Category: Female Funeral Directors

• 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

  A dying business, Alexandra Kathryn Mosca, Alexandra Mosca, death and the city, Death Expert, deathcare expert, famousfuneraldirectors, Female Funeral Directors, funeral blog, funeral expert, Funeral Industry, influentialfuneraldirectors, The Morte Girls, womeninfuneralservice

• Our Latest Interview

  In our recent interview with Authority Magazine, we reiterate the importance of funeral service & how we continue to uphold cherished traditions. Clearly, the Covid pandemic underscored (in a major way) what any funeral director can tell you: #funeralsmatter.

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  December 29, 2020

  Alexandra Mosca, Doris Amen, Female Funeral Directors, Green-Wood Cemetery, The Morte Girls, Traditional Funeral, Uncategorized

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• Moonrise and the Morte Girls

  

  Last night, the Morte Girls attended Moonrise, a most unique event at Green-Wood Cemetery. It was a two mile stroll through the grounds, after dark, on a perfect fall evening . Along the way, we encountered performance artists stationed in and around some of Green-Wood’s many notable mausoleums and monuments. Food stations, too, were available. […]

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  October 2, 2020

  Alexandra Mosca, Cemeteries, Doris Amen, Female Funeral Directors, Green-Wood Cemetery, The Morte Girls, Visiting Cemeteries

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• I Want to Watch

  An essential component of our role as funeral directors is to maintain the sanctity of our work and protect the privacy of those in our care. Something that continues to trouble me is the prurient interest some have in the most private part of funeral service. “I want to watch? Can I?” It is an […]

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  July 31, 2020

  Alexandra Mosca, Care of the Dead, Embalming, Female Funeral Directors, Sacred Rituals, The Morte Girls, Uncategorized

  Care of the Dead, Embalmer, Embalming, Female Funeral Directors, Mortuary School, The Morte Girls, Viewing the Dead

• 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

  Alexandra Kathryn Mosca, Death, Embalming, Female Funeral Directors, Funeral Director, Funeral Industry, Funerals, Mortuary School, Sacred Rituals, The Morte Girls, Traditional Funeral, Viewing the Dead

• 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

• 6 Important Facts We Can Learn From the Funeral of President George H.W. Bush

  This post originally appeared on sixtyandme.com 6 IMPORTANT FACTS WE CAN LEARN FROM THE FUNERAL OF PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH

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  January 20, 2019

  Alexandra Mosca, Cemeteries, Death, Embalming, Female Funeral Directors, Funeral History, Funerals, Melissa Johnson Williams, Mourning, Sacred Rituals, Uncategorized

• Madame CJ Walker

  By Melissa Johnson Williams Madame CJ Walker was a remarkable African American woman, a distinguished early 1900’s self made business woman. @Suntimes article about the sale of her estate, Villa Lewaro led me to look at her biography. She is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, NYC.

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  December 23, 2018

  Female Funeral Directors, Melissa Johnson Williams, The Morte Girls, 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

  Care of the Dead, Green Burial, The Morte Girls