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April 2, 2007

Industry News 04.02.07

Villages asked for extra burial plots just in case

Growing business of pet burials seen

Fire strikes troubled cemetery

Pre-teens smash cemetery

Cemetery recalls racist past

A CREATIVE AFTERLIFE: Rise in cremations creates a market for cremation urns

I will compost your corpse

When it is time to make the final call

'I can't talk about it anymore'

Bone tissue recipient sues in body parts scandal

Funeral homes, cemeteries offer services for departed pets

Hunting for Easter eggs at a funeral home

Funerals go secular

Vandals wreck Muslim graves

April 3, 2007

Industry News 04.03.07

Report: China to curb lucrative trade in grave plots

Tips for funeral preplanning

Six Feet Under-grads

Dealing with Death as the Public Information Officers

Scholar shares views on Catholic cemetery tombstones and sculptures

Judge: Don't turn daddy into a diamond

Stalking Stranger DNA to Fill in the Family Tree

British court allows argument in favour of open-air funerals

Death a costly prospect for Haitians living in poverty

More people accept cremation of loved ones: Survey

GA State officials promise change in funeral board practices

Iowa Lawmakers push bill to regulate funeral industry

China - More subsidies for sea burials

Construction uncovers old cemetery

Vandalism hinders cemetery tour plans

Life savings lost in buy-to-let tomb swindle

Custom coffins

Business makes losing a beloved animal a little easier

April 4, 2007

Industry News 04.04.07

Landlord buried with favourite car

FL: New VA cemetery lets vets stay close to home

Big Bopper's son meets his father for the first time

Cemeteries to get carved stone signs

Police Search For Cemetery Vandals

A labor of love blooms in the spring

Calumetville woman brings funerals home

Dexter funeral director killed

Residents win round 1 against funeral home

Graveyard Party

Nine years late, Dad's lost ashes come home

April 5, 2007

Industry News 04.05.07

Where can't you put human ashes?

Pondering a good buy for the Long Goodbye

Deputy unearths lessons at Body Farm

Chinese "can't afford to die" as funeral costs soar

Cape can't keep up with burial space demands

Woman robbed in broad daylight in Athy cemetery

Vaux-designed cemetery a treasured landmark

LAST RITES FOR THOSE UNWANTED WEDDING RINGS

On Call: students find part-time work moving the deceased

State revenue department closes Quad-Cities funeral home

Honors go to leaders in health

A great tradition Funeral home celebrates 25 years in community

Death and a salesman

April 6, 2007

Industry News 04.06.07

Hugh Hefner Denies Request To Give Burial Plot To Anna Nicole Smith

Beloved pets remains claimed from Hanover site

People should know laws about cemeteries

Man strives to sustain Chinese cemetery

A look into many well-known expressions

Owner was 'squatter' sleeping in condemned church

Funeral Director Released From Prison Early In Shelby County

Joseph Settineri, creator of frozen pizza dies at 92

Giving room to grieve

Mortician kills self at Falls casino table

The L.A. way of death

Taxing funerals 'immoral': Theriault

5 juveniles nabbed in extensive cemetery damage

St. Petersburg tombstones vandalized

April 9, 2007

Industry News 04.09.07

Father fights for fallen troops

Soldiers' caskets no longer 'luggage'

A generation used to peace reacts to a steady flow of coffins

When soldiers die, an internal military process takes over

That final trip home

Funeral planner is up against a formidable marketing challenge

Funeral home businesses stand their ground

Graves complicate plans for Eastern State Hospital land

Filipino veterans struggle for full benefits

Haiti Faces High Cost of Dying

Professor researches tombstones in out-of-the-way cemeteries

Space-poor Hong Kong begins burials at sea

MOTHER WAS CREMATED BY WRONG FAMILY

These baseball fans are dead serious

April 10, 2007

Industry News 04.10.07

Death-care firms struggle to remain independent

Meanwhile: Mourning on the inside

Brit Hindus may win legal battle to perform open-air funerals

Green Graves: There's a push to simplify burial and speed a body's return to earth

Senator wants pet in his casket

Bill could pave way for veterans cemetery here

Over 100 grave sites vandalized in Morristown

Row over hearse at city petrol station

Pet cemetery's future discussed

April 11, 2007

Industry News 04.11.07

Analysts predict corporate buyouts

Yes, they're big-box stores. But did you think they meant that?

James Brown: Doin' it to Death

London: Quiet heart of the city

Dignity in death: Policy change long overdue in handling of military dead.

