Cremation
Last week Environment and Energy Minister Giorgos Stathakis signed off paving the way for the first crematory to be installed in the country of Greece. According to Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis this “will allow Greece to fulfill its commitment for upholding citizens’ rudimentary rights”. You can read more of this article here. According to the…
Two articles were recently written about an article that was published by Dr. Nathan Yu and colleagues in the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA) on February 26. The JAMA article was a case report dealing with a 69 year old man with pancreatic cancer who was treated with nuclear medicine at an Arizona hospital in…
I recently read an article from the Post Register of Idaho Falls, Idaho that pertained to the Wood Funeral Home of Idaho Falls and Ammon, Idaho building a 4,000 square foot facility to cater to cremation choice families. You can read the article here. My original intent after looking at the article very briefly was…
Over the weekend we learned that the cremated remains of three people had been stolen before they could be sent to their respective loved ones. You can read an article and see a news video from Las Vegas News 8 here that explains the situation. From what I can gather remains from Las Vegas Cremations…
Back in 2002 all of us in the death care industry got a shock when we found out about what was happening in Georgia with the case of the Tri-State Crematory. For those of you who are too young or just don’t remember it was the first time we ever heard of a funeral trade…
Spain’s Valencia region backtracked on some proposed regulations concerning cremation last week. The area had issued proposed regulations for human cremations as the practice is growing in demand in the area. The governmental region had mentioned that they are concerned with, and want to curtail, emissions from incineration. You can read about these ideas here.…
While I did not attend the recent National Funeral Director’s Association gathering in Salt Lake City, I recently visited with an attendee about the gathering. One of the things that this veteran funeral director told me was that he cannot remember a time when so many traditional funeral home owners talked about revenue declines and…
You can read an article here from Sacramento’s CBS Local which explains a jury award just last Friday that amounted to $605,000 victory for the mother of an infant cremated without her expressed wishes. The Los Angeles County based case actually put the damages to the mother at $1.1 million but also said that the…
With cremation as a choice of disposition gaining acceptance and practice across the United States it stands to reason that funeral homes and crematory operators don’t just get into “a routine” without checking all of the boxes prior to the actual cremation. Since cremation is irreversible, it behooves us as a profession to get it…
