Cemetery
We bring you this article from the Longview (TX) News Journal that deals with the clean up of two cemeteries in the city. The cemeteries are both owned by Service Corporation International and the news article deals with some families dismay that they believe that they were not properly notified of the clean up. According…
Read MoreLast year the state of Washington became the first in the nation to legalize human disposition by human composting or recomposition, as it has been termed. That law allows the process starting on May 1 of this year. Since that news broke we know of efforts in Colorado to move recomposition forward. We also know…
Read MoreWhile Funeral Director Daily has not written much on the subject lately, in today’s news feed we found two articles on the green burial movement that we thought we should pass on to our readers. According to one of the articles, Green – or Natural burials – is said to consume 4% of the death…
Read MoreThe city of Amherst, New York, is proposing to build a “first of its kind’ memory garden in that community. The cemetery, if built, proposes to be a cremation only cemetery with walking paths and gardens and would not allow standard headstones as seen in most cemeteries. The idea has been proposed by the city…
Read MoreLet’s see. . . Super Bowl, State of the Union Speech, Impeachment Vote, my Minnesota Twins got involved in a blockbuster baseball trade, and my Minnesota Gophers beat arch-rival Wisconsin in basketball. . . it’s been quite a week to keep everything straight. To end it for my Funeral Director Daily readers I will not…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: I happen to be on vacation this week. And, when you are from Minnesota, you take vacation in a warm weather climate. Just for a little throwback to last year at this time, I happened to be on my vacation from Minnesota when the Polar Vortex got stuck over the state. And, I…
Read MoreThe realization that 57% of cremated remains are not accounted for by means whereas the deceased can be memorialized into the future has caused some church communities to wonder if their ministry can help address the needs of the community that would lower this number. According to this article in the Rancho Santa Fe Review,…
Read MoreOver the last couple of years of writing the daily article for Funeral Director Daily one of my routines is to continuously search for information that might be of interest to those in the funeral, memorial, or what is now being called the “Death Care” space. In doing so, I have came across many articles,…
Read MoreAs we close out this Christmas week we thought we would share with you some information on cemeteries that we noticed in the news this week. Our first news story and video comes to us from New Orleans and deals with the Lafayette Cemetery Number 1, which is being closed to visitors for the next…
Read MoreI really enjoy learning about history. . .and United States history is even more interesting to me. If you like learning about United States history you will be happy that I am sharing this article that I found pertaining to Washington, DC’s Congressional Cemetery. You can access the article here. First of all, I learned…
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