Dodd targets funeral industry
09/30/2003
York Casket Co setting up in Harmony
09/30/2003
Alderwoods funeral firm, formerly Cdn owned, to sell UK assets
09/30/2003
More Japanese Choose Non-Traditional Burial
09/30/2003
Gravestone Theft at UK's Western Cemetery
Mother cannot understand why council doesn't put cameras in all cemeteries...
09/30/2003
£10m to Remember D-Day
Scottish lottery money to fund memorial for 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings...
09/30/2003
Santa Fe construction workers unearth human remains
Cemetery more than 150 years old...
09/30/2003
Theft from mourner shakes Ottawa community
Second time a thief has robbed mourners at Cobden Cemetery...
09/30/2003
Nashville church to landscape indigent Bordeaux Cemetery
09/30/2003
Emotions run high over Aboriginal Heritage
If Black Point is recognized as Aboriginal Heritage Site, number of burial sites would be protected...
09/30/2003
Draeger Medical Acquires Hillenbrand Industries' Infant Care Business
09/29/2003
Grieving heightened by blunders in MI
Families discover strangers buried in loved ones' plots...
09/29/2003
Buyout? It's your funeral
UK's Sovereign Capital to buyout funeral directors Laurel Management Services...
09/29/2003
Passing technology: Funeral homes get wired to the Web
At least 30 percent of funeral homes now have Web sites...
09/29/2003
Women become force in funeral industry
Make up majority of students studying for mortuary degrees...
09/29/2003
On the Final Journey, One Size Doesn't Fit All
Funeral industry is retooling to make room for ever-larger Americans...
09/29/2003
Boca firm planning to freeze bodies stymied
09/29/2003
Cemetery industry sees 'tomb boom'
Many people want elaborate, high-tech final resting places...
09/29/2003
Volunteer effort refurbishes grave markers in Ogden, NY
09/29/2003
Taunton, MA neglecting nationally-treasured Mount Pleasant Cemetery
09/29/2003
New York passes law requiring documentation of every step of funeral process
09/29/2003
AL Supreme Court upholds $950,000 verdict in cremated body mix-up
09/29/2003
Do Not Call - Dignity Memorial Listens to 50 Million Americans
SCI already reduced telemarketing efforts...
09/26/2003
FTC to Appeal Do-Not-Call Ruling
09/26/2003
Waterloo cemetery to offer cremation section
'Remembrance is important...'
09/26/2003
Even in death, Viva Las Vegas
09/26/2003
Mausoleum boom livens burial trade
09/26/2003
Funeral association worried about stigma after charges against Leyden's
09/26/2003
Preparing for the inevitable
The time had come for me to purchase two burial plots...
09/26/2003
Prepaid funeral can have pitfalls
Carefully examine the contract find out what state laws protect you...
09/26/2003
Space Burials Now Being Offered to the Worldwide Public
Celestis, Inc. pioneered post cremation spaceflight memorials...
09/26/2003
Government Grave Marker Requests Now Made Easier
09/26/2003
Uncovering the mystery of the deceased
Concord, NH volunteers try to identify State Hospital gravestones...
09/26/2003
NJ's Hopewell Veterans Cemetery damaged by vandalism
09/26/2003
CA's Davis signs Ord cemetery measure
Law sets up commission to make vet burial sites priorities...
09/26/2003
VA Approves $1.6 Million for Wrightstown Veterans Cemetery
09/26/2003
Tombstones found by road in Bridgeton, NJ
09/26/2003
Leyden's Funeral Home allegedly preyed on Asians
Offered inflated price which was then reduced, creating the illusion of a deal...
09/26/2003
Leyden's Funeral Home and Trillium Funeral Service Corp charged in Calgary
Cremation complaints sparked probe...
09/25/2003
Little Rock's Roller Funeral Homes makes museum donation
09/25/2003
Funerals becoming more personalized
Funeral homes across nation encouraging families to stop by for open houses...
09/25/2003
Goshen, IN area funeral homes to have grief series
09/25/2003
Tony Randall's Odd Gig: Promoting Funerals
Now spokesman for final act...
09/25/2003
New Broomfield, CO cemetery set to open in late October
57 people already on waiting list to buy plots...
09/25/2003
Ground broken on KS vets cemetery
09/25/2003
Reaction from Tri-State Crematory victims' families
09/25/2003
U.S. Court Unplugs Anti-Telemarketing List
09/24/2003
Ex-crematory operator pleads innocent to some charges
09/24/2003
WI's Steil Camacho Funeral Home and Shriner-Hager-Gohlke Funeral Home Merge
09/24/2003
Cemetery Department funds may be available for Tauton, MA
Nearly $200,000 not being tapped to maintain city cemeteries...
09/24/2003
Honolulu group may take over financially troubled Nu'uanu cemetery
09/24/2003
Enhancement works at Ireland's ancient Bonnifinglas Cemetery
09/24/2003
Waukesha, WI city panel fires cemetery chief amid harassment claims
09/24/2003
Hillenbrand's revised forecast sees slight increase in profit
09/24/2003
Good grief! Wade's Funeral Home wins with "Big Mama's Kitchen"
09/24/2003
Hillenbrand raises 4th-quarter earnings outlook
09/23/2003
Granted Wishes helps families plan very personalized service
Concept very different than funeral or wake...
09/23/2003
Funeral Business to Get Ethics Guidelines
NFDA system for disciplining —even expelling— members...
09/23/2003
CA suit targets domestic partners law
Expands rights of gay partners in granting surviving partner right to make death-related decisions...
09/23/2003
Arlington tomb sentinels shun shelter
As Isabel raged, guards at 'Unknowns' monument stayed at posts...
09/23/2003
Arrest made in Portsmouth's Exeter Cemetery vandalism case
09/23/2003
Nine tips that surviving spouses need to know
09/23/2003
Researchers date Britain's 'oldest cemetery'
09/23/2003
Remains of 400 slaves to be reburied
09/23/2003
Tri-State Crematory Operator to Enter Plea Today
09/23/2003
Alderwoods Group Completes $325 M Debt Refinancing And Further Debt Reduction
09/22/2003
Hillenbrand Industries to Announce Fiscal 2004 Earnings Expectations
09/22/2003
Palm Mortuary adds that special Vegas touch
Themed funerals with customized backdrops and an almost anything-goes attitude...
09/22/2003
Women becoming a force in funeral home industry
09/22/2003
Lincoln comes a calling
Replica of custom coffin used to show President Lincoln brings history to Salisbury...
09/22/2003
Hey, it's your funeral: Trend is for personalized themes
09/22/2003
Pataki signs body-tracking bill
Family must receive copy of receipt given for the dead person...
09/22/2003
Unclaimed ashes are scattered on Glasgow's River Clyde
09/22/2003
Second burial after grave blunder in UK
Woman buried in wrong grave two years ago with a stranger...
09/22/2003
Dutch still care for graves in the Netherlands American Cemetery
09/22/2003
Epitaphs one way to sum up what we want from life, contributions to it
09/22/2003
Brent Marsh arraignment set for Tuesday, Sept. 23
09/22/2003
How to do your bit for the planet even when you're dead and buried
09/22/2003
A grave New Zealand dispute - the fight to bury the dead
In the fields of the dead, a turf war is being fought...
09/22/2003
Funeral industry regs sought
Controversy over role of federal government in regulating the industry...
