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Behind the Scene of the Entrepreneur Invasion
By Micheal Bradley for Main Line Today, May 2014 Rachel Zeldin has worked for a global financial-services company and isn’t a naturally shy person. Even so, she confesses to being a little intimidated at one particular business meeting last February. She didn’t doubt the quality of her product, I’m Sorry to Hear, a website that ...
Continue ReadingThe Business of Death: An Infographic
The team at Best Medical Degrees put together this great info graphic on the business of death. Learn what the World Death Rate is per year, day, hour, minute, and second. Also learn the most popular methods of disposal and the most common "alternatives" in this visual representation of the business ...
Continue ReadingWho Has The Legal Right to Arrange a Funeral
By Josh Slocum, Executive Director Funeral Consumers Alliance The question of who has the legal rights to arrange a funeral comes up surprisingly often. Conflicts between family members and interested parties over who has the legal right and precedence to make funeral arrangements for a person are sadly common. Here ...
Continue ReadingLower Makefield woman establishes 'imsorrytohear.com' to help with funeral planning
By Petra Chesner Schlatt for Bucks Local News When someone passes away, loved ones are grief-stricken. They must process their feelings and begin to deal with a future without the recently deceased. They also have to deal with the present, and many don’t know how. Entrepreneur Rachel Zeldin knows how ...
Continue ReadingGiving Yourself a Basic Education About Funeral Planning Now
By Judith Johnson for the Huffington Post If you had to plan a funeral for a loved one tomorrow, would you know what to do and what not to do? Most of us are woefully unprepared when faced with this task and must do so while grieving the loss of ...
Continue ReadingHow to Travel With & Mail Cremated Remains
If you are considering mailing or traveling with cremated remains, commonly referred to as "cremains", this blog will give you an overview of how to properly mail the cremated remains of your loved one to ensure they make it to their destination as smooth as possible. In the USA, there ...
Continue ReadingDeath Over Dinner
It has become apparent in the recent months that talking about death is trendy. That's right, TRENDY. From Death Cafes to new end-of-life planning websites (too many to list here) to Death Over Dinner, the most recent addition to the global movement to talk about death before it is too ...
Continue ReadingWhat do I do? It's kind of weird...
By Mark Eyerly for Drexel's Market Street Publication If the hearses outside the hotel weren’t enough to remind Rachel Zeldin that she turned her life upside down, her fellow vendors in the exhibit hall at the Pennsylvania Funeral Directors Association drove the point home. Casket manufacturers. Embalming fluids salesmen. Cremation ...
Continue ReadingThe Golden Girls Plan a Funeral - A Humorous Take on a Serious Topic
Ready for some funeral humor? Watch this throw-back as Rose, Dorothy, Blanche, and Sophia make arrangements for putting a "frenemy" to rest. As is in the intended nature of a classic sitcom, hopefully these funeral clips offer a little bit of humor on the traditionally dark topics of death and funerals.
Continue ReadingHow Much Does It Cost to Die? The Answer Might Surprise You...
Une Belle Vie released this helpful infographic on the true cost of death. The infographic illustrates how much funerals, memorials, cremations and other death care options costs have risen from 1960 to 2010. It also provides the breakdown cost between burials and cremations and their impact on the environment. According ...
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