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Tag Archives: Funeral Homes
SevenPonds Helps You Shop Funeral Services
Four tips to guide your decisions when selecting cremation services
Are the details of shopping funeral services a mystery? Today I present four tips to help you sort through your options and make better-informed decisions when shopping funeral providers for cremation services: 1 What if I only want to purchase … Continue reading
What to Do When Someone Dies
Ten Tips Above and Beyond Typical Funeral Arrangements
Everyday at SevenPonds we are working hard to research and expand our content to arm our readers with more information, guidance and choices on what to do when someone dies. Our daily deep dive allows a wide knowledge base of … Continue reading
Posted in Sharing Suzette
Tagged Celebrants, Celebrity Death, Consumer Funeral Alliance, Cremation, Cremation Retailer, Crematorium, Death and Dying, Death and Loss, Disposition, Disposition Services, Embalming, environmental impact, Funeral Arrangements, Funeral home, Funeral Homes, Healing Process, Life Celebrations, Memorial Service, Natural Death Care, Purchasing Cremation, Shopping Disposition, The Funeral Rule, What to Do When Someone Dies, When Someone Dies
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What is an Undertaker? An Interview with Patrick McNally: Part One
"The Daily Undertaker" tells all
Today, SevenPonds is speaking with Patrick McNally, the outspoken and creative funeral director behind the blog The Daily Undertaker, which explores ritual and art surrounding death and dying. In this first installment of our interview, Patrick reveals his honest insight into the funeral … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Advice
Tagged Funeral Homes, Funeral Industry, Personalized Ritual, Promession, The Daily Undertaker
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The Detroit Triangle of Death Changes
How cryonics, aid-in-dying, and the state of the funeral trade came to be known
The passing of Jack Kevorkian on Friday was particularly profound for me; not only because I hold a special place in my heart for the issue he championed, aid-in-dying — but also because Kevorkian resided in Michigan, near my … Continue reading
Posted in Sharing Suzette
Tagged Aid in Dying, Cryonics, Funeral Homes, Funeral Industry, Funeral Trade, Kevorkian, Robert Ettinger, Thomas Lynch
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