Herodotus, Harvard, and a History of Human Hides Ok, let’s be clear: nobody’s out here skinning people to turn into purses or stilettos or footballs for the sake of a death care blog post. We didn’t source info for this piece from YouTube channels detailing the practice of tanning human […] Read More
Stuffed Hearses & a History Mystery | 4M #131 Welcome to the hundred-and-thirty-first edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #131, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations in the week ahead. Bon appetit! It’s happening! Just one month after the […] Read More
LOS ANGELES — Five and a half months later, the joy courses through Bronny James’ every movement. Squeakers squeak and music thumps within a sleeping Galen Center this Jan. 3, and James’ mouth twists into an O as he pulls a jumper from the corner. Lenses watch him, patiently, from […] Read More
When Iowa’s brave and hardy Republicans venture Monday night into the arctic cold to cast the first presidential ballots of 2024, Richard Bender will be watching with special interest and a twinge of regret. Bender, 78, has been called the godfather of the Iowa caucuses, in recognition of his role […] Read More
Charles Munger helped build one of the greatest fortunes in U.S. history, but he often explained his success in terms that sounded deceptively uncomplicated. “Take a simple idea and take it seriously.” “Load up on the very few insights you have instead of pretending to know everything about everything at […] Read More
Soon after Jude Francis moved into his new three-story Tustin townhouse in 2012, he attended an open house at his famous neighbor across the street: the city’s twin blimp hangars. Seventeen stories tall, as wide as a football field and over 1,000 feet long, the wooden structures were built by […] Read More
They started their season in borrowed volleyball uniforms with only three weeks of practice. A few months later, they finished their season losing by just two points to the No.1-ranked team in their bracket. It’s not groundbreaking to see a girl playing football, but this school year they had their […] Read More
Colorado and the Complicated History of Funeral Regulations This in-depth investigative story originally appeared in Parting Stone’s Death Curious blog. By now everyone who watches the news or looks at social media is aware that Colorado is a state with more lenient funeral industry regulations and certification requirements than any […] Read More
A recent article in Smart Business Pittsburgh magazine featured the Death Care conglomerate Matthews International. Matthews is known in Death Care from Matthews Memorialization which includes the ability to supply to funeral homes and cemeteries products such as caskets, cremation equipment, and cemetery markers among a host of products. […] Read More
At Funeral Director Daily we hear about a lot of funeral homes that change hands. We can’t report on all of them, but some family funeral homes have such unique historical characteristics that we like to pass on the knowledge of those transactions just to keep the historical perspective […] Read More
The Riverside Historical Society will hold its annual Local History Book Fair and Silent Auction 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1, on the lower level of the Riverside Medical Clinic. Booksellers will include two former Press-Enterprise columnists — Dan Bernstein with his book “He Kept His Day Job: Fanfare for […] Read More
Lisa Deaderick | The San Diego Union-Tribune It was during the research for his dissertation and first book that Rudy Guevarra Jr. noticed something — he was hearing more and more people speaking Spanish while traveling in the Hawaiian Islands. His research came out of his own experience growing up both […] Read More
