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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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 in pop culture as nefarious locations for villains and horror scenes. But a new wave of architecture spanning the globe is helping people connect with these sacred places and turn these spaces […]
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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 country’s declining birth rate, lack of available space and prices that have shot to some of the highest levels in recent memory. But one idea has truly taken off and has […]
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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 Cemetery. Each tells a history of the person and now a historic cemetery in Maribor, Slovenia is taking their tombstones to the next level with digital tombstones. The idea is fairly simple: […]
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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 open up in the United States and the first in the state of Hawaii. Hawaii Memorial Reefs constructs artificial reefs using concrete structures known as Reef Balls. These reef balls […]
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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 with each passing day. So what does one do? Well, the Memorial Necrópole Ecumênica, in Santos, Brazil solves this conundrum by going up, as the world’s tallest vertical cemetery. Inaugurated in […]
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