09/17/2003
NFDA President to Hold NPC 'Newsmaker' News Conference
Will announce a new industry code of conduct...
09/17/2003
FL's Live Oak Cemetery condition brews complaints
09/17/2003
Unearthing clues for Providence's Cumberland Cemetery
09/17/2003
Grandmother's remains to be exhumed in Wales after blunder
09/17/2003
Holly Township landmark will open in fall 2004
New vets cemetery 40 miles from Detroit...
09/17/2003
Portland cemetery supporters buried in red tape
Problems at Columbian Cemetery divide advocates, caretaker...
09/17/2003
Myers Funeral Home and Crematory renewal brings more trees to California
Affiliation with Lofty Oaks Association—dedicated to reforestation and conservation efforts...
09/17/2003
Undertakers See Baby Boomers Boosting Market
09/17/2003
Tougher state, fed laws wanted for 'death care'
09/16/2003
U.S. Taps Bugle
After six-month trial involving more than 1,000 funerals digital device approved by Pentagon...
09/16/2003
UK bouquet straight from the heart
Book shows how special, unforgettable and essential flowers are used for funerals...
09/16/2003
Man given 18-month term for Balt. Co. cemetery vandalism
Also ordered to work 3 years at damaged sites...
09/16/2003
Walk through IL's Elmwood Cemetery and get a history lesson
09/16/2003
CT's Oak Grove will stay open
Despite managing association squandering $300,000 in perpetual care funds...
09/16/2003
Emotional Tributes for Johnny Cash in Tennessee
An open casket, with large pictures of Cash on either side and video screens showed films highlighting his life...
09/16/2003
Study shows need to crack down on 'death' industry
Sen. Dodd, D-Conn., said study underscores need for tougher federal laws...
09/15/2003
Analyst Picks (SRV): Small firms get little respect
09/15/2003
A Call for Eternal Equality
Seeking Acceptance, Gay Veterans Group Pushes for Memorial At SE Cemetery...
09/15/2003
Oakland's national cemetery will have 'simplistic beauty'
09/15/2003
Calgary service honors memory
Tree dedication ceremony hosted by McInnis and Holloway Funeral Homes...
09/15/2003
Explaining funeral planning and why it is necessary
09/15/2003
Funeral home directors' advice: Write wishes down
09/15/2003
Homeless veteran gets decent burial in TX
Getting program off the ground to bury homeless veterans...
09/15/2003
Dying to know if there's a fate worse than death
Public's response to the Australian Museum's exhibition Death: The Last Taboo
09/15/2003
Starting out
British undertaker drives motorcycle hearse...
09/15/2003
Ohio man accepts responsibility for discarding bodies at funeral home
Faces up to nine years in prison...
09/15/2003
'On Behalf of a Grateful Country ... '
Arlington Cemetery maintains a reputation as pure as the marble headstones that dot the hillsides...
09/15/2003
Federal report finds spotty regulation in death care industry
09/12/2003
Cemeteries bury toxic legacy
Ireland produces enviro-friendly caskets for $1,100...
09/12/2003
Louisiana Shuts Down Insurance Agent for Multiple Violations
09/12/2003
Elderly widower stored wife's body for years
Hoped she could someday be brought back to life...
09/12/2003
Dealing with mass fatality
Fisk is a funeral director who specializes in mass fatality...
09/12/2003
Toledo Funeral Home Owner Expected To Plead Guilty
09/12/2003
A son buried five times
The mourning may never be allowed to end...
09/12/2003
Cemetery condition brews complaints
Workers who mow and trim the cemetery have been pulled off to help collect garbage...
09/12/2003
Muted memorials mark 9-11
Raw grief gives way to quieter moments on 2nd anniversary...
09/12/2003
Grave Robbers
Widow's fury after thieves nick turf from lair of soldier...
09/12/2003
Cemetery settles lawsuit filed for cave-in survivor
Man who helped rescue girl in cave-in honored...
09/12/2003
Veterans cemetery bill goes to Davis
Measure keeps possible site at Fort Ord alive...
09/12/2003
Jail prisoners brought in to clear overgrown cemetery
Abandoned church graveyard gets first cleaning in about five years...
09/12/2003
Cemetary thugs walk free
Two teenagers desecrated a Jewish cemetery causing &#pound;1 million of damage...
09/12/2003
GAO REPORT: States vary in regulation of cemeteries and crematories
09/11/2003
Matthews International Announces Personnel Changes
09/11/2003
Walker Financial Corporation Executes Trust Administration Agreement with Whitehurst-Powell Funeral Home of Crestview, Florida
09/11/2003
Proposed change in cemetery rule draws criticism
N.J. board considering dropping regulation that keeps advance fees for burial services in trust...
09/11/2003
Legally Speaking: Funeral homes reluctant to honor cremation instructions absent consent from next-of-kin
09/11/2003
UK fears over burials costing the earth
09/11/2003
We Have to Follow the Cemetery Rules
Clampdown on rules and regulations at Torquay Cemetery in UK's South Devon...
09/11/2003
Princess Royal to open 9/11 tribute garden
British victims being remembered on second anniversary...
09/11/2003
Sept. 11 March Becomes A Circle of Hope
09/11/2003
Actors bring lives to life in Oregon graveyard
Volunteers will tell tales of the dead during Monumental Moments...
09/11/2003
Hillenbrand Industries Announces Fourth Quarter 2003 Dividend
09/10/2003
Hillenbrand Industries Names Kimberly K. Dennis Vice President, Corporate Services
09/10/2003
Funeral home sues competitor
09/10/2003
Buried with dignity
A new Metroplex program to give homeless vets military funerals lays to rest its first ex-serviceman...
09/10/2003
Coffin drama has undertakers fuming
Undertakers are having a bit of a problem making the coffins fit the ovens at Hong Kong's newest crematorium...
09/10/2003
San Rafael crematory limits OK'd by planners
09/10/2003
Delay of action on Tri-State Crematory case
09/10/2003
Families, communities find own ways to mark Sept. 11
09/10/2003
Commission looks to expand Bellevue Cemetery
09/10/2003
All eyes on start of graves inquiry
Investigation as to why hundreds of headstones were flattened...
09/10/2003
Cemetery bankruptcy case dismissed
09/10/2003
Family win headstone row
The headstone for their daughter's plot was one inch higher than regulations allowed...
09/10/2003
Village, clergy fight to save cemeteries from O'Hare
09/10/2003
Carriage Services Form 8-K
09/09/2003
Death Takes a Holiday
Stewart Enterprises Inc. posted a quarterly loss...
09/09/2003
First Settlements Reaching In Tri-State Crematory Case
09/09/2003
Struggling HI cemetery shuts down operations
09/09/2003
Undertakers taking care of business
In an age of inexorable corporate consolidation, independent funeral homes are alive and kicking...
09/09/2003
Death is a growth business
Abundant land, new trends leave Lee County cemeteries, crematoriums with secure futures...
09/09/2003
Funeral home damaged by fire
Cause under investigation; no injuries were reported...
09/09/2003
Crematory site rejected by Oswego
09/09/2003
Headstones Toppled, Destroyed In Cemetery
Family Members Are Devastated...
09/09/2003
Struggling cemetery shuts down operations
The owners of financially troubled Honolulu Memorial Park have closed the cemetery indefinitely...
09/09/2003
'They don't ever have to worry about it again'
Funeral pre-planning removes a burden from the family...
