, the news was not well-received by some residents, who saw it as killing a cherished tradition. “We could either limit the number of vehicles, or not do (funeral escorts) at all,” explained Lt. Brian Smith, head of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Funeral News’
23 Mar
Embalming a Dying Profession in Australia
They deal with death every day, allowing mourners to view the bodies of loved ones as they looked in life. Embalmers perform a key role in Australia’s funeral industry, making bodies presentable for viewing and preserving and sanitising them for movement across state and international borders, or for entombment in a mausoleum. But the profession [...]
19 Mar
Spooked Grads Flee Death-Industry Jobs
CHINA – ONLY 100 out of 3,000 college students who applied for funeral industry jobs last year are staying in the field, just eight months after enthusiastically starting their jobs last year. The students left for a range of reasons, including strong family opposition or better-paid jobs elsewhere. Those who stayed did so because of [...]
18 Mar
OPINION SHAPER: Why Does a Funeral Draw so Many While an Actual Life Draws So Few?
I was sent a link to this article through Twiiter (@ryanthogmartin). After reading it I thought it was a great article and poses a question many of us have asked before. I would love to get your opinion as well, so please share below in the comments. Someone dear to us died last year. She [...]
27 Jan
The Funeral Industry Is Changing, Please Listen to The Customer
I recently read a book by Gary Vaynerchuk called “Crush It“. The book is about how Gary was able to use social media to drive his families Wine business from a $3.0 Mil business to over a $70.0 Mil operation in just 7 years. Gary tells how he used his passion and social media to [...]
18 Jan
First Funerals Take Place in Haiti – Horrific Video
The earthquake that struck Haiti last week totally devastated the country. Families are left homeless and dead bodies are lining the streets, as families have become separated. There are lines outside the cemeteries as families wait to find a final resting place for their loved ones. The following CNN video is of reporter Anderson Cooper [...]
31 Dec
Grieving Family Discovers Wrong Body in Casket After Relative is Mistakenly Cremated
A grieving family learned their 95-year-old great-grandmother had been cremated when they found a stranger’s body in her casket, and a Connecticut funeral home is being investigated in the incident. Relatives of Aurelie Tuccillo noticed the wrong body when they arrived at the Buckmiller Brothers Funeral Home in Prospect for calling hours Tuesday night. Police [...]
1 Dec
What Happens to Your Email After You Die?
IN a digital world your deepest secrets no longer die with you. Andrew Ramadge reports on what happens to your private emails when you pass away. REMEMBER that time you poured your heart out in an email to your best friend after one too many glasses of wine? Or that sexy message from an old [...]
20 Nov
UK Casket Companies Encouraged to Increase Production Due to H1N1?
The funeral industry believes the number of coffins being made could be increased by 150 per cent were more Britons to fall victim to the pandemic. Most recent figures show there have been 142 deaths linked to the H1N1 virus in England, with an estimated 53,000 new cases in the past week week and 783 [...]
16 Nov
Burial Incidents Prompt Army Probe of Arlington Cemetery
The Army ordered an investigation Friday into operations at Arlington National Cemetery after questions about apparently improper burials. Army Secretary John McHugh said in a statement that the service’s inspector general will look into what he said was “lost accountability” of some graves, as well as poor record-keeping and other issues at the cemetery, the [...]
