Tag: Funeral Industry

• 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

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  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, 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, defaming funeral service, Female Funeral Directors, Funerals, 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, Traditional Funeral

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• The Real Death Deniers

  Perhaps it’s a consequence of being on social media, but barely a day passes that we don’t read some nonsense article, post or tweet about funeral service. Shooting ashes into space, turning cremains into bullets (Seriously, With all the gun violence these days !?), mushroom suits, and so much more fill pages. Our colleagues who […]

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  July 19, 2018

  Alexandra Mosca, Antidote to Misinformation, Death, Funerals, Sacred Rituals, The Morte Girls, Traditional Funeral

  Funeral Director, funeral expert, Funeral Industry, funeralsmatter, The Morte Girls

• The Gratification of Visiting Graves

  

    In 2004, I traveled to Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery to do research for an article I was working on about the place. My trip there was also a pilgrimage of sorts, as the first monument I wanted to see was that of Gone With The Wind author, Margaret Mitchell. As a teen, I had read […]

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  May 7, 2018

  Alexandra Mosca, Cemeteries

  Funeral Industry