Posts Tagged ‘funerals’
Cemeteries: More than Just Gloom and Doom
18, Aug 2010To Attract Future Customers, Cemeteries Hold Parties to Die For Graveyards Plan Concerts, Sky-Diving, Clowns; ‘Meet Us Before You Need Us’ Araby Williams, Wall Street Journal Multimedia Producer and Stephanie Simon, The Wall Street Journal (August 12, 2010) The Wall Street Journal ran this short video on cemeteries working to attract a wider audience. This [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Death + Humor|Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: celebrity death, funerals, marketing, video
Plain or Fancy?
4, Jul 2010Seems like funerals or memorial services are either getting simpler or more complex these days. Green burials and simple home rituals are gaining momentum, but so are high end funeral extravaganzas that spare no expense. In an article that appeared in yesterday’s U.K.-based Independent newspaper, “the rise of the distinctly unconventional celebrity send-off is proof [...]
Meeting Offers Information on Home Funerals Jeffrey Weiss, The Dallas Morning News (April 12, 2010) When the Death Reference Desk formally launched in the summer of 2009, it became clear that economic issues related to death and dying would continually pop up. Earlier this week, The Dallas Morning News ran an article on home funerals [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Economy|Death + the Law
- Tags: funerals
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 homes, funerals
TiVo Grief with Funeral Webcasting
29, Jan 2010Funeral Webcasting – Can’t Attend a Memorial Service? FuneralResources.com via The Consumerist, “Now You Can Attend Funerals Live Over the Internet” Laura Northrup at the Consumerist recently blogged about funeral webcasting with this video from Chris Hill at FuneralResources.com. Weirdly, the vid seems aimed at those in need of services for loved ones while the [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Technology|Death + the Web|Funeral Industry
- Tags: funerals, video, webcasting