Casket producers around the world are feeling the impact of the coronavirus. Where many businesses have to shut their doors, casket producers have stepped up and increased production capacity to keep up with the demand. Funeral homes are running through…
France’s new law on end of life drugs will improve palliative care
Currently, end-of-life patients in pain have to be admitted to the hospital before being able to receive relieving sedative drug, Midazolam. New regulation will now allow general practitioners to admit the pain alleviating drug to patients. Within four months general…
Funeraire Paris 2019 Overview
Just outside the center of Paris, at the Parc des Exposition du Bourget convention center, the funeral industry comes together every other year to showcase new offerings and generate leads. The event lasts three days (Wednesday – Friday) and is…
Paris opens first green cemetery
Parisians will now be able to reduce their carbon footprints even after death: A 17,000-square-foot section with 150 green-burial plots has opened in the Southern suburb of Ivry-sur-Seine. It is part of the larger City of Paris Cemetery in Ivry-sur-Seine,…
