Category Archives: Professional Advice

Andrew J. Vitale, C.T. has been a grief specialist for more than three decades. As a certified thanatologist, Vitale studies the science of death, dying and bereavement including medical, physical, psychological and spiritual perspectives. This professional focus includes the psychological … Continue reading →

Ingrid Tegner has been offering poetry therapy, or training and mentoring poetry facilitators, for several decades. After completing a two-year training at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. and obtaining a Master of Social Work from the University of Maryland, … Continue reading →

Dr. Thaddeus Pope is a law professor and bioethicist whose work focuses on end-of-life options and patient rights. He teaches at Mitchell Hamline University’s Health Law Institute and received a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2020 to research Canadian and American … Continue reading →

In 2001, the Mark Morris Dance Group opened a new purpose-based building in Brooklyn, New York. The company wanted to serve their immediate community, and they did that through Dance for PD, a program that teaches dance to those affected … Continue reading →

Cremation is seeing a digital transformation behind the imagination of a former New York ad exec. J.G. Sandom spent almost 40 years in the advertising business before he started his latest venture, Cremstar, in 2014. He founded one of the … Continue reading →

  Six years ago, Jim Bates and his brother drove their father’s body 355 miles from Arlington, Texas, to Tulia, Texas, where he was from, to bury him alongside his wife. As director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of North … Continue reading →