By Scott McAfee. Any responsible business owner must constantly consider the security of his or her business, compensating for any gaps, learning new threats, and creating measures to protect against those threats. While it may not be pleasant to think of things that could threaten your cemetery, it is a necessary part of running the […]
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First California-based water cremation facility opens in Escondido
By Evan Noorani. ESCONDIDO, Calif. — The first flameless cremation facility for humans in the state of California is now open in San Diego County. White Rose Aqua Cremation in Escondido offers a completely water based, eco-friendly end of life. It combines water and an alkali solution to accelerate the decomposition process – saving 90 […]
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E-Commerce and Families: A Perfect Fit
By Patti Martin Bartsche. Even before COVID-19 upended our daily routines, there was little question that everything we do has increasingly been moving online. From the way we network to the way we get our news, online is the place to be – and shopping is no exception. Consider for a moment these facts: • […]
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Cemetery Management Software: The Future of Cemetery Technology
By Scott McAfee. Imagine the process of your day: waking up to an alarm on your smartphone, working at a computer at your desk, watching Netflix at night, etc. If you’re like most people, you use technology all day, every day, in one form or another. Technological advancements are practically inescapable, and they are constantly […]
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Cremation: A Brief History
By Melissa Petruzzi. The topic of cremation as a form of disposition yields a number of different responses. Many people still tend to think of an in-ground burial as the only burial method, but there are other types of burials. Cremation is currently the most popular form of disposition in America, and it has been […]
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Pet Death Care: Past, Present, and Future
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 death care a little bit differently today, one thing is clear: people value the service of pet aftercare. Pet cemeteries have been carving out their space in the death care […]
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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 one’s final resting place. Instead, they stroll through an oak and ponderosa forest set within more than a thousand acres of wilderness. Twenty acres of the wilderness is set aside […]
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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 Gardens of Memory (formerly Pisgah Gardens) off Hendersonville Highway, she found their marker barren. Linda and Ray’s daughter, Denise Gonsales, who lives outside of Savannah, Ga., brought the ornate, Christmas-themed […]
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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 their communities with kind, gentle, and compassionate death care services. Unfortunately, most are still using centuries-old techniques to record and manage records. Critical and historical data is still being managed […]
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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 practice. Businesses of all sizes are implementing cloud technology to reduce sunk costs, overhead, and physical space dedicated to computing. But the term is still widely misunderstood and the use […]
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