Managing Stress for Funeral Workers
Funeral directors manage upward of 150 tasks per service, and often multiple services per day. According to Kate Hamilton of Mourning Cross Bereavement Pins, who conducted a survey among 57 funeral directors, the perso ...
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Funeral Pyres Burn Continuously After Nepal Quake
The recent major earthquake in Nepal has impacted thousands of lives across the country. In Katmandu alone, over 800 people have died in a quake that measured 7.8 on the Richter scale. As in any catastrophe, great ener ...
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Chinese Officials at Odds With Funeral Strippers
Funerals are seeing an unprecedented rise in attendance in rural China, and officials in the Ministry of Culture are not happy about it. In the past several years, the presence of exotic dancers at funeral services has ...
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Survivors Grow Diamonds From the Ashes
Algordanza means "remembrance" in Romansh. It is also the name of a company in Chur, Switzerland that is in the business of turning loved ones' cremated ashes into diamonds. Rinaldo Willy, 34, created Algordanza in ...
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Robot Funerals Denote Spiritual Connection
In January of 2015, a memorial service took place in Isumi, Japan, at a 450-year-old Buddhist temple. The figures being honored were brought together at the altar, where a priest offered prayers for the peaceful passin ...
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Social Media and Grief
It may seem like an oxymoron to use social media to channel and process something so deeply personal as grief. Many people, however, are turning to various sites to make sense of and find meaning in loss. Although sites ...
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More Women Pursuing Careers in the Funeral Industry
According to the National Funeral Directors Association, in 2010, 57 percent of mortuary school graduates in the United States were women, up 60 percent since 1995. Despite the increase in numbers, however, women face ch ...
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Five Alternative Funeral Options
Not too long ago, cremation was still considered an alternative means of caring for a loved one's body after death. In recent decades, however, there has been an explosion of choice regarding how to manage one's remains. ...
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Fewer Funeral Funds for Illinois Poor
Gov. Bruce Rauner of Illinois announced recently that he would move to cut the Funeral & Burial Benefits program from the 2016 state budget and is cutting the program for the remainder of this year. This benefit has ...
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New Traditions: Unique Funerals
Funerals around the country and overseas are adopting new ways of memorializing those we love, and people are sitting up and taking notice. Sometimes, the ones doing the actual sitting up are the loved themselves. The mo ...
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