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Earlier in April Parting Stone and its CEO Justin Crowe appeared on an episode of Shark Tank looking for potential investors to help move the company along into the mainstream of post-cremation remains options. And, while that happened as the company took an investment offer from well known Sharks Kevin O’Leary and Lori…
I’ve been maligned and others in the profession have told me I am wrong when I say the funeral directors and funeral home owners can be “Entrepreneurial”. Several people have dropped me notes or emails that tell me I am “dead wrong” and death care is a business that is not entrepreneurial, but…
I continue to be one of the dwindling daily hard copy newspaper readers left in America. It must be hereditary as my father subscribed to both the Minneapolis Tribune morning newspaper and the Minneapolis Star evening newspaper when I was growing up. I can remember vividly coming home from elementary school and spreading…
Natural Organic Reduction (NOR), sometimes referred to as “human composting” may not be my ideal choice of body disposition. But, that thought does not make me any less of a fan and admirer of Recompose founder Katrina Spade. Spade, in only a few short years has moved NOR from idea to proven…
Parting Stone, the company that has pioneered “solidified remains” for cremation remains, will be represented on ABC’s Shark Tank this Friday evening by founder and CEO Justin Crowe. According to a press release from Parting Stone, “. . . Crowe will be pitching the service on the April 7th episode of Shark Tank”.…
This article that was first published in the Los Angeles Times begins “It was standing-room only in the cavernous Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, where the funeral Mass for Bishop David G. O’Connell was held Friday morning. And it seemed every one of the 3,000 mourners in attendance had a…
The last ten days or so most of America, and the rest of the civilized world, has wondered about the safety of the banking industry. As this is being written on Friday, March 17, we’ve already seen American banks Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank closed by regulators and have seen some…
It’s not every day that you turn to the magazine Popular Mechanics to find an article about the Death Care profession. However, that is exactly where I found this article about “Have trocar will travel” embalming and body preparation specialist Monica Torres. I was unaware of Torres and her company NXT Generation…
Last week we wrote of the death of Robert L. Waltrip, founder of funeral and cemetery business Service Corporation International (SCI). In the article I wrote that Waltrip was arguably the biggest influence on the direction of the Death Care in the United States during the last half of the 20th century. …
Last week I had a two hour drive and set my radio to a station on Sirius that featured a news talk show. What was highly unusual was that the group of well-known broadcasters started talking about death care and then started talking about what their wishes would be for their own…
