Posts Tagged ‘funeral homes’
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
Dead Drunk Funeral Freebies for NYE
29, Dec 2009 Free Funerals for Drunk Drivers
Jerry Carnes, 11Alive (December 29, 2009)
A public awareness campaign for drunk driving meets cheeky morbidity in Rome, Georgia. Here citizens can sign a contract at McGuire, Jennings and Miller Funeral Home stating they intend to drive after drinking or doing drugs on New Year’s Eve. Those who die will receive [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Humor
- Tags: funeral homes, marketing, video
Ambulance Chasing: Not Just for Lawyers!
30, Nov 2009 Guatemalan 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, as [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + the Law| Death Ethics| Funeral Industry
- Tags: funeral directors, funeral homes
Detroit: Too broke to bury their dead
Poppy Harlow, CNNMoney.com (October 1, 2009)
This CNN story on Detroit is heartbreaking. The economic situation in Detroit is horrible enough, but this particular dispatch says more about the financial straits of life and death than anything I have seen.
Over the summer, the New York Times ran an article [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Economy| Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, cremains, funeral homes, insurance, unclaimed bodies, video
Mausoleum Mural Dedication
1, Oct 2009Here in Portland, OR, one of the largest hand-painted murals in the United States is being dedicated tomorrow—and it’s on the side of a mausoleum—in my neighborhood!
The 50,000 square foot hand-painted wildlife mural on the side of Wilhelm’s Portland Memorial Funeral Home is being dedicated tomorrow, Friday, October 2 and will include a rooftop [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Art / Architecture| Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: funeral homes