Archive for the ‘Funeral Industry’ Category
Sexy Coffin Calendar Showdown!
25, Feb 2010Coffin Calendars Are a Sexy Hit
New Poland Express (October 16, 2009)
via Trendhunter Magazine, “Controversial Casket Calendars”
Last October DeathRef tweeted about Italian coffin maker CofaniFunebri, which created a coffin product catalog featuring scantily clad goths. (This did not make the Death Reference Desk proper — while fine with being a sexy goth coffin calendar tweeter, I [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Humor| Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, marketing
Three Feet of Snow Does Not Stop Funeral Directors
12, Feb 2010Funeral Directors’ Challenge: Death Waits for No Snowstorm
William Wan, The Washington Post (February 12, 2010)
This is a classic news article about two kinds of hot topics: funeral directors and freakish weather events. You put these two things together and WHAMMO, you’re king of the world.
So right now in Washington, DC (which is still digging out [...]
- By: John
- In: Funeral Industry
- Tags: funeral homes, funerals
TiVo Grief with Funeral Webcasting
29, Jan 2010 Funeral Webcasting – Can’t Attend a Memorial Service?
FuneralResources.com
via The Consumerist, “Now You Can Attend Funerals Live Over the Internet”
Laura Northrup at the Consumerist recently blogged about funeral webcasting with this video from Chris Hill at FuneralResources.com. Weirdly, the vid seems aimed at those in need of services for loved ones while the accompanying webpage [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Technology| Death + the Web| Funeral Industry
- Tags: funerals, video, webcasting
Aurora Casket Company Trying to Stop Cremations with Video
R. Brian Burkhardt, YourFuneralGuy (January 25, 2010)
YourFuneralGuy just found a gem: it seems the Aurora Casket Company, one of the big three casket manufacturers in the United States, made a video of a mock funeral for direct cremation, the very villain encroaching on and slowly killing [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Burial| Cremation| Death + Humor| Death + the Web| Funeral Industry
- Tags: mock funerals, video
Cremating Supersized Dead Bodies
16, Dec 2009Bath Cemetery Refused to Cremate Man Because He Was Too Heavy
The Bath Chronicle (December 14, 2009)
Every once in a while, a dead body story brings home the following point: all the issues that surround the living world don’t entirely stop when a person dies. Indeed, funeral directors and crematorium operators encounter most aspects of the [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation| Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, obesity