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Most Americans Today Are Choosing Cremation – Here’s Why Burials Are Becoming Less Common
Blavity via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWritten by David Sloane, University of Southern California ____ The National Funeral Directors...
Two-fifths ‘have gone into debt to pay for a funeral’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoForty-three per cent of grieving adults have gone into debt or experienced financial hardship after...
How to cut the cost of dying
The Week via Yahoo News· 3 months agoOlder couple looking at computer. The cost of dying is on the rise as funeral costs hit a record high. Research by SunLife shows that after two years of...
Savvy Senior: Preplanning funeral? Here's a breakdown of what to expect costwise.
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDEAR SAVVY SENIOR: How much does a typical funeral and body burial cost today? My wife and I are...
Death is anything but a dying business as private equity cashes in on the $23 billion funeral home...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoPrivate equity firms are investing in health care from cradle to grave, and in that latter category...
L.A.'s best-kept secret: Where you can legally scatter someone's ashes
LA Times via Yahoo News· 11 months agoMany people wish to have their ashes scattered after death. (Ross May / Los Angeles Times)...
Meet the Companies Trying to Be the Uber of Funerals
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPhoto Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast/GettyJohn Paul Tocher was in the middle of pounding a fence post into his yard last year at his home...
8 American Products and Services We Can All Agree Are Outrageously Expensive
Cheapism via AOL· 1 month agourbazon/istockphoto Highway Robbery While we all welcome the news that prices continue to cool after...
Reynolds to add crematory after city changes stance
The Decatur Daily, Ala. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJan. 27—A proposal to build what a Decatur official referred to as an "industrial" crematorium that could have serviced multiple funeral homes was nixed, but a slimmed down version was approved ...
Darth Vader, Gandalf and naturists: the rise of eccentric funerals
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoNaturists, a funeral director dressed as Gandalf, and a greengrocer who wanted vegetables instead of...
