The ‘COVID’ model is a simple casket made from an economic wood, without any detailed carvings, and glass viewing pains. Chile, which is currently a hotspot for the coronavirus, has stepped up with aggressive government regulations to get control of…
São Paulo exhumes remains to create space for corona victims
São Paulo’s municipal funeral service plans on exhuming human remains of people that have been buried for more than three years to free up space for coronavirus victims. To give families closure and protect frontline workers from being surrounded by…
São Paulo creates new public mausoleums to find space for coronavirus victims
Latin America is emerging as a new hotspot for the coronavirus. To cope with the extreme numbers of deaths, São Paulo is building mausoleums with an estimated 13,000 burial plots. With over 200,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and nearly 14,000…
Colombian innovation born out of the darkness around hospital bed and coffin shortages
Inspired to help prevent any more tragedies around coffin and hospital bed shortages, Rodolfo Gómez got creative and invented a multipurpose cardboard hospital bed that, if needed, could be turned into a coffin. The world was shocked when the news…
Major Brazilian city almost out of caskets
A 400% increase of deaths has left unprepared death care professionals in the Brazilian jungle city Manaus stranded. Forcing families to bury their dead in mass graves. Eyes are shifting towards Brazil as it becomes the epicenter of the coronavirus…
Funeral and cemetery costs are driving the Argentina cremation market
Argentina is a country steeped in heritage. This can be seen in the way of life, the government and the traditions, until recently that is. The way Argentinians are dealing with death is evolving quickly, due to the cost implications. …
