New CDC report says US life expectancy at an all-time high
According to latest report on life expectancy by the CDC (Mortality in the United States, 2012), Americans can now expect to live longer than ever ...
Category: Life & Death
Ebola Burial Teams Continue to Labor Under Extreme Conditions.
It has been two months since we first published an article on this blog about the brave people who are charged with burying those who ...
29-year old Brittany Maynard uses last days to increase focus on elective death
In a recent interview for People magazine, 29-year-old Brittany Maynard explained why she is planning to take her own life. To accomplish this, she and ...
Conflict over Casey Kasem’s body shows importance of funeral preplanning.
Despite having put in place the legal documents most recommended by legal experts: an advance directive and a surrogate healthcare decision-maker, the still unsettled fate ...
Coast Guard gives WWII vet a Viking funeral at sea
Did you know that it is possible to have a burial at sea? It's not as simple as launching your body off into your favorite ...
CDC issues Ebola guidelines for funeral homes.
On September 3o, 2014 the Centers for Disease Control confirmed that a patient in Dallas is infected with the Ebola virus. This is the first ...
Bonnie and Clyde and the undertaker.
If the notorious outlaw Bonnie Parker were alive, she would turn 104 today, October 1st, 2014.
Pet hospice movement improving options for animal end-of-life care.
Lucky for us, our pets are living longer. According to the 2013 Banfield State of Pet Health Report, today’s cats have gained an average of ...
Skeletons found holding hands after 700 years, proving love never dies
Who knows how this pair died, but whoever buried them must have known they were soul mates. Now THAT is true love!
Family of Connor Eckhardt works to educate others in wake of son’s death due to K2
On July 17, 2014, the family of 19-year-old Connor Eckhardt said goodbye in their own special way before Connor’s body was taken away so that ...
“Dying in America” report released
On Tuesday the Institute of Medicine released the results of its comprehensive study, Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End ...
Disturbing FBI investigation involves cadavers, body parts, and possible black market connections
Sounding much like the plot of an episode of CSI, the details of an FBI investigation into the body parts business are starting to unfold. So ...
Would you like fries with that funeral viewing?
There is no question that the funeral business is one that is steeped in tradition. So it’s natural that when a service such as drive-thru ...
How a broken heart can kill the elderly.
The medical community has known for a long time that a condition called a condition called takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or broken heart syndrome exists.
Who Needs to Visit a Torture Museum?
As we walked by, the sign out front invited us to visit the Museum of Medieval Torture Instruments. Who could pass that up? We’re in ...
