Posts Tagged ‘funeral homes’
Dead Drunk Funeral Freebies for NYE
29, Dec 2009Free 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 [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Humor
- Tags: funeral homes, marketing, video
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, [...]
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 [...]
- 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, public art
Home is Where the Dead Body Is
21, Jul 2009Home Burials Offer an Intimate Alternative Katie Zezima, New York Times (July 21, 2009) Tuesday’s New York Times featured a front page article — FRONT PAGE — on people who choose home burials for a deceased love one. Economic concerns are given as a key reason for any upsurge in home burials, because they do [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Death + the Economy|Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, funeral homes, home burial