09/08/2003
Hillenbrand Industries Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Advanced Respiratory, Inc.
09/08/2003
Finding his niche in death
'Competitive Caskets' retailer undercuts funeral home prices...
09/08/2003
Bad casket, missing gun trigger lawsuit against Cleveland cemetery and funeral home
09/08/2003
Cremation gains favor for some in KY
09/08/2003
Death is a growth business in Southwest Florida
Abundant land, new trends leave cemeteries, crematoriums with secure futures...
09/08/2003
Casket salesman takes to the road
Casket Coach a unique way to sell...
09/08/2003
PA daughter fights for legal rights of survivors
Believes all family members should be notified before a relative is buried...
09/08/2003
Toledo funeral director charged with 9 felonies
Owner will likely plead guilty to abuse of corpse, fraud...
09/08/2003
Southern University at Shreveport funeral program expects accreditation
09/08/2003
Funeral home offers refunds for alleged improper cremations
Overture called 'slap in the face'...
09/08/2003
No rest for cemeteries' fund-raising friends
Portsmouth's cemeteries are among the oldest in the nation...
09/08/2003
Themed backdrops being offered by Palm Mortuaries, Cemeteries and Crematories
Including a "Las Vegas" setting...
09/08/2003
Soldiers learn to deliver grim news
Casualty assistance officers spend up to a year working with the deceased's immediate family...
09/08/2003
Cemetery offers an earthy alternative
The latest fad in dying...
09/05/2003
KH cemetery is at the center of change
09/05/2003
Rest in peace keepers
Many sociological and psychological skills are involved in the process of burial...
09/05/2003
Funeral director still can't identify remaining body
Of the eight bodies found in the funeral home six of the deceased were identified...
09/05/2003
Flight 93 coroner ready for return to simple life
09/05/2003
Ashes of woman may never be claimed
If no one wanted the ashes they were likely to stay in storage for 10 years...
09/05/2003
Row as mourners get parking fines
09/05/2003
Cops Stop Funeral Biker Rev
Procession held up by police...
09/05/2003
Compensation for parents of boy killed by gravestone
09/05/2003
Remembering the Forgotten
Coroner launches effort to mark indigent graves...
09/05/2003
Escort for mourners at danger graveyard
Headstones are in such a dangerous condition...
09/05/2003
Oakland's Lone Tree Cemetery expanding
09/05/2003
Las Vegas' Palm Mortuaries Puts a Spin on Funerals
09/04/2003
Grief Corps
Military's Casualty Assistance Officers Deliver The Worst Possible News and the Best Possible Help...
09/04/2003
Cemetery hotline for expired graves
Almost 2000 sites will be exhumed, re-used unless relatives respond to Centennial Park Cemetery (Aus)...
09/04/2003
Helping Deal with Loss
The delicate balance that comes with being a funeral director...
09/04/2003
Corpse gaffe probed: MA eyes accidental cremation of infant
Possible new legislation this month to create 'guarantee fund' for families...
09/04/2003
Officials ready to break ground for KS veterans cemetery
09/04/2003
Big Isle mortuary family could get prison time
09/04/2003
A tomb with a view
It's a park you might not think to visit...
09/04/2003
Granby NY Seeks Relief To Repair Damaged Gravestones
09/04/2003
Kin's death-notice law sought
Distraught survivor seeks state and federal requirement that next-of-kin be notified...
09/04/2003
France buries its unclaimed dead
Despite appeals for relatives...
09/04/2003
Identifying graves brings relief
Burial records destroyed in a 1970s fire in the sexton's office...
09/04/2003
Cemetery offers a chance to stay green even after death
An 'ecological alternative'...
09/04/2003
Mothe Funeral Homes Inc. of New Orleans Rejoins Order of Golden Rule
09/04/2003
FL bill to take aim at funeral industry
08/28/2003
Dead man walking was live man faking
MN fakes obit to avoid court...
08/28/2003
3 UK funeral directors join elite in trade by attaining new qualification
08/28/2003
Tri-State Crematory operator indicted on 787 counts
08/28/2003
Centenary for grave concern
UK's Frank Massey & Son Ltd celebrates 100 years...
08/28/2003
Death and life row over South African paupers' cemetery
Legal battle between local authorities and cemetery owner...
08/28/2003
Grave exhumed at Menorah Gardens to give family peace of mind
Exhumation was the first of what could be as many as 60...
08/28/2003
Two San Marcos, TX cemeteries desecrated
Police seek vandals who smashed statues, graves...
08/28/2003
UK Cemetery Used As A 'Drugs Den'
Couple leading campaign for better security at Grange Lane...
08/28/2003
Restoration of OH's Middlebury Cemetery will get UA archive show
Exhibit examines preservation efforts at historic burial grounds...
08/28/2003
Syracuse photographer documents cemeteries, monuments in mural
Exhibit part of city's 150th anniversary celebration...
08/28/2003
Legal family feud keeps dead man from his final resting place
Tug of war goes before Broward Probate judge...
08/28/2003
Pay customers respect, let them rest in peace
New Canadian company offering respect for the dead...
08/27/2003
Pensacola could put brakes on police funeral escorts
08/27/2003
ME court okays Pratt class-action lawsuit
Group claims former funeral director bilked them out of thousands...
08/27/2003
For these tomb riders, a hearse is the only way to go
08/27/2003
Kershaw County Sheriff continues tradition for grieving families
08/27/2003
Prosecutors urged to rethink theory in Tri-State Crematory case
08/27/2003
Winchester, VA Descendents Hope for 200-year-old Mount Zion Cemetery's Restoration
08/27/2003
Call for separate traditional Maori burial areas in New Zealand
Cemeteries generally facing east because it was tradition in European culture...
08/27/2003
Tri-State Crematory case going to grand jury after 18 months
08/27/2003
Chicago program enlists businesses to offer seniors discounts
SeniorSave Discount Directory includes the Cremation Society of Illinois...
08/27/2003
Kenyan leaders happy over Wamalwa's briefcase
All personal effects, including a walking stick, must accompany the casket carrying a leader until he is buried...
08/27/2003
Stewart Enterprises, Inc. Q3 2003 Conference Call Invitation
08/26/2003
Funeral expenses overwhelm survivors
08/26/2003
Funerals 101
Ivy Tech's new mortuary science program begins this week...
08/26/2003
Florida: reform funeral industry to protect consumer
Special legislative session planned for October...
08/26/2003
KY's Todd County funeral homes change hands
08/26/2003
Hughes-Allen Funeral Home is in the business of family in Marion, OH
08/26/2003
Crooks prey on grieving families
Read obituaries and note when the funeral is going to be...
08/26/2003
Grave fight for one UK man and his dog
Pleads to be buried with his beloved boxer's ashes...
08/26/2003
NJ cemetery, in receivership, had been counting on turnpike funds
08/26/2003
Provo, UT seeks to reclaim cemetery plots
08/26/2003
Hill-Rom Deploys Saba
Expands deployment to meet enterprise learning needs...
08/25/2003
New Bereavement Register promises to stop junk mail to the dead
Being launched in Canada today...
08/25/2003
Houston company SCI transforms death-care industry
08/25/2003
Carmon Community Funeral Homes in Windsor receives approval for construction of funeral home
Plans include small park and community-based artwork...
