Posts Tagged ‘coffins’
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
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 [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Humor|Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, marketing
Premature Burial Device Patents
2, Feb 2010Brace yourself for some library science / classification / database search nerdery… or skip below to see a list of U.S. patents related to premature burial! This morning I ran across a list of suspected premature burials with some interesting contemporaneous newspaper clips (it also links to How to Survive If You Are Buried Alive [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Burial|Death + Technology|Death + the Law
- Tags: coffins, patents, premature burial, research
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 [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation|Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, obesity