Cremation
Over the weekend we noticed this article from the Perryville News of Perryville, Missouri. It concerns an issue that we are seeing more and more of as funeral homes and other concerns attempt to place new crematories in areas that they have not been located in before. That issue centers around the public perception of…
Read MoreOur funeral home firm embarked on building a new physical funeral home with a first ever, for us, crematory included in 2005. It’s hard to believe that we have been headquartered there for 15 years as I remember things such as pointing out what trees we wanted to save on the bare lot. Some of…
Read MoreAlkaline hydrolysis as a means of final disposition keeps growing in legality in states across the United States. Recomposition, the act of human composting becomes legal in the State of Washington this year, and now it is probable that the State of Kansas will see a bill introduced into its legislature to legalize “promession” as…
Read MoreWe will start off our December writings going to the subject of cremation. Over the long holiday weekend we noticed a couple of articles that we found interesting. We will bring you some information from Greece and a couple of cremation products that have their origin in Japan. As you know, from this article that…
Read MoreNational Geographic magazine published an article the other day that you can read here. It was published in their “Environment and Conservation” sector and is entitled, “The environmental toll of cremating the dead“. The article makes the statement that 78% of Brits are now cremated and in America, we have surpassed the number of burials…
Read MoreNine years ago, the Ballard-Sunder Funeral & Cremation business had a protracted discussion with community residents about allowing the first crematory in the city of Jordan, Minnesota, to open. Back then citizens filed lawsuits against the city and state that in effect said that zoning rulings for “funeral home” and “crematories” were not identical uses.…
Read More“A little late to the game” or, maybe, “better late than never.” You can pick the phrase and either of those two will be applicable to the this news that we read in the Greek Reporter earlier this week. That news is, that after being legalized for use 13 years ago in the country, the…
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