funeral directors

Funeral directors survive ‘surreal’ year with creativity and faith

By Elizabeth E. Evans — February 4, 2021
(RNS) — With safety precautions changing the way people mourn, as well as the sheer volume of COVID-19 deaths, the men and women who sometimes wryly call themselves ‘last responders’ have had a year like no other.

Months into COVID-19, funeral directors and clergy continue to innovate death care

By Alejandra Molina — July 10, 2020
(RNS) — Spurred by lockdowns, funeral homes, green burial conservations and houses of faith are innovating to adjust to a new normal of death care.

Louisiana monks score second win in bid to sell caskets

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — March 22, 2013
(RNS) A group of woodworking Louisiana monks is celebrating after a federal appeals court ruled they can sell simple handmade caskets – and local funeral directors can’t stop them.
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