March 2020

First Call Mortuary Services: Oregon mortuary workers brace for possible PPE shortage

Read original article CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon leaders and medical professionals have been vocal about the need for an increased supply of personal protective equipment for frontline workers like nurses, doctors, paramedics. Those who respond after a patient has died, though, have largely gone unrecognized. “We’re on the front lines. Our industry is…

All Veterans & All States Cremation: Funerals, grieving become private affairs in the era of coronavirus

Read original article By DAVID MIGOYA | [email protected] | The Denver Post For the better part of nearly two decades, Ken Reck has played the same 24 notes about 200 times a year – sometimes more frequently – without accompaniment and at times without audience. Each time was as important as the previous, each one to be as solemn…

Cremation Society of Minnesota: Cremate and wait: How COVID-19 is changing the way funeral homes do the business of life and death

Read original article By Jim Walsh | 03/27/2020 Over the past week, the obituary pages of area newspapers have become a haunting litany of “memorial service to be held at a later date,” “no services,” and “services canceled due to COVID-19.” To be sure, death and impending pandemic doom may be our new daily communion, but for funeral…

All Veterans Funeral and Cremation in the News: Memorial Day’s sea of flags will be missing from national cemeteries because of coronavirus

By DAVID MIGOYA | The Denver Post May 24, 2020 The sight of thousands of tiny American flags precisely pegged against rows of symmetrically aligned headstones in the nation’s national cemeteries has been a rite of each Memorial Day for as long as can be remembered. This year, that symphony of flags will not be seen, the…