Category: defaming funeral service

• NYSFDA, Spare Us the TikTok eClips

  

  Lately, the weekly eClips, sent by the NYSFDA, have contained more and more links to embarrassing articles by so-called viral sensations on TiKTok. The most recent article, about a mortuary student who “has lifted the lid” (this expression is gag-inducing) about repairing “injuries on deceased people” with clay (which is not used in actual practice) […]

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  April 9, 2022

  Antidote to Misinformation, defaming funeral service

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• A “Contemporary” Funeral Home

  

  We’ve noticed, recently, several funeral homes billing themselves as “modern” or “contemporary.” They claim to have a new way of doing things; that they are bringing a new awareness to death and making it less sad. Really!? Light and airy reposing rooms will not change the abject sorrow felt by a family whose daughter has […]

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  February 5, 2022

  Antidote to Misinformation, Care of the Dead, Death, defaming funeral service, Dying, Mourning, Sacred Rituals, Traditional Funeral

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• A Dying Business

  

  One upon a time, a young woman walked into a funeral home in Queens, New York. She needed an after-school job to earn some money, while she worked her way through college, and the funeral home was hiring. She had dreams of one day becoming a great writer. Well, if not a great one, at […]

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  May 13, 2021

  Alexandra Mosca, Care of the Dead, defaming funeral service, Female Funeral Directors, Funeral History, Funerals, Mortuary School, Mourning, Sacred Rituals, The Morte Girls, Traditional Funeral, Uncategorized

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• RIP Dr. Jacquie Taylor

  We were saddened to learn about the recent passing of Dr. Jacquie Taylor. Funeral service lost an excellent champion in her. An educator, who was also licensed as a funeral director, Dr. Taylor  truly “walked the walk and talked the talk” unlike so many others today. In 2013, I attended a continuing education seminar Dr. […]

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  November 24, 2019

  Alexandra Mosca, Antidote to Misinformation, Care of the Dead, Death, defaming funeral service, Female Funeral Directors, Jacquie Taylor, Melissa Johnson Williams, Uncategorized

  Death, Embalming, Funeral Director, Funeral Industry, Funerals, Interlopers, Mortuary School

• Five Things

  Five Things I’ve learned in my long career as a funeral director I was pleased to share my view of funeral service with Life. Death. Whatever., gleaned from the work I’ve done, the experiences of my colleagues, and the perspective of the thousands of families I’ve served over the years. Despite what you may read […]

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  June 4, 2019

  Alexandra Mosca, Death, death positive, defaming funeral service, Female Funeral Directors, Funerals, Grief, Sacred Rituals, Traditional Funeral, Uncategorized

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• How a Common Death Ritual Made It Harder to Mourn the Loss of My Mother ————-Say What!?

  How a Common Death Ritual Made It Harder to Mourn the Loss of My Mother We can barely contain our disgust at this article. In essence, the writer is complaining that the funeral home made her deceased mother look too good, and it has traumatized her. She writes: “I thought she was alive again. She […]

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  March 5, 2019

  Alexandra Mosca, Antidote to Misinformation, Care of the Dead, Death, defaming funeral service, Dying, Embalming, Female Funeral Directors, Funeral History, Funerals, Melissa Johnson Williams, Mourning, Sacred Rituals, Traditional Funeral, Uncategorized

• Green Burials and Responsible Reporting

  We submitted this piece to The New York Times @nytimes as an Op-Ed letter seven days ago and have never heard from them. We are publishing it here so our voices can be heard regarding this topic. Recently, The New York Times published an article: Green Burials: At the End of Life, Thinking Outside the […]

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  December 17, 2018

  Alexandra Mosca, Antidote to Misinformation, Care of the Dead, Cemeteries, Death, death positive, defaming funeral service, Doris Amen, Dying, Embalming, Female Funeral Directors, Funeral History, Funerals, Grief, Melissa Johnson Williams, Mourning, Sacred Rituals, The Morte Girls, Traditional Funeral, Uncategorized

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• 3 Myths About Green Burials: A Funeral Director’s Perspective

  In funeral parlance, ‘green burial’ may be the most hyped phrase around. References to this ‘new’ and seemingly popular type of disposition seem to be everywhere these days, particularly in the press. And since we, or a loved one, may be headed in that direction, we might have looked up the subject. Reading those stories […]

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  November 24, 2018

  Alexandra Mosca, Cemeteries, defaming funeral service, Funerals, Sacred Rituals, The Morte Girls, Traditional Funeral, Uncategorized, Visiting Cemeteries

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• Green Burials

  This is a well balanced article about the green burial movement. It provides the most realistic information I’ve seen on the subject. https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/08/10/what-does-going-green-mean-for-the-funeral-industry/

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  August 10, 2018

  Care of the Dead, Cemeteries, defaming funeral service, Embalming, Funerals, greenburials, Sacred Rituals, Traditional Funeral, Uncategorized, Visiting Cemeteries

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