How businesses can manage bad online reviews
Businesses don’t have the luxury of ignoring bad online reviews anymore. Bad reviews turn away…
Help digitize WWI burial records
World War I enthusiasts started a project to create one of the best resources available…
Spain bans the opening of body bags
To prevent any further contagion from spreading, Spain has proactively banned the opening of body bags. Once the body bag is closed it can no longer be opened and the deceased cannot be removed from it. The funeral director places…
How to offer great drive-in or drive-through funeral services
Help the bereaved celebrate the life of the deceased by creating unique and special services that allow for them to be present and in accordance with the lockdowns and isolation mandates. Creating services that are accessible via vehicle and allow…
The South African Cemeteries Association is urging municipalities to prepare
The South African Cemeteries Association (SACA) calls out the local government to make plans for worst-case scenarios. South Africa currently has the largest number of coronavirus cases in Africa and is attempting to curb the rising number of infections through…
UK National Health Service (NHS) runs out of body bags
Japan uses transparent body bags for families to say their final goodbyes to loved ones
In Kobe, Japan, the local government has ordered transparent body bags for families who want a viewing of those who died of COVID-19. The transparent bags, opposed to the opaque white bags that most hospitals use, might give some families…
Concerns from Thailand that a dead body has transmitted the coronavirus
The Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine has released a letter with convincing information affirming death care professionals suspicions that the virus is still active in the dead. Won Sriwijitalai, of Bangkok’s RVT Medical Center, and Viroj Wiwanitkit, of China’s…
The global rise of car accessible funeral services
Deaths caused by COVID-19 are forcing funeral home workers to think outside the box. How can they provide comfort to their clients when all the traditional methods are no longer possible due to mandated isolation policies? To help families and…
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