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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
    Alexandra Kathryn Mosca, Doris Amen, famousfuneraldirectors, Green-Wood Cemetery, The Morte Girls
  • Post Pandemic Funeral Service – Can We Find Some Normalcy?

    As the winter of 2020 turned to spring, the death toll from Covid-19 seemed insurmountable. For funeral directors, it was the darkest and most challenging time we’ve ever faced. In an industry built on personal contact and a deep sense of tradition, we could count on neither. “The idea of not being able to do […]

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    August 1, 2020
    Alexandra Mosca, COVID-19, Funerals, Sacred Rituals, Traditional Funeral, Uncategorized
    Alexandra Kathryn Mosca, COVID, Danny Jefferson, Funeral Industry, funeralsmatter, John Herzig, Pandemic, Pat Megaro, The Morte Girls
  • 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
  • A Funeral Home Director’s View of the Pandemic

    A Funeral Home Director’s View of the Pandemic In this article I wrote for Next Avenue, three seasoned, and respected, NYC funeral directors shared their thoughts and experiences with me. They were hard to hear, and even harder to write about, but such is the reality in these dark days. Funeral directors are doing all […]

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    April 27, 2020
    Alexandra Mosca, COVID-19, Death, Sacred Rituals, Uncategorized
    Alexandra Kathryn Mosca, COVID, famousfuneraldirectors, femalefuneraldirector, Funeral Director, Funeral Industry, influentialfuneraldirectors, Next Avenue, womeninfuneralservice
  • 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
  • How to Write Condolence Notes: 8 Tips That Might Come In Handy

    This post originally appeared on sixtyandme.com HOW TO WRITE CONDOLENCE NOTES: 8 TIPS THAT MIGHT COME IN HANDY

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    October 23, 2019
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  • 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
  • Fake Funeral News

    The funeral as we know it is becoming a relic — just in time for a death boom blared the Washington Post headline. Whoever wrote this garbage must have scoured the depths of kook-dom. This article bears no resemblance to what funeral directors do on a daily basis. Perhaps if newspapers interviewed actual, experienced funeral […]

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    April 18, 2019
    Antidote to Misinformation, Funerals, Grief, Mourning, Sacred Rituals, Traditional Funeral, Uncategorized
    famousfuneraldirectors, Funeral Director, Funeral Industry, Funeral Service, funeralsmatter
  • More about Madame CJ Walker

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/stories/articles/2014/4/7/madam-cj-walker-hair-care-millionaire?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_campaign=antiques_2019&linkId=100000005467375

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    March 26, 2019
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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
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