This is a new communications vehicle for the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association. It will serve a variety of purposes, the most immediate of which will be to provide a simpler format for updating the Industry News listings.
Instead of going to the News Page each day, you will be able to come here to the Blog, where you can not only read the news but discuss it if you are so inclined.
Also, the "National/International" and "Opinion" news feeds from here on out will be of the self-serve variety: Simply peruse the lists for General News, Opinion, and Blogs, on the sidebars of the page, and visit the ones that interest you.
It may take a wee bit of adjustment to reading the news in the new format, and we appreciate you bearing with us as we bring the listings up to date.
The Blog will also provide a convenient way to distribute timely information about events that fall between the publishing cycles of the ICCFA Magazine and ICCFA Wireless newsletter. Time permitting, for instance, we should be able to provide coverage of next week's ICCFA Convention in Las Vegas.
We hope the ICCFA Blog is a useful service, and we invite your comments and suggestions.
Keystone North America Closes $40.3 Million Offering
Funeral home head fights lawsuit
SCI New Jersey Funeral Services Inc. filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging that Wien, who sold his five funeral homes to the Texas-based company 10 years ago, violated a July 1996 agreement not to compete by opening Long Island-based Wien & Son Funeral Directors last year and joining the Fort Lee-based Eden Memorial Chapels earlier this year.
Crunch Announce Details of Dignity Funeral Homes 'Escape School' Program
Although artist-designed urns and other objects are still a tiny fraction of the $11 billion death-care industry, as it is known, the gallery's opening - along with novelty items such as wind chimes with built-in cavities, pencils made from cremated remains (roughly 250 pencils per person), diamonds made from ash carbon and bird feeders designed to scatter ashes - reflect the shifting demographics of death and disposition.
More of the dying are choosing a home funeral
Keeping the funeral in the home is one way to keep costs in check, Rolfstad said. But though the practice was the norm for most of human history, it's an option that is usually overlooked.
Funeral home sued for improper embalming
Gravely speaking, green is the only way to go
The bad news is there aren't any green burials going on in Canada. They're big in Britain and growing in popularity in the U.S., but so far they are not happening here.
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Funeral homes losing on indigents
... funeral directors must furnish a casket, cemetery costs, funeral services and transportation for family members. With the average price of a low-cost funeral totaling more than $3,000, that means funeral homes are often losing more than $1,000 on each indigent funeral, funeral directors say.
Man accused o theft on plot sales
Ex-Rep. Hansen aims high with tombstone
Farmington Mayor Scott Harbertson said one reason marker height had been capped was to prevent interference with sprinklers.Not a problem, wrote the former Beltway insider. He offered to pay for the relocation of the sprinkler in question.
Residents, officials balk at talk of moving cemetery
Forest Hill lawsuits move slowly
More than 13,000 holders of prepaid burial contracts that the Forest Hill funeral homes aren't honoring are waiting for resolution of their claims as several complex lawsuits grind their way through the courts.
Grandview cemetery plagued by problems
Some crypts flooded; funds alleged missing
Safety Issues Arise At Mokelumne Hill Cemetery
Snow blamed for knocking over headstones, not vandals
TOB Releases Guide to Historic Cemeteries
A lost cemetery, a lost child, a lost soldier: All found
Mount Hope cemetery holds more than past
It matters that things be taken care of at the first break of spring because this is where the stories of the tiny Palouse community of Mount Hope come to an end. The nearly 600 people buried here outnumber Mount Hope's living population roughly tenfold.
Nobody knows 'nothing at all' of cemetery statue
Church seeks money to restore historic cemetery
Owner of Jewish Graceland lets cemetery fall apart
Shorts sells funeral homes after 52 years
Blake Sifton reflects on growing up in the shadow of his family's funeral home and corporate encroachment's threat to the integrity of the profession
Hines Funeral Service an 'SBA Success Story'
Mourning goes digital: Irish undertaker introduces funeral streaming
Disgusted with insurers, some ditching policies
Funeral homes make adjustments for obese clientele
In Scarborough, going to funeral requires a procession out of town
Scarborough, with a growing number of retirement communities and at least five housing developments that accept only people older than 55, is becoming a magnet for seniors. And the services they need.
SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL Files SEC form 8-K, Financial Statements and Exhibits
Law allows Oregon hospitals to buy unidentified bodies
Forest Hill owners lose, Bankruptcy rejection frees up class actions
2nd arrest in cemetery scam
Former cemetery worker gets prison for stealing nearly 600 vases
Senate takes up issues of cremation, burial
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Cost of death sometimes burdens local funeral homes
With land sky high, burials go upward
Leeds Muslim reject flood-hit cemetery
Doctor in cremations row suspended
Celebrant faces charges over fixing funeral costs
Boyne City Commission denies funeral home rezoning request
Grieving goes digital as funeral webcasts debut
Time to let funeral processions die?
Elkins funeral home owner ordered to repay $35,000 in pre-payments
Military funeral picketing bill goes to Kansas governor
Painting new life into the past
200-year-old cemetery may yield historical gems
Split spouses may lose funeral decisions
Mosul: Victims Pile Up at City Morgue
Governor eases cremains identification
State fails to act against North Georgia funeral home
Funeral director pumps life into Operation Halt
Sebelius Signs Bills to Promote Energy Efficiency, Reduce CO2
Green burial site set for refusal