As the new president of the National Funeral Directors Association, John O. “Jack” Mitchell IV has been keeping an eye on trends in the industry of death. The sixth-generation owner of the ...

Randy Hutchinson is president & CEO Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South. Planning a funeral can be very stressful and many people prefer to gather information over the phone before visiting a ...

CARRY ME HOME: Karla FC Holloway says her new book about African-American funeral practices must have been in her blood. But she never thought it would become a piece of her broken heart. She has ...

Few funeral homes are required to disclose funeral pricing information on their website, according to a new report. In 2016, the median expense for a funeral was $7,306, according to the National ...

The Victorian era formed many funeral customs and traditions. Phrases like "saved by the bell," "graveyard shift" and "dead ringer," as well as words such as "living room" and "undertaker," emerged ...

People looked on in horror last week when it was revealed that a funeral home in Allendale may have desecrated the body of a 6-foot-7 man to fit him into a regular sized casket. The thought of someone ...