08/25/2003
Hundreds of bodies unclaimed in France's heatwave
Officials assured Parisians there would be no mass graves...
08/25/2003
Grief seminar in Goshen, IN will address needs of children
08/25/2003
Planning ahead for funeral services helps families during tough times
But many people are uncomfortable discussing death...
08/25/2003
No respect: stealing remembrance trees in Fairbanks, AK
Law makes it a felony to vandalize cemeteries, memorials and gravesites...
08/25/2003
As development grips the Carolinas, descendants of slaves work to mark cemetery
More black cemeteries are discovered and what should be done with them is an issue...
08/25/2003
Wilmington, DE skull theft may be linked to religion, police say
Grave robbers may be among those who perform macabre rituals of Palo...
08/25/2003
Family memorial made with scraps and love in Kadoka, SD
08/25/2003
Lost souls
Florida Memorial's cemetery mix-ups, contract clauses upset mourning family members, stall sense of closure...
08/25/2003
Floating coffin leads to lawsuit
Barzen working for SCI's Fountainhead Memorial Gardens while she was suing it...
08/25/2003
Two more Hmong funeral homes planned in MN
Heavy demand for unique cultural services that are not possible in mainstream funeral homes...
08/22/2003
Canada's Arbor Memorial Services Inc. declares dividend
08/22/2003
Hill-Rom Signs Supply Agreement With Visonic Technologies Americas
08/22/2003
'We're all going to die, it's part of life'
London funeral director needs diverse qualities...
08/22/2003
With last kiss, widow dies at spouse's coffin
08/22/2003
'God bless' spells more trouble for Guardsman
Superiors give his job back but bar him from uttering phrase...
08/22/2003
UK concern at grave fall risk
Potentially dangerous memorials at Dorking cemetery have been fenced off to protect the public...
08/22/2003
Don't Call It Potter's Field
Not everyone buried in NJ's unearthed Laurel Hill was poor...
8/22/2003
Preserving Charlotte's Elmwood and Pinewood cemeteries
08/22/2003
The Past? We Really Dig It!
Britain's 'multi-age' site yields five Bronze Age burial mounds, medieval chapel and cemetery...
08/22/2003
Pair charged in MA's Chestnut Hill Cemetery vandalism
08/22/2003
'Butterflies, Angels & Roses' - Symbols take on new meaning when remembering our loved ones
08/22/2003
French funeral homes say heat death toll at 10,000
08/21/2003
E-mail condolences slow to catch on in Grant County, IN
08/21/2003
L.B., CA funeral home found belly-up
Leggett & King shut; fate of property uncertain...
08/21/2003
SCI, the world's largest funeral company, faces legal action from 100,000 relatives
08/21/2003
Philly's Sadler Funeral Home sold to owners of Suess Funeral Home
08/21/2003
Ernestine O'Bee 'Takes Five'
Milwaukee's matriarch of the funeral home industry...
08/21/2003
Scenes From the Northeast: Even a Blackout Can't Still Life's Rites
MI funeral businesses don't stop because of blackouts and water shortages...
08/21/2003
Cinci workers try to repair what vandals tore down
Returning headstones to their rightful places at United Jewish Cemetery...
08/21/2003
Grave duty: NC genealogists depending on headstones at Greenlawn Memorial Park
08/21/2003
Montreal's Notre Dame Des Neiges at Mount Royal Cemetery plan raises hackles
Proposals for three-story mausoleums, bike path would be a blight, opponents say...
08/21/2003
MI casket-maker finds a niche catering to the pet set
08/21/2003
SCI Announces Class Certified By Florida Court
08/20/2003
Lawsuit against Menorah Gardens Funeral Homes and its corporate parent SCI alleges abuses
08/20/2003
Changes planned for KY's Fairview Cemetery
City wants families to make aesthetic changes...
08/20/2003
Are we more in death?
Sooner or later, death comes to us all...
08/20/2003
Secrets of the ancients revealed in Welsh border excavation
Shape of the landscape can help spot potential burial grounds...
08/20/2003
Council blasted over its treatment of graves at Canowindra cemetery in Australia
08/20/2003
Roseboro funeral home's crematory request denied by N.C. Court of Appeals
08/20/2003
Manitowoc, WI establishing new cemetery
08/20/2003
Dream of owning own funeral home coming true in Pittsburgh
08/19/2003
UK funeral hoax by former boyfriend
Sent undertakers to home of former girlfriend's mother to organize woman's 'funeral'...
08/19/2003
Sensitivity vow over city gravestones row in UK
08/19/2003
WA mourners bury ML cemetery with complaints
Owner says he must enforce his policies at his business...
08/19/2003
Tri-State Crematory case could go to grand jury next week
08/19/2003
India's Fernandes goes on the defensive
Denies any wrongdoing in ordering of caskets from United States...
08/19/2003
Fake obit slips through at NH weekly
08/19/2003
PAC Money: WI campaign donations analyzed
NFDA gave nearly $60,000 to federal candidates and party organizations...
08/18/2003
Costs rise, local CA funeral homes hang on in changing market
08/18/2003
Grieving in a digital age
Funeralnet.com builds and maintains Web sites for funeral homes across the country...
08/18/2003
AL funeral home sued over embalmings
Nonlicensed workers used...
08/18/2003
Man 'meant' to help others consoles families of lost loved ones
Spent much of his life working in the funeral and cemetery industry...
08/18/2003
When death comes, many residents take next flight out
In Florida, everybody is from someplace else...
08/18/2003
FL pathologist strives to provide 'peace of mind' with private autopsies
08/18/2003
Suns promotion drives home value of pre-planned funeral
Death has been the Hagerstown Suns' biggest promotion...
08/18/2003
Homeowner in Newport, AK discovers 150-year-old graveyard
08/18/2003
UK headstones cause grave concerns
Making cemeteries safer is now a top priority...
08/18/2003
Family's feud may have led to theft of urn at IN cemetery
08/18/2003
Taboos suppress choice to cremate in TN
08/18/2003
Couple has planned 'every phase' of their own funerals
Found harmony in their choices...
08/18/2003
Hearse driver sacked for losing coffin
08/18/2003
Matthews International Corp. Financials
08/15/2003
How to plan an $800 funeral
08/15/2003
Trendy outdoor movies a 'hot summer ticket' the whole family can enjoy
At the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, people watch films projected on a marble mausoleum wall...
08/15/2003
Everyone makes due without losing their cool
At Meyers Funeral Home lights were blinking on and off like a haunted house...
08/15/2003
Former funeral home owner in court
Andrew L. Pratt misappropriated money customers had given him...
08/15/2003
Few clues about cemetery desecrations
A vault was badly damaged, leaving a steel casket visible for days to passers-by...
08/15/2003
Calgary funeral home under scrutiny
Province seizes cremation documents...
08/15/2003
City teens arrested for tipping headstones
08/15/2003
Cryonics critic apologizes for photos
08/15/2003
Pine Tree Cemetery, sanctum of repose and tranquility
"To know the character of a community, I only need to visit the cemetery"...
08/15/2003
Merrillville man charged with extortion attempt
08/15/2003
Ministers visit war shrine as Japan marks anniversary of WW II surrender
08/15/2003
Spiritual quest leads visitor to Bob Marley's Zion
He was interred with his Bible and his Gibson guitar...
