by Legacy | Aug 25, 2016 | Industry, Legacy Insights
Article by: Linnea Crowther Linnea Crowther writes celebrity obituaries for Legacy.com, the global leader in online obituaries. After seeing dozens of Facebook posts early this year asking why so many celebrities were dying all of a sudden, she set out to determine...
by Legacy | Aug 23, 2016 | Community News
A legendary design firm, a corporate executive, and a Buddhist-hospice director take on the end of life. There’s an ugliness - an inelegance - to death that Paul Bennett gradually came to find unacceptable. It seems to offend him the way a clumsy,...
by Legacy | Aug 21, 2016 | Community News
I know the look really well. If you’re paying really close attention, I swear you could see the air escape from their mouths as their lips curl into a relieved smile. “I’m so glad I decided to do this” is what they normally say as they walk out...
by Legacy | Aug 18, 2016 | Community News
No sense in burying the lede. This week, after more than eight years of lively habitation in one of journalism’s more obscure corners, I’m making a final egress, passing on. Starting after Friday’s deadline (ha!) I am an ex-obit writer. Here’s...
by Legacy | Aug 16, 2016 | Community News
Merchandising and caskets. Do those two words even go in the same sentence together anymore? Through my conversations with funeral homes, I would argue that most funeral home owners and managers fall within two philosophies: a) those that believe casket merchandising...