MI State cuts affect death-care industry

Beware of thieves at city cemeteries

WOODBURY: Cemetery pulls pavilion bid off table, for now

Green Bay cemeterian elected to board

Machine guns, rifles, grenade found in basement of funeral home; Former director faces drug, firearms charges

April 12, 2007

Industry News 04.12.07

Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Dies at Age 84

Canadian Hindus seek waterway for cremation rituals

Sea burials please HK relatives

A new generation of funeral directors is poised to take the reins

Man's tattoo offers recipe for his cremation

Builder to be buried with trowel in hand

Relive Lincoln's funeral

Settlement is reached over abandoned bodies

Diverse faiths represented at consecration of new veterans cemetery

Cemetery to represent South Africa's diversity

'When the caskets arrive, it hits you again'

April 13, 2007

Industry News 04.13.07

Priest eyes mighty Niagara for burial rituals

Muslim grouping wants privileges churches get

Gonzales, FBI Director Mourn Slain Agent

Don't shy away from a funeral

Developers' latest buy: cemeteries

College Station signs deal for cemetery design

Green Lawn Cemetery photo contest winners' work on display at library

Laurel Hill sites have so many stories to tell

Funeral home to host 'healing' service for New Castle Catholic church

Liberia shuts 'hide-out' cemetery

Father's ashes refused as art

April 16, 2007

Industry News 04.16.07

Judge delays cemetery relocation project near KCI

3000-Year-Old Babajilan Cemetery to Be Excavated

110 stones toppled at Morristown cemetery

Pet cemetery to close

Cemetery tax scam results inguilty pleas

P.E.I. funeral home raises funds to help immigrants bury child in Kosovo

April 17, 2007

Industry News 04.17.07

Grief Goes Online: The boon and the bane of virtual bereavement

'FAMILY LOVE LETTER' PRESENTATION

Super-size me ... even after my death

An eternal ride: Urns go mobile

Gruesome forays into science

Tourists flock to see Berlin's historical cemeteries

'The ultimate in recycling': Earth-friendly burials

Speaker discusses eco-friendly burials

COFFIN SHAPED LIKE CORKSCREW DEADLY SERIOUS

Milford Funeral Home Offers Free Burials To City Employees

Newest national cemetery opens

Proposed Texas body farm draws criticism

Woman, 80, ran drugs to buy grave

Vandals cause damage to two famous capital graveyards

Vandals hit historic Scottish cemeteries

128 OLD GRAVES A DILEMMA FOR AGENCY

Man's body found propped against cemetery headstone

Cemetery still struggling with finances

Funeral home mourns director's death

April 18, 2007

Industry News 04.18.07

The Peacemakers: Their business is death, but they're working for the living.

Planning for a green send-off

Funeral for HK's richest woman

A harmonious afterlife: Mindful of the area's Asians, Service Corporation International designs a cemetery putting to use the principles of feng shui

Hill-Rom to create R&D hub in Batesville, add 80 jobs

Crematoriums ordering bigger furnaces 'to cope with the obese'

Community Day brings out big crowds under blue skies

Dual-Deck Graves

STATE LEGISLATURE: Rest in peace - with Fido

Grave situation: Cemetery's mistake leaves 2 families with deed to same plot

Vandals strike Jewish cemetery

Defense Ministry changes gravestone captions

Fall into grave leads to lawsuit

Body turns up months after 'cremation'

'Despicable' theft of crematorium's roof

Burial place will move

April 19, 2007

Industry News 04.19.07

Anti-gay group to picket Va. Tech funerals

Local funeral home makes donation to VA Tech memorial fund

Getting through it all: Local counselors give advice on coping with losses

Entrepreneur creates chopper-ready cremation urns

Sustainable funeral: How do you say goodbye in a socially conscious fashion?

Get Buried in a Box: It's The Green Thing to Do

Aussies urged to go green in the grave

At-home funerals are more personal, cost less

Senate backs change in burial law prompted by Clark murders

James Brown's trust owes $70,000 for funeral

Rabbits pest at graves

Funeral home to help out Morristown cemeteries

Flagler man protests at crematory

Family try to raise dead aunt

Excavating 1957 car proving tougher than expected

April 20, 2007

Industry News 04.20.07

Students rally against religious protestors at Tech funerals

Statue of patron saint of lost items vanishes

'Cremation adds to warming, should meet a timely death'

Students learn about Springfield mayor buried in glass casket and other historic events

Evil ghouls go on graveyard smashing spree

Muslim gravestones vandalized in WWI cemetery in northern France

Karamu premiere is satiric riff on mortality

Mortuary science students, professionals see embalming of head trauma victims

Kays-Ponger Funeral Homes to celebrate 100 years

Don't fence your graveyard, police tell Ahmadis

April 23, 2007

Industry News 04.23.07

Funerals held around the world Victims represented five continenets

Connected by their grief

Preferences on remembrances: How do you want to be memorialized?

