Bill would create