green burial
This article from Fast Company introduces us to a new start-up in the burial and memorialization space, Transcend. Transcend, the brainchild of founder and CEO Matthew Kochmann, plans to be somewhat like Better Place Forests in that they will be bringing forests and trees into the realm of memorialization. Unlike Better Place Forests, where a…
Read MoreNew products and services used by the American public seem to start as fads, become a trend, and then, those with staying power evolve into a tradition of life. Over the last few days I’ve noticed a couple of products that have either followed that road map or may be on their way to dissolving. …
Read MoreAs we post our final Afternoon Edition before the Labor Day holiday we do so with some articles that are heavily weighted to the cemetery side of the death care profession. In today’s News from the World of Death Care we bring you an article from “The Conversation” that deals with how the cemetery could…
Read MoreA written article and video news story from NBC Connecticut that you can see here tells the story of the death and eventual burial of Ms. Tessa Pascarella. The story is one of the difficulty of having a green burial on land you own and how that can be accomplished. To me, it is also…
Read MoreYesterday we wrote about an article in Chicago Business which featured a story on Chicago area funeral homes that were seeing a drop in margins and a drop in number of calls. The end result of that fact was that many of the smaller firms were actually closing their doors for good. Funeral Director Daily…
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