Albion woodworker crafts pet caskets

True calling

MAN GRIEVES OVER THEFT FROM SISTER'S GRAVE AT ST. PAUL'S CEMETERY

The ghost who talks cake & tea

Edmonton split on mom's day grave service City offers 'E-Memories' service

Owner of area funeral home shows videos, releases doves

Freeze, i'm not dead

Cemetery project competes for grant from TV channels

Loyalhanna company forges bond with Arlington cemetery

Ore. county closing in on crematory

Ban on cardboard coffins lifted

Local demand for green burials is low

Burial plots are rare finds

S. Florida cemeteries search for burial space

Growth, Development put the Squeeze on Land for Cemeteries

Business hots up thanks to crematorium initiative

Pet cremation numbers rise

Five-ton ambulances answer 999 calls by supersized patients

Visitors return to New Orleans after Katrina

April 24, 2007

Industry News 04.24.07

Horse-drawn tradition resurfaces

Disaster planning group developed for Marshall County
Planners tasked with preparing for mass deaths.

Lawsuit filed over burial funds;
Grievance involves Madison cemetery

5-year sentence for theft of bronze cemetery vases

Coffin company chief Stabile pleads guilty

Burial plots in short supply

Winchester funeral home director sentenced for forgery conviction

Licensed funeral directors make difference

Jennings Funeral Homes bought by Peachtree City couple

Police investigate fish, pictures found in Yonkers grave

April 25, 2007

Industry News 04.25.07

Orthodox burial staged for the first time in 100 years - Patriarch Alexy II

The wisdom of 400 funerals

Military expects thousands to attend memorial for 8 slain soldiers

City of the forgotten dead

Visit war graves: Smyth (The Caneberra Times)

She created costumes for all occasions

The departed: Heddy Honigmann goes looking for Forever in Paris's Pere-Lachaise

Tragedy family 'picked coffins'

Good samaritan act completed after 47 years

Taipei cemetery to offer 'tree burials' for pets

Quincy says farewell to five children who 'have lifted us this week'

Venerable Raleigh funeral homes to merge

Funeral home plans expansion

Cemetery property to go on sale soon

NJ Licenses, fees, permits set

Family of woman killed in funeral procession sues

Veterans cemetery could become reality

Jogger Finds Dead Body Posed in Cemetery

Niece of Carvel ice cream founder wants body exhumed to check for foul play

Hearse humor: Did they die laughing?

Death Stocks: Prospering From the Aging American Population

April 26, 2007

Industry News 04.26.07

Ceremony honors bomb-disposal troops

Morticians Find Man Alive After Dublin Hospital Accidentally Declares Him Dead

Currents: Doctors for the dead

Funeral celebrant offers personal touch

Ready for last rites: KY veterans cemetery to be dedicated June 1

TN Bill designating cremation rights passes state House

New AZ crematorium delay: Judge extends permit restraining order in dispute

Military cemetery has fascinating history

30 Muslim graves vandalised

Cayman facing grave situation

Deal on cemetery plots is a no-go

Neighbors turn out to voice concerns about Eternal Hills plans

Family claims grave marker

April 27, 2007

Industry News 04.27.07

Man accused of robbing graves in Waterbury

Cemetery owner is facing charges

Forever loved: Pet crematory opens in Anderson

Greener pastures for the dearly departed

Woman gunned down at funeral

April 30, 2007

Industry News 04.30.07

Advocates urge Canadians to be green in death

Natural coffins the green way to go

The cost of dying: Should you prepay for funerals?

Consumer group compiles funeral price list

Cremation options now include recycled cardboard box at $195

Lynn Haven cemetery fees triple

Cities of the Dead' Bustle With Life

Caskets find second lives

24 notes, and a world of meaning

Museum to host a ghost walk at cemetery May 5

Co-op use human ashes to grit path

Funeral rites and popular culture

A Wedding at a Funeral Home?

A standard, conventional funeral is not the sole option for families

'Kickbacks' to funeral homes row ignites

Estonians exhume remains from Red Army memorial