funeral homes

West Virginia's attorney general says a funeral home should be found in contempt of court and its owners fined or jailed after missing a deadline to pay back thousands of dollars it collected in advance contracts for funeral expenses. Mr. Blue Inc., which does business in Mason, W. Va., as...

While feelings are mixed on whether or not the U.S. is recovering or still at risk are mixed, at least we can be reassured by the reliability of death and taxes. The latter, of course, is being made more certain by IRS efforts to catch tax-dodgers, while the former needs no help. Unfortunately, the...

It's not uncommon for a business to be sold with a sizable chunk of inventory included in the sale price. But if you're buying a funeral home, that's probably not what you're looking for.The Rev. Reginald Burrell and deacons from Northlake Church of Christ in Gary, Ind. purchased a building that...

Death is hard enough to deal with without the added insult of being taken advantage of by a funeral home. The Federal Trade Commission recently sent undercover inspectors into 104 funeral homes in seven states and just released a report that found that one in four (26) had significant violations of...

When I was in high school, I took a class titled "Death and Dying." In addition to learning about the grieving process and reading afterlife narratives, my class studied the ins and outs of the funeral industry. We inspected coffins, read Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death, hung out in...

We hope that you plan to spend the rest of your life joining us in our quest for bargains. But what about afterward? It's no secret that the cost of dying is rising with the rest of the economy. According to the National Funeral Director's Association (NFDA) the average cost of a funeral in 2004...