Faith leaders grapple with funerals amid global pandemic April 02, 2020 -being of others. Randy Anderson, president-elect of the National Funeral Directors Association, said his group has...
DoD working to get 100,000 body bags in anticipation of increasing coronavirus deaths April 02, 2020 too, according to Jimmy Olson, who heads the National Chapter of the Funeral Directors Association. Olson told CNN that...
I’m a funeral director. The pandemic has made saying goodbye painfully lonely. April 01, 2020 . My funeral home often serves families who opt for cremation or “green burials,” without embalming, metal caskets or concrete...
How Funeral Homes Are Adapting During Coronavirus: 'It's A Very Different Way Of Doing Business' March 26, 2020 our community." Local funeral directors are guiding people through those tough decisions. Ken Cahall operates three...
Grief amid the pandemic: Live-streamed funerals, canceled services and mourning left ‘unfinished’ March 23, 2020 them with strictly limited access, broadcast them online or record them to replay later. Bryant Hightower, a funeral...
Virtual memorials and no hugs: The funeral industry prepares for coronavirus March 23, 2020 a Brooklyn-based funeral director. Cunningham, who specializes in green funerals, has been researching alternatives to in-person...
Life, and death, go on with new policies for funeral services due to coronavirus March 21, 2020 family and making services available to others via live video streaming. Ed Gamble, owner and funeral director at Gamble...
Funeral Homes Change Their Practices In Reponse to Coronavirus March 20, 2020 challenges for funeral homes. John Wenig, a spokesman for the National Funeral Directors Association and owner...
When a pandemic changes the way Georgians mourn March 20, 2020 in Douglasville and Villa Rica and a spokesperson for the National Funeral Directors Association, which represents more than...
Funerals, grieving in Chicago, elsewhere delayed by coronavirus March 20, 2020 and friends services and shiva will be private.” Funeral director Mindy Botbol crafted that wording with families at...