Archive for the ‘Funeral Industry’ Category
Florida Elects Tea Party Funeral Director
18, Nov 2010Outspoken Fla. Democratic Rep. Grayson Unseated Mike Schneider and Bill Kaczor, The Washington Post (November 02, 2010) Buried deep in this Washington Post article on the November elections is the following factoid: one of the newly elected Republican Congressmen from Florida is also a Funeral Director. Representative-elect Steve Southerland is part of the Southerland Family [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Popular Culture|Funeral Industry
- Tags: funeral directors
Green Burial: A Review
8, Oct 2010Eco-friendly or “green” burial methods and practices are the hot topic in the funeral industry and mortuary sciences these days. Everywhere you turn, there is a new book, article or news report on the subject. There is even a Green Burial Council, which touts itself as “an independent, tax-exempt, nonprofit organization working to encourage environmentally [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Burial|Cemeteries|Death + Popular Culture|Eco-Death|Funeral Industry
- Tags: green burial
It’s My Way or Highway (to Hell). Neither O.K.
12, Sep 2010Australia’s Catholic church bans pop songs at funerals Reuters, Melbourne. September 10, 2010 There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven. A time to give birth, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to uproot what is planted. A time to [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Popular Culture|Funeral Industry|Grief + Mourning
- Tags: memorializing
St. Joseph Abbey’s Monks Battle State Funeral Industry Regulators for Right to Sell Caskets Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Times-Picayune (August 13, 2010) Monks Fight for Right to Sell Caskets Locally Debbie Glover, St. Tammany News (August 15, 2010) One of the lesser-known classic blunders is trying to prevent jovial Benedictine monks, living peacefully in their [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Economy|Death + the Law|Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, funeral homes, video
Casket Trust-busting on the Horizon?
2, Aug 2010Consumer Advocates Want More Competition in Casket Market April Dembosky, Marketplace (August 2, 2010) American Public Media’s Marketplace has a short radio segment about a consumer advocacy group suing the three major casket companies for monopolizing the market. A federal judge will decide later this week whether the companies’ distribution policy of selling caskets to [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + the Law|Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, podcast