08/15/2003
Hillenbrand Industries, Inc. Announces Results of Debt Tender Offers
08/14/2003
Carriage Services Inc Quarterly Report
08/14/2003
Cryonics executive stirs furor
Site launched showing remains of Ted Williams...
08/14/2003
Saints preserve us, the mummies will return
Toronto funeral homes gearing up for mummification trend...
08/14/2003
Funeral homes in Weld, CO offer online services
Taking advantage of the Internet to create permanent memorials...
08/13/2003
Preplanning reduces emotional decisions
08/14/2003
Gravestone Paid For, Not Delivered by Carolina Marble and Granite
08/14/2003
MI's Staffan-Mitchell Funeral Home celebrates 150 years
08/14/2003
Coventry's 150 year-old cemetery opens for tour in UK
Cemetery was designed as Victorian "gentleman's park" for recreational purposes...
08/14/2003
After 35 years his weary bones would finally be laid to rest
Indian Army retrieves skeletal remains...
08/14/2003
Guilty plea in Norwegian desecration case
08/14/2003
CARRIAGE SERVICES INC Quarterly Report (SEC form 10-Q)
08/13/2003
HB Industries Inc. Files (8-K) Disclosing Other Events and Financial Statements and Exhibits
08/13/2003
Matthews International Corporation Acquires Reproservice Eurodigital GmbH Munchen
08/13/2003
Matthews International Corp Quarterly Report
08/13/2003
Stafford NJ funeral home's former manager accused of theft, forgery
08/13/2003
Funeral homes enter the electronic age
Virtual sympathy is better than none...
08/13/2003
Criticism over Six Feet Under adverts
Beauty to die for...
08/13/2003
Council orders dead woman to tidy memorial
08/13/2003
DE's Latino community ensures final rest
Cost of about $5,000 to prepare and transport body to another country...
08/13/2003
New TX law shaking things up in funeral industry
08/13/2003
Boca company may open cryonics lab for people who want to rise from dead
08/13/2003
TN Funeral Board fines company over burial mix-up
08/13/2003
Hammer terror at UK graveside
Mother and daughter confronted by hammer-wielding thief...
08/13/2003
Reburial hitch won't delay NJ turnpike work
08/13/2003
Resting in its rightful place
Stolen 1893 tombstone returned...
08/13/2003
PA's Burns Hill Cemetery adds 2 to board of managers
08/12/2003
Record heat wave takes deadly toll in Paris
Funeral directors say demands for their services have risen sharply...
08/12/2003
More picking eco-friendly resting place for burials
08/12/2003
An appropriate place for that final leap
Football-themed niches will be available at Green Bay memorial park...
08/12/2003
Vet 'Blessed' to Get Job Back in NJ
Fired for offering religious blessings at funerals...
08/12/2003
Silverton, CO resident made cemetery his mission
08/12/2003
Fears Australian pokies tax could kill off funeral service in Lightning Ridge
08/12/2003
South African Funeral Cheats Prosper On Aids Deaths
08/12/2003
Disturbed Gainesville graves spur search
08/12/2003
Pittsburgh's Historic Homewood Cemetery celebrates 125th anniversary
08/12/2003
Graveyard tests watering can vending machines
08/12/2003
Funeral industry using Web to share sympathy
Obituaries, Tributes Put Online...
08/11/2003
Kin Sue Over Rat-Devoured Corpse in NY
08/11/2003
Funerals are seeing an evolution of the eulogy
08/11/2003
Baby boomers remaking funeral industry
Directors meet demand with new products, services...
08/11/2003
Unclaimed Ashes in Scotland: Notice of Service
People cremated between 1958 and 2001 are to be interred Allenvale Cemetery...
08/11/2003
Aging inmates present prison crisis
Angola officials are determined to provide "death with dignity" for inmates...
08/11/2003
Displaced Chinese Ancestors Reburied in U.S.
Under a government policy called funeral reform, more than 430,000 tombs were cleared...
08/11/2003
Source for Seniors: MI Burial costs
08/11/2003
Stuhr's builds on long family tradition
It takes a lot more than a kind word to keep a funeral home in business...
08/11/2003
Exposed: Scotland's Killer Crematoriums
Lethal mercury vapor released into air when a body is cremated with amalgam fillings...
08/11/2003
'Dangerous' implants a burning question for state crematories
Jack Springer said accidentally incinerating dangerous or explosive implants in crematories is quite rare...
08/08/2003
Decision forces SCI to restate earnings
08/08/2003
Sign of the times in funeral business: e-mail condolences
08/08/2003
Death - The Most Important Job Interview of Your Life
As for me, when I die I want to look dead...
08/08/2003
Schmanski gets satisfaction funeral service
Schmanski recently received a plaque commemorating 50 years in the business...
08/08/2003
Cedar City stopping police funeral escorts
08/08/2003
Hopes of End to Speed Bumps Are Flattened
One undertaker had to ask grieving relatives to get out of his vehicles every time he approached a speed bump...
08/08/2003
New human remains discovered at reinterment site
Turnpike to look for another location for transfer from potter's field...
08/08/2003
Judge orders trial in civil suit
Funeral director Randall J. Smith had diverted some funds clients had deposited for prepaid funeral services...
08/08/2003
The Legend Of Spaghetti
The McDougalds were left with a bona fide mummy, which they stored upright in the garage...
08/08/2003
Mystery gravestone leads to tale of boy's early death
08/08/2003
Vet Fulfills Dreams for Pearl Harbor Dead
08/08/2003
Futch must be reburied due to error
Adjacent plot sold twice, senator's family claims...
08/08/2003
SCI returns to profitability
Despite an increase in cremation services performed...
08/07/2003
Service Corp. Lowers Profit After Ruling
08/07/2003
Getting into DNA
OK's Blanchard funeral home offering DNA retrieval services...
08/07/2003
Daytona volunteers 'spruce up' cemeteries
08/07/2003
IL judge orders trial in Smith Funeral Home Corporation civil suit
08/07/2003
Funeral parlors keep businesses in the family
Valley's four-county area boasts more than half of the funeral homes in PA...
08/07/2003
FL State Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers Approves Settlement
Concerning Lynn University's defunct funeral services program...
08/07/2003
UK chapel saved by funeral director investing personal funds for restoration
08/07/2003
Vet Fulfills Dreams for Pearl Harbor Dead
Sprosty played taps at the USS Arizona Memorial...
FL's Senator Futch must be reburied due to error
Family claims adjacent plot sold twice at Menorah Gardens...
08/07/2003
Second state veterans' cemetery under way in KS
Demand for plots expected to be high...
08/07/2003
S&P rates Hillenbrand Industries shelf
08/06/2003
We all should honor, support his labor of love
Oregon Pioneer Cemetery Commission recently received state funding...
08/06/2003
Independent UK graves inquiry to go ahead
Will look into how council dealt with checking safety of over 40,000 headstones...
08/06/2003
Lucas County Prosecutor's office admits its Calvary and Willow cemeteries error
08/06/2003
Ontario couple uncovers broken headstone–and mystery–in back yard
08/06/2003
City officials ask for financial data and audits on CT's financially troubled Oak Grove Cemetery Association
08/06/2003
Cemetery fees on the rise in MA
08/06/2003
Ohio Cemetery Owner Serving 10 to 30 Year Sentence for Mismanaging Cemeteries Wants Out Of Jail
08/06/2003
Review of Milwaukee Archdiocese program's operations results in firing cemeteries director, aide
08/06/2003
Widow still backs donation program despite grisly find
Part of husband's remains stolen from UC Davis Medical Center's Donated Body Program...
