Posts Tagged ‘funeral directors’
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
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 [...]
- By: John
- In: Funeral Industry
- Tags: funeral directors, funerals
Ambulance Chasing: Not Just for Lawyers!
30, Nov 2009Guatemalan Funeral Homes Compete for Corpses Associated Press (November 29, 2009) With its excess of murders and dearth of death practitioner regulation, Guatemala is home to “mobile morticians,” chasing ambulances and staking out city morgues to be the first to pounce on mostly low-income, grieving relatives. They’ve even earned a deathly moniker: “calaqueros,” or skullmongers, [...]
The Art of the Death Business
7, Jun 2009Jason Boone snoops around the 2008 National Funeral Directors Convention, offering a glimpse into death industry gadgets, gimmicks and personalities. Aired on Current TV, this video short includes a number of flyby alternative burial and creative memorializing products and perspectives on the profession from young funeral directors. Contributed to Current.com January 22, 2009.
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Funeral Industry
- Tags: funeral directors, video