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Here's a funeral alternative: Send your ashes into space

1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM +00:00
As cremation becomes more popular, one company is seeing an increased demand for sending a loved one's ashes to space When you pass away, there are many ways you can choose to be celebrated - from traditional funerals to being planted next to a tree to hav...
more »

Arizona Funeral Board shutting down this year, ADHS could absorb oversight

1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM +00:00
A new bill is looking to deregulate some of the licensing requirements around embalming and transfer oversight of Arizona's funeral-service industry to the state health department.
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Lampasas funeral director acquires Cove funeral home

1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM +00:00
Zach Carnley, a funeral director in Lampasas, has acquired a funeral home in Copperas Cove.
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Fact Check-Alkaline hydrolysis, or liquid cremation, does not mean human remains are ‘fed to the living'

1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM +00:00
By Reuters Fact Check 7 Min Read Alkaline hydrolysis is a form of flameless cremation where a human body can be liquified and turned into wastewater after death.
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‘Closure is a myth’: A school psychologist explains how to help students and teachers deal with grief after a school shooting

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Simply returning to a school where a shooting took place can be a struggle for many students.
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Q&A: Durango mortuary owner talks shop

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Q&A: Durango mortuary owner talks shop By Garret Jaros Herald Staff Writer Thursday, Mar 30, 2023 5:00 AM Dignity defines Ryan Phelps who says he talks with his ‘clients’ during embalming Ryan Phelps owns Hood Mortuary in Durango.
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Keeping their memory alive: Meaningful ways to honor your loved one

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Death is a part of everyone’s life.
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There Is No Blueprint for Grief

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The heartbreak in Nashville is unimaginable.
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Rethinking narratives around death and dying

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This hour, we’re looking at changes in the death and dying space Rethinking narratives around death and dying By Meg Dalton, Khalilah Brown Dean, Kevin Chang Barnum, Wayne Edwards, Catie Talarski Published March 29, 2023 at 12:11 PM EDT Listen • 49:00 JASO...
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How the universal feeling of grief lights up our brain

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In A Kelley Conversation, MTN’s Donna Kelley talks with Associate Professor of Psychology and Author Mary-Grances O’Connor about how the universal feeling of grief lights up our brain When someone we love dies, or we have an emotional loss or change, it ca...
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Memorial grows at The Covenant School as Nashville mourns shooting victims

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A motive for the shooting that killed six people, including three children, remains unknown CBS Mornings Memorial grows at The Covenant School as Nashville mourns shooting victims By David Begnaud, Analisa Novak March 29, 2023 / 8:38 AM / CBS News Nashvill...
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Scott Reeder | When I die, return me to the earth

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“They’ll make fun of me and give me a goofy name.” That was my mother’s reaction to the notion of her body being donated to a medical school for students to dissect.
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Cemetery a unique locale for home brewery

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Sham-Rock for Cancer to raise Relay funds Unfortunate events brought Jan Shoup and Lisa Anzalone together.
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Woman recounts difficulties in becoming female funeral director

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Today Some morning clouds should eventually break for some decent sunshine.
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Pierschbacher Funeral Home Purchases Winfield Funeral Home

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Pierschbacher Funeral Home acquired Winfield Funeral home in Knoxville last Thursday.
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My mom died while I was covering covid. It changed my views on grief.

April 01, 2023
Three years ago, I was sitting on the floor of my mother’s study, overwhelmed by the task of cleaning out her apartment.
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To help Earth’s future, people are getting buried like it’s 1860

April 01, 2023
Mia Zinn was a member of her middle school ecology club, had planted a reflection garden and had implored public officials to preserve a local woods, and when she became terminally ill, she wanted to become a tree.
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My mom died while I was covering covid. It changed my views on grief.

April 01, 2023
Three years ago, I was sitting on the floor of my mother’s study, overwhelmed by the task of cleaning out her apartment.
Read More

Q&A: Durango mortuary owner talks shop

March 31, 2023
Q&A: Durango mortuary owner talks shop By Garret Jaros Herald Staff Writer Thursday, Mar 30, 2023 5:00 AM Dignity defines Ryan Phelps who says he talks with his ‘clients’ during embalming Ryan Phelps owns Hood Mortuary in Durango.
Read More

‘Closure is a myth’: A school psychologist explains how to help students and teachers deal with grief after a school shooting

March 31, 2023
Simply returning to a school where a shooting took place can be a struggle for many students.
Read More

Fact Check-Alkaline hydrolysis, or liquid cremation, does not mean human remains are ‘fed to the living'

March 31, 2023
By Reuters Fact Check 7 Min Read Alkaline hydrolysis is a form of flameless cremation where a human body can be liquified and turned into wastewater after death.
Read More

Lampasas funeral director acquires Cove funeral home

March 31, 2023
Zach Carnley, a funeral director in Lampasas, has acquired a funeral home in Copperas Cove.
Read More

Arizona Funeral Board shutting down this year, ADHS could absorb oversight

March 31, 2023
A new bill is looking to deregulate some of the licensing requirements around embalming and transfer oversight of Arizona's funeral-service industry to the state health department.
Read More

Here's a funeral alternative: Send your ashes into space

March 31, 2023
As cremation becomes more popular, one company is seeing an increased demand for sending a loved one's ashes to space When you pass away, there are many ways you can choose to be celebrated - from traditional funerals to being planted next to a tree to hav...
Read More

Rethinking narratives around death and dying

March 30, 2023
This hour, we’re looking at changes in the death and dying space Rethinking narratives around death and dying By Meg Dalton, Khalilah Brown Dean, Kevin Chang Barnum, Wayne Edwards, Catie Talarski Published March 29, 2023 at 12:11 PM EDT Listen • 49:00 JASO...
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