08/06/2003
Service Corporation International Announces Its 2nd Qtr Earnings Call
08/05/2003
Carriage Services Reports 2nd Qtr Results
08/05/2003
Public comment sought on second proposed SD crematorium
08/05/2003
Zamboanga City to take care of unclaimed cadavers in Philippines
08/05/2003
Wilson Funeral and Furniture Company Family Businesses Stand Test of Time
08/05/2003
Records sought to ID body in Toledo funeral home
08/05/2003
The chronicles of others' lives matter to all
Obituaries past the point of being official public notices of death...
08/05/2003
Kansas City cemeterian combines work, faith
08/05/2003
The Indian Brahmins who became untouchables
Traditional occupation of performing cremation rituals results in being shunned by society...
08/05/2003
Poker amid ashes? Cremation may yet get the upper hand
08/05/2003
Coffin up old work places
BBC series set to dig up an old city favorite - the Coffin Works...
08/05/2003
Carriage Services Announces 2nd Qtr Earnings Release and Conference Call
08/04/2003
Hillenbrand Industries, Inc. Announces Fixed Spread Tender Offers
08/04/2003
A final farewell with a custom fit
With a themed funeral, you can be surrounded by the things you love...
08/04/2003
Zimbabwe's economic crisis leaves morgue overfilled
08/04/2003
PA board holds sway over use of 'funeral' in name
State law gives broad oversight authority to the board over everything to do with funerals...
08/04/2003
TN mortuaries' clients seeking low-cost services
Simple Tribute caters to the discount niche...
08/04/2003
Britain Talking: The Undertaker's Story
Wanted to work in the funeral business since she was 12...
08/04/2003
Organ donations crucial for blacks
S.F. church touts donor awareness...
08/04/2003
UK protesters fail to halt new crematorium build
08/04/2003
N.Y. Councilman's Body Exhumed, Reburied
Remains moved from the cemetery where his killer's ashes also were interred...
08/04/2003
HILLENBRAND INDUSTRIES INC Quarterly Report (SEC form 10-Q)
08/01/2003
Woman Accused of Stealing Dead Man's Ring
"She was leaning over the casket at the time she was visiting it..."
08/01/2003
Virtual Funerals
A new way to pay your respects...
08/01/2003
Hope buried after private funeral
08/01/2003
Dig up my son
Mom wants Davis out of killer's cemetery...
08/01/2003
Police escort former owner from funeral home property
The former owner was charged with trespassing...
08/01/2003
Man charged with sex with boy
A Montco mortician accused of having encounters with a South Jersey 14-year-old is held without bail...
08/01/2003
Streaming video and audio bring the action to your desktop
A funeral home in Gujarat uses this method to telecast funerals...
08/01/2003
Plan would help US Airways, grieving families
Yeager’s Atkinson wants to ease shipment of loved-ones’ bodies back to WV...
08/01/2003
Funeral home ad angers war veteran
The television advertisement shows footage of a colleague who died recently...
08/01/2003
Gov't Digs For New Military Cemetery Locations
New Cemetery To Be Built At MCAS Miramar...
08/01/2003
War graves vandalized in France
08/01/2003
Cemetery security needed
Shame, shame on the thieves...
08/01/2003
More war graves vandalised
Vandals have smashed headstones and crosses...
08/01/2003
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SCI's Second Quarter 2003 Earnings Release
Scheduled to start Thu, Aug 7, 2003, 10:00 am Eastern...
07/31/2003
Finding solace in a signature
From astronauts to Bob Hope, funeral home's book offers chance to say goodbye...
07/31/2003
S&P assigns Alderwoods Group corporate credit rating
07/31/2003
Dying Tradition, As African Funeral Customs Abandoned
07/31/2003
New Laws Include a Fourth Legal Way to Dispose of Human Remains
07/31/2003
Waverly, PA cemeteries waging battle with woodchucks
07/31/2003
Fears rise for 205-year-old cemetery
Panel to discuss projects UNC-CH plans...
07/31/2003
Skull stolen from DE's Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery
07/31/2003
Judge denies former crematory operator's bond reduction
07/31/2003
Hillenbrand Industries Reports 3rd Qtr Revenues of
$552 Million — an Increase of 92% Versus Prior Year
07/30/2003
A new option for your earthly remains
MN law allows for disposal of human bodies through a disintegration process...
07/30/2003
Stranger's gesture united many who had loved a fallen soldier
07/30/2003
Claybar Funeral Home to build 10,000 square foot facility in Bridge City, TX
07/30/2003
Funeral containers not taxable, MO Supreme Court rules
07/30/2003
MO Supreme Court Says Caskets Are Taxable
07/30/2003
Grand parade of custom cars for UK funeral of car fan
07/30/2003
UK Council Moves To Stop Graves Crisis
Search is on to find site for a new £ 2 million cemetery...
07/30/2003
Sent letter a grave error
City of Edmonton invites interred woman to attend Mount Pleasant Cemetery open house...
07/30/2003
Robbers loot graves in Sibu, Borneo
80 graves desecrated in the past week...
07/30/2003
PA cemetery caretaker carves out new career
Decorative sandstone markers byproduct of lettering business...
07/30/2003
Death comes to life
Service Corp International Australia exploring new strategic initiatives...
07/30/2003
Laid to Rest, Yards Apart in NY
One of the paradoxes of death, you never know who your neighbors will be...
07/30/2003
Alderwoods Group announces refinancing efforts
07/29/2003
Funeral Director, Hearse Driver Sue Service Corp Over Pay
07/29/2003
Carriage Services Announces 2nd Qtr Earnings Release & Conference Call Schedule
07/29/2003
Benton, WA gives new morgue go-ahead
07/29/2003
Death and the Internet: Online 'death logs' feed the country's obituary fascination
07/29/2003
Open casket still possible with autism tissue project
07/29/2003
Border becoming a tomb of the unknowns
Pauper's grave typical ending for many unidentified immigrants...
07/29/2003
Rock of Ages Reports 2nd Qtr Results
07/29/2003
High Demand: Harris may be retired from the pulpit but not from officiating funerals
07/29/2003
Hungry Ugandans may boycott funerals after bishop's call to stop feeding mourners
07/29/2003
Philly's NBC 10 Investigators: Grave Problems At Cemeteries
Fallen Tombstones, Waist-High Weeds Found In Historic Cemetery...
07/29/2003
What happened to 'perpetual care'?
PA's Morris Cemetery now looks like a dump...
07/29/2003
Burial plot offers peace to pet owners in IA
07/29/2003
From death, Life
One tissue donor can save the life of or restore sight to up to 100 people...
07/29/2003
LA Woman Accused of Stealing Ring from Dead Body
07/29/2003
Life and Death
The pro-life themes of HBO’s Six Feet Under...
07/28/2003
Waters recede, IN neighbors unite
Klaehn Fahl & Melton Funeral Homes lends it premises to flooded church...
07/28/2003
Burying the dead, helping the living
African-American-owned funeral homes helped shape the destiny of the living for nearly a century...
07/28/2003
Durant's Coffey-Murray Funeral Home honored
Among the top in customer satisfaction...
07/28/2003
Prince Andrew Leads Gulf Tribute
Thanksgiving and remembrance service...
