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Female-Owned Winnipeg Cremating Service Continues To Grow
Digital Journal· 2 hours agoWINNIPEG, MB: Alterna Cremation is a female-owned and operated alternative funeral home that is growing and thriving in the traditionally male-dominated funeral services industry ...
Earning your urn: What's the cost of dying in 2024?
TheStreet.com· 5 days agoRising prices mean Americans are grappling with higher costs of living, but what about the cost of dying? Here's what you can expect to pay for cremation, urns, caskets, headstones, burial plots, mausoleum crypts, and more.
Potempa: Hammond Ringling clown-turned-Ronald McDonald David Gerard dead at age 64
Chicago Tribune· 5 days agoThe Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus made a touring return last fall in September 2023...
Colorado House passes bill to license funeral workers
KXRM Colorado Springs via Yahoo News· 5 days ago(COLORADO) — According to the Colorado General Assembly, the House passed legislation on Wednesday,...
The cost of dying is going up, leaving some Florida families scrambling
Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla. via Yahoo Finance· 5 days agoChristina Nall sat in the hospital parking lot gasping for air. Four hours earlier, her father, Bill...
Going out green: Natural burials offer a time-tested alternative to the modern funeral
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review· 3 days agoSteve Ball’s grave was marked not by a granite headstone or marble mausoleum upon the burial of his...
In This Ancient Cemetery, Romans Left Fine Glass Vessels, Platforms for Feasting and Phallic...
Smithsonian Magazine· 7 days agoArchaeologists in Narbonne, France, have unearthed a Roman necropolis containing nearly 1,500...
Cemeteries get a new lease on life as dog parks, antique markets and picnic grounds
Market Watch· 3 days agoAt a time when people’s preferences for death care have swung from formal burials to alternative...
Cremated remains of Cuyahoga Falls couple stolen from Denny's in Los Angeles
News Channel 5 Cleveland· 6 days agoThe former Cuyahoga Falls restaurant owner’s final wish was derailed this month by suspected thieves at a Los Angeles Denny’s.
Dad wants mom’s ashes scattered in Israel. Should an adult child go to court to stop him?
The Forward· 3 days agoThe Forward has been solving reader dilemmas since 1906 in A Bintel Brief, Yiddish for a bundle of...