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  • The Journey Begins

    Alexandra Kathryn Mosca, Doris V. Amen, and Melissa Johnson Williams are three well-known and respected names in funeral service.

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    March 11, 2018
    Alexandra Mosca, Antidote to Misinformation, Care of the Dead, Cemeteries, Death, Female Funeral Directors, Funeral History, Funerals, Sacred Rituals, Traditional Funeral, Uncategorized
    Alexandra Kathryn Mosca, Melissa Johnson Williams, The Morte Girls
  • Because That’s the Way We’ve Always Done It

    Because That’s the Way We’ve Always Done It

    Yesterday, I was chatting with a colleague I had not seen in some time. She comes from a long line of funeral directors, one of which was her grandmother, and was married to a popular funeral director for many years until his death. She’s a busy funeral director, and rarely uses social media. But she […]

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    August 2, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Death Expert, Funeral Industry, funeralsmatter, The Morte Girls, Traditional Funeral
  • Are You Thinking of Hiring a Funeral Photographer?

    Are You Thinking of Hiring a Funeral Photographer?

    Today, photographing the dead is making a comeback. But this time it’s not only the deceased who are being photographed – it’s the entire funeral service. Candid shots of the somber rituals, loved ones embracing, mourners comforting one another, are all captured with empathy, and discretion by professional photographers. Duane Knight is one of the […]

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    June 10, 2022
    Funerals
    Alexandra Kathryn Mosca, Death Expert, Duane Knight, Funeral Industry, Funeral Photography, The Morte Girls
  • What Happens To Cremated Remains Thereafter?

    What Happens To Cremated Remains Thereafter?

    When a New York funeral home closed its door a few years ago, it found itself in the midst of a moral dilemma it had never bargained for. There, on its shelves, were more than 275 boxes of cremains never picked up by the families of the deceased. Some dated back 100 years. Legally, it […]

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    April 18, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Alexandra Kathryn Mosca, Cremains, Cremation, The Morte Girls
  • What You Need To Know When Considering a Home Funeral

    What You Need To Know  When Considering a Home Funeral

    In 1911, when newspaper publisher and journalist Joseph Pulitzer died, he was waked in the library of his Manhattan home. The room was filled with floral tributes and the furniture arranged for the assembly of mourners. Throughout the morning, family, friends, and employees came to pay their respects to the journalistic icon who reposed in […]

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    April 16, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Alexandra Kathryn Mosca, Funeral Industry, funeralsmatter, Home Funerals, The Morte Girls
  • DOA -RIP

    For a brief time, when I was a young funeral director, I had license plates on my car which read DOA-RIP. Admittedly, I thought they were clever and set me apart. The plates garnered mention in a few newspapers, and other funeral directors who read about –or saw–them were not amused. In fact, they chided […]

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    April 13, 2022
    Uncategorized
    deathhappens, Female Funeral Directors, Female Funeral Directors., Funeral Industry, The Morte Girls
  • NYSFDA, Spare Us the TikTok eClips

    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
    Female Funeral Directors, Funeral Director, Funeral Industry, funeralsmatter, Mortuary School, nysfda, The Morte Girls
  • A “Contemporary” Funeral Home

    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, Sacred Rituals, Traditional Funeral
    contemporaryfuneralhome, famousfuneraldirectors, Funeral Director, Funeral Industry, funeralsmatter, influentialfuneraldirectors, modernfuneralhome, The Morte Girls
  • Sure, Let’s Dumb it Down Some More

    Sure, Let’s Dumb it Down Some More

    Last spring, the New York State Funeral Directors Association sent licensed NY State funeral directors a survey about creating a new –and unlicensed –position: funeral director’s assistant. When the survey responses were tallied, the results showed a majority against creating such a position. Seemingly, that was not the desired result. So, we were all asked […]

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    November 7, 2021
    The Morte Girls
    Death Expert, famousfuneraldirectors, Funeral Industry, Funeral Service, influentialfuneraldirectors, nysfda, The Morte Girls
  • We Compost Trash, Not Our Mothers

    We Compost Trash, Not Our Mothers

    The New York State Legislature will soon vote on whether composting (like we do with our kitchen waste) of human remains will become legal. If it passes (sadly, that seems likely), New York will become the third state to allow this desecration. The Morte Girls want to go on record as to our disgust. The […]

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    June 4, 2021
    The Morte Girls, Traditional Funeral
    Alexandra Mosca, Care of the Dead, composting, Death Expert, Funeral Industry, funeralbusinessexpert, funeraldirectorexpert, funeralindustryexpert, funeralserviceexpert, funeralsmatter, The Morte Girls
  • A Dying Business

    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, 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
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