07/28/2003
Funeral director has been helping IA families for 40 years
07/28/2003
South African undertaker's reign of terror causing additional sorrow
07/28/2003
MI search teams uncover hidden graves at Round Top Cemetery
07/28/2003
Tokyo grave prices out of this world
07/28/2003
Why we buried our mom in a pet cemetery
07/28/2003
Missing Bones: Woman Wonders Where Murdered Daughter's Remains Are
07/28/2003
Ex-funeral home director ordered to pay restitution
07/28/2003
Carpenter wants to be buried in wooden Mercedes
07/28/2003
Q2 profits soar for Alderwoods funeral co., formerly Cdn-owned Loewen Group
07/25/2003
Judge revokes licenses of Madera Funeral Home
Violations cited include fraud, improper handling of remains and incompetence...
07/25/2003
Crematorium cleans up image
07/25/2003
Grave witchers take credit for locating abandoned cemetery
07/25/2003
Cemetery chapel plays host to naked artworks
07/25/2003
From tombstone's stark figures, woman gives soldier new life
07/25/2003
Economy has graveyard consequences
Even the dead cannot avoid the sluggish economy...
07/25/2003
City sees need for cemetery district
07/24/2003
State Opens Investigation of Defunct Clinton Funeral Home
07/24/2003
Wheeler Funeral Home acquires competitor Harwell and Sons
07/24/2003
It's a far cry from business as usual
With much of Memphis expecting a third day without power, funeral homes may be forced to encounter continued difficulties...
07/24/2003
Composting of dog carcasses reaches turning point
07/24/2003
They buried a second child in my son's grave
07/24/2003
Teen Sentenced in Grave Robbing
07/24/2003
Grieving wife hit by a falling headstone
07/24/2003
Vandals strike graveside memorial again
07/24/2003
Matthews International Announces 3rd Qtr Earnings and Declares Quarterly Dividend
07/23/2003
Legislation may protect consumers making prepaid funeral arrangements
07/23/2003
UK widow billed for toppled headstone
Bill sent after headstone was pushed over by council workmen...
07/23/2003
Why the UK dead can't rest in peace
Birmingham cemeteries bracing for vandalism outbreak during school summer holidays...
07/23/2003
TX cemetery's woes still surfacing
Double burials, bones causing more grief at Highland...
07/23/2003
A Rose isn't only a Rose: CA man develops hybrids for local cemetery district
07/23/2003
Reefs a special way to say goodbye
07/23/2003
CA investigation reveals body donated to UCD School of Medicine
Body parts found in autopsy assistant's personal storage shed...
07/23/2003
Fuel Crunch Leads to Rent-A-Corpse Scam
Two Zimbabwean mortuary workers rented out corpses to motorists to enable them to take advantage of special fuel preferences...
07/22/2003
Avoid funeral shock by being informed
07/22/2003
Cemeteries take away 'insensitive' advertising
Alderwoods Group Inc. removes "Celebrate Life Sweepstakes" signs...
07/22/2003
Savvy Senior: Avoid funeral shock by being informed
07/22/2003
New Funeral Regulations Benefit Businesses, Not Grieving Consumers
Assumption made by supporters is that scandals like Tri-State are less likely to occur in heavily regulated states...
07/22/2003
Brite Lite's most challenging job
Jamaican funeral home brings color and glamour to a normally mournful and somber occasion...
07/22/2003
South African mortuary worker suspended for 'embalming on side'
07/22/2003
Death Is a Sloppy Business
Inaccurate death certificates are a nationwide problem...
07/22/2003
Boy's grave vandalized in UK
Parents call for more security...
07/22/2003
Wrecking spree at UK's Birmingham cemetery
Vandals as young as eight have gone on the rampage again...
07/22/2003
8 memorial reefs placed at sea
People honor dead friends, kin in ocean burial off Charleston...
07/22/2003
Wisconsin company brings back the bugle
Taps originally written to be played on the bugle...
07/22/2003
Former crematorium owner pleads guilty
78 counts of mutilating human remains...
07/21/2003
Russellville man first to lose license under new law
The Alabama law regulates pre-need burial policies...
07/21/2003
Cemetery firm reaches accord on crypt sales
07/21/2003
Six Feet Under: the documentary
07/21/2003
Cemetery Visitors Seeking Protection From Swooping Birds
07/21/2003
Death rite poses risk to nature
Traditional cremations create environmental crisis in India...
07/21/2003
A lasting comfort
Once, cemeteries in a church's back yard were common...
07/21/2003
Cemetery gets second chance at life
A private burial ground in was given to the City in 1949, and turned into a playground...
07/21/2003
Cannabis plants 'found at son's grave'
07/21/2003
Stones speak to desire for enduring tribute
Robert Fells: "Memorializing pets is a growing business, although it's hard to put numbers to it..."
07/18/2003
Cemetery Ordered To Pay $5 Million For Burying Strangers In Family Plot
Woman's Plots Resold To Other People...
07/18/2003
Know your rights when it comes to funeral planning
07/18/2003
N.C. House unanimously approves cremation, funeral law changes
07/18/2003
Cemetery Volunteer Restores Respect To Area Graveyards
A Biloxi man is on a clean up crusade in local cemeteries...
07/18/2003
Proposed laws aim to preserve, protect cemeteries
07/18/2003
Cemetery filming children at school to show at their funerals
07/18/2003
Families cite grave injustice
Some people thought the flags they were leaving at Laurel Grove Memorial Park were being stolen...
07/18/2003
Cemetery firm reaches accord on crypt sales
07/18/2003
N.J. Turnpike need not look for graves beneath highway
07/18/2003
Funeral chain files to aid sale
Prime Succession Inc. voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday...
07/17/2003
No objections to $3 million settlement with SCI subsidiary
07/17/2003
New Funeral Rules Help Business, Not Consumers
07/17/2003
'Six Feet Under' Leads Emmy Nominations
07/17/2003
Family Suing Over Hell Prediction at Funeral
07/17/2003
Baby's body misplaced at Metro General
07/17/2003
Body parts' return shocks dad
After father objected to possible for-profit use, son's tissues sent to mortuary in boxes...
07/17/2003
Jackson funeral home's success has been family affair
07/17/2003
Family Pays For Headstone That Never Arrives
Funeral Director Eventually Reimburses Money...
07/17/2003
HIV affected woman burnt alive: NCW
07/17/2003
Dead man's family sue priest for Hell remark
07/17/2003
Jennifer's Tears At Cremation Mix-Up
A mix-up at an Exeter vet's surgery resulted in a mass cremation...
07/17/2003
Reins shifting at Stewart Enterprises
07/16/2003
Washington funeral home rising to occasion to ensure vet's burial
07/16/2003
UK crematorium goes under canvas
Services will be held on the chapel lawn while repairs carried out...
07/16/2003
CA cemetery filming children to show at their funerals
Hollywood Forever archives footage for future memorial...
07/16/2003
Show a little respect: Let funeral processions pass
07/16/2003
Big increase in humanist funerals
UK's West Midlands Co-op has experienced 72 per cent growth...
07/16/2003
Hundreds of 300-year-old South African Cape graves dug up
Site not marked in historical documents...
07/16/2003
Gibraltar, WI residents get in line to rest in peace
07/16/2003
Past speaks to the future in Edmonds, WA
Cemetery board hosts 'a walk through time' open house...
