by John Heald | Apr 28, 2016 | Industry
Those of us in the funeral profession know that much of the business is learned by experience – whether you started out young by helping with services in your family’s funeral home or discovered your calling to become a funeral director later in life. It’s a...
by Legacy | Apr 28, 2016 | Community News
Even before most major news outlets confirmed that Prince had died, mournful posts began filling my timeline. First, there was denial: “No. No. No,” a friend tweeted. “Not Prince, god dammit, not Prince,” wrote another. The other stages of...
by Legacy | Apr 27, 2016 | Community News
Edward Bixby, who operates the Steelmantown Cemetery green burial preserve in Woodbine, N.J., said that the typical motivation of a green burial customer has shifted over the past decade. He says it’s now a 50-50 split between customers who are interested...
by Legacy | Apr 22, 2016 | Community News
In the days and weeks immediately following their deaths, I never had to look far to tell a story or hear one. But all too soon, I hesitated to bring them up in conversation. Anecdotes I told my children seemed heavy or forced, and I didn’t want to make my...
by Legacy | Apr 20, 2016 | Community News
Since the first search engines began scouring the early Internet, webmasters have tried to figure out how to game the system to enable their content to show up at the top of search results. There, the first attempts at SEO, or search engine optimization, were founded...