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Sexy Coffin Calendar Showdown!

25, Feb 2010

Coffin 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
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Three Feet of Snow Does Not Stop Funeral Directors

12, Feb 2010

Funeral 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
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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
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Video Killed the Cremation Star… or So Suggests Casket Company

25, Jan 2010

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
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Cremating Supersized Dead Bodies

16, Dec 2009

Bath 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
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