07/16/2003
The many faces of Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery
07/16/2003
UK doctors back death certification reform
07/16/2003
Government Six Feet Under
New funeral regulations benefit businesses, not grieving consumers...
07/15/2003
Organ Swapping Club Faces Opposition
07/15/2003
Hillenbrand Industries Files Universal Shelf Registration Statement With SEC
Potential Sale of Up to $1 Billion of Debt and Equity Securities...
07/15/2003
Frank B. Stewart, Jr. Elects to Become Chairman Emeritus on Stewart Enterprises, Inc. Board
Directors Elect William E. Rowe, CEO, to Assume Chairmanship...
07/15/2003
Wrong body found in grave - Menorah
07/15/2003
More Details On NEMO Coroner Arrest
Tax Problems...
07/15/2003
Some Funeral Practices, Traditions Fail to Make Sense
07/15/2003
Buglers Running Short for Military Funerals
Department of Defense offering electronic bugles to interested veterans organizations for a price...
07/15/2003
UK Families Go To War Over Headstones
Council agreed to pay compensation after independent report published...
07/15/2003
CT officials refuse to allow WTC replica at victim's grave
07/15/2003
Veterans Administration will celebrate anniversaries with events at national cemeteries in September
07/15/2003
Polish Basket Weavers Find UK Market for Coffins
07/15/2003
Hillenbrand Industries 3rd Qtr Earnings Conference Call
Wed, Jul 30, 2003, 9:00 am Eastern...
07/14/2003
Aging Newtown cemeteries neglected
07/14/2003
Funeral firms stand to profit from Georgia's new law
07/14/2003
Over-the-top eulogists get carried away at funerals
07/14/2003
New Jamaican hospital rules result from misidentification of infant's body
07/14/2003
Company seeks to run crematory in Tualatin, OR
07/14/2003
My Turn: Working With Death Was No Way to Live
07/14/2003
Identification brings closure to OH family
One of the eight bodies found in June at a Toledo funeral home...
07/14/2003
It's Nature's Way: UK Muslims will soon be able to take their last journey in a bright green hearse
07/14/2003
UK poet laureate's eulogy guide
Project aims to ensure everyone is given a fitting eulogy...
07/14/2003
Pokagon Band plans to claim human remains and rebury them according to tribal custom
07/14/2003
No claim of ownership leaves SC cemetery unkempt
Some want the city of York to claim ownership and clean up the black cemetery...
07/14/2003
Wasua, WI's population eclipsed by burials at one cemetery
07/14/2003
Lewes, Delaware gravestones detailed by historical society
07/14/2003
IN experts to search for hidden graves in Blue Island's Memorial Park
Chicago workers discovered a coffin buried more than 70 years ago...
07/14/2003
Vets' graves marked with honor
Fort Collins worker tracks down proof of service...
07/14/2003
Roadside memorials present a challenge
States try to address issue of proliferation...
07/14/2003
Dust to dust: Changing times help bury family cemetery tradition
07/14/2003
Ex-mayor buried in wrong grave
Coffin will be moved – council apologises to family...
07/11/2003
Construction workers unearth unmarked grave
07/11/2003
Rush for graves at Tokyo's Aoyama Cemetery
Despite charges of up to more than 10 million yen per grave...
07/11/2003
Fire Hits Funeral Home
07/11/2003
7th body identified; woman died in 1996
The seventh of eight bodies found last month at a central Toledo funeral home was identified...
07/11/2003
Skeletal remains yield few clues
Fragmented human remains likely disintegrated from the corpse when it was moved to another cemetery...
07/11/2003
Funeral home, church make symbiotic pact
Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors has found a new home...
07/11/2003
Museum Explores Embalming in Civil War
07/11/2003
More Bodies Are Buried From Srebrenica
Thousands mark anniversary of massacre...
07/11/2003
Final resting place
Johnson Cemetery's stature gains with historical marker's dedication...
07/11/2003
Unsafe Graves Laid Flat By Church
07/11/2003
Roadside shrines challenge transportation officials
07/11/2003
Singin' for the cemetery
Some New Orleans musicians die indigent...
07/11/2003
Murderers grave site request denied
07/11/2003
Smithfield cemetery yields subtle clues
Archaeologists may have discovered Gov. James Preston's grave...
07/11/2003
Funeral home sues former village trustee
07/11/2003
Matthews Intl Announces 3rd Qtr Earnings Release and Conference Call Schedule
07/10/2003
Preserving for eternity
Mummification novel way to commemorate the death of loved one...
07/10/2003
TX funeral home, church make symbiotic pact
New building functions as a church and funeral home...
07/10/2003
Scattering Gardens Offer Alternative Final Resting Place
07/10/2003
Kain and Holl-Murphy merge funeral business into one NJ location
07/10/2003
Good grief: how to cope with sympathy
07/10/2003
NJ's Camden Diocese seeks to build cemetery in Franklin Twp.
07/10/2003
Remains unearthed in Belarus town as stadium expanded over cemetery
07/10/2003
Renowned anthropologist investigating PA mystery grave
07/10/2003
NJ's Brien rips colleagues after funeral bill dies in committee
07/09/2003
Crematory debacles cast "shadow of doubt" over funeral industry
07/09/2003
Grand jury finds possible wrong-doing at Hopland Cemetery District
07/09/2003
Toledo funeral home owner apologizes for improper care
07/09/2003
The bookie heads off to paradise
Perfect farewell to a man of his profession...
07/09/2003
Canadian parkway plan threatens serenity of tiny graveyard
07/09/2003
Jewell Grove Cemetery issue escalates in IL
07/09/2003
Lansing may reclaim thousands of grave sites
Lots that haven't seen burials since late 1800s could be resold by city...
07/09/2003
More than 50 tombstones vandalized in four IL cemeteries
Adams Memorials volunteered to reposition and repair at no cost...
07/09/2003
White doves make for touching funerals, unique business
"It gives the family the feeling that their loved one is rising up to the sky to be with God"...
07/08/2003
Seattle man turns cremation into art
The mother of a Seattle artist worried that her son was going to turn her into a teapot...
07/08/2003
Midnight 'cremation' stokes suspicion
07/08/2003
Vigor mortis
Mary Roach's new book, 'Stiff,' confirms there is a life for the dead...
07/08/2003
Recently departed get in the last word with casket keepsakes
07/08/2003
WVMC chief denies involvement in 'secret' burial of patient
07/08/2003
AL forensics faces cuts
No longer transporting bodies to state labs and back to local funeral homes...
07/08/2003
Moscow Mourns Terror Victims
07/08/2003
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada cemetery rules too draconian
City told to give living freedom to remember dead in own ways...
07/08/2003
UK Cemetery Plan for Former Royal Doulton Factory
Factory on the market to ease a critical shortage of burial plots...
07/08/2003
Web registry will list those who gave WWII service
07/08/2003
Zimbabwe crematorium suffers backlog due to gas shortage
07/08/2003
UK man says goodbye to mum with a bang
Fireworks display expected to be noisy and spectacular...
07/08/2003
Anthrax is latest issue in wrangle over cemetery
07/07/2003
Cemetery faces 70 exhumations
The suits claim the cemeteries misplaced, lost track of and oversold plots...
07/07/2003
Savannah splits up corpse recovery at crime scenes and accidents
07/07/2003
Durham's neglected Geer Cemetery begins to generate lively interest
07/07/2003
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