Heavy.com Explores Jewish Funeral Customs
In the wake of the horrific murder of eleven kind souls at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hills neighborhood of Pittsburgh, we pause ...
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Take in a Baseball Game and Win a Funeral
If you are at HarbourCats baseball stadium in Victoria, BC tonight when the hometown team meets the Corvallis Knights you may just win a pretty ...
Would you like to play a game? A Look at “A Mortician’s Tale”
We're used to seeing and hearing about death in video games. The way it usually works is whoever is dead is killed in some kind ...
Baylor Adds Course in Death and Dying.
Students at Baylor University in Waco, Texas can now take a course that explores the topic of death and dying. The for-credit class is offered ...
Would you try virtual reality death?
A team of scientists in Barcelona is using virtual reality to give people the experience of death. The experiment is designed to give participants an ...
Yes, there really is a market for human bones.
A week or so ago we ran across an article in an industry blog highlighting an interview with a top collector of human bones. Yes, human ...
Weekly News: Funeral Customs and Holding Your Funeral Before You Die
Funeral customs and personalization top this week's news, along with a new trend that features holding your funeral before you die.
Weekly News: Corpses look alive at their own funerals.
With funeral personalization is on the rise with more corpses look alive at their own funerals. Also in the news: Hotwire and death ads, the ...
Weekly News: Nancy Reagan’s funeral details, Pat Conroy laid to rest.
First lady Nancy Reagan's funeral details released and Pat Conroy laid to rest.
Weekly News 2/22/2016: Home funerals in the news.
The increasing interest in home funerals tops this week's news. We learned about Diane Rehm's thoughts on life and death, how to think outside the ...
Weekly News 2/15/2016: Home funerals and how we say goodbye
Home funerals, saying goodbye, and learning more about how we handle grief are at the top of this week's news. We also learned more about ...
Weekly News 2/8/2016: How we grieve and more.
How we grieve, what our last moments look like, and the history of mourning all made it to this week's news. In the odd department, ...
Weekly News: Green burials, mushroom suits, and special people in the industry.
Green burials and the environment dominated this week's news--from overall considerations in how in ground burial impacts the environment to a burial suit that sprouts ...
Weekly News: Living past 100
It's not unusual to hear that our life spans are increasing, what may be a surprise is that those who have passed 100-years are also ...
Weekly News 1/18/16: Celebrity deaths abound.
This week's news was dominated by shocking celebrity deaths as we said goodbye to rock icon David Bowie, film great Alan Rickman, and music superstar ...
