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This Death Care Practitioner Uses Beauty and Storytelling to Craft Unique Celebrations of Life. Rite of Passage Funerals is a modern funeral home on the Gold Coast of Australia.  Founder Yasemin Trollope wants to reimagine the reality of de...

Inspiration from a Rap Legend Who Lived Both Large and Lovingly.Rapper DMX (given name: Earl Simmons) died suddenly at age 50, leaving behind a large family, a legacy of hard-hitting lyrics, and an unmistakable musical style. But aside from the trage...

A Funeral Industry Insider Who Helps Families Understand and Appreciate More Earth-Friendly Options.Lauren Carroll is a green funeral director at Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs, and co-founder at Deathwives, a death care collective...

What Happens When Two Creative Geniuses Join Forces to Build a Better Experience for Families Dealing with a Death?Today we’re talking to Keith Crawford and David Odusanya of Solace, an affordable direct cremation company serving Portland, Oregon, Se...

2020: A Year of Great LossThis has been a year of such widespread grief and so many difficulties for all of us. Hundreds of thousands have died from COVID-19, and others have died from the wide variety of causes that take away our loved ones each yea...

Funeral director Tamara “T” Bullock was born and raised in the South Bronx. She didn’t come to her career in death care via a family connection, but through a passion for service she discovered when she experienced loss several times in her own famil...