By Melissa Petruzzi. Since ancient times when Egyptians mummified and entombed their sacred cats, humans have been burying their pets. While we may handle pet […]
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More People Want a Green Burial, but Cemetery Law Hasn’t Caught Up
By Alex Brown. Visitors to the White Eagle Memorial Preserve in southern Washington won’t find rows of headstones, manicured lawns or pathways to a loved […]
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Cemetery Thieves Common At Christmas
By Matt McGregor. When Linda Petit took her husband, Ray, to see the floral arrangement on her parents’ gravestone on Sunday at the Blue Ridge […]
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Digitizing & Automating Your Cemetery Office
By Scott McAfee, Chief Operating Officer, CemSites Left behind in the technology era? There are more than 100,000 cemeteries in the U.S. Each proudly serving […]
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Is Cloud Computing Really Better For Business? Survey Says…
By Anna Kucirkova Cloud computing is an increasingly popular term, just as using the cloud for storage, applications, and business servers is an increasingly popular […]
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Architects bringing new life to the deceased
The idea that a cemetery, funeral home, crematoriums and morgues are considered creepy or spooky is not a new concept. They have been featured prominently […]
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Buddhist temple offers high-tech burial alternatives
As we all know, planning for your final resting place can be a difficult decision. In Japan, the decision is made even harder by the […]
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Cemetery using technology for digital tombstones
Humanity has always gone about memorializing the deceased with tributes to the person’s memory, from the Pyramids of Giza to the monuments at Arlington National […]
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Hawaii to open first Memorial Reef Site in Oahu
Richard Filanc, a resident of Oahu, Hawaii is opening up Hawaii Memorial Reefs in March 2017. This will be the second memorial reef operation to […]
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Outside–the–Box Cemeteries
As the world’s population grows, so too do cemeteries. The search for premium land suitable for burying a loved one is becoming more and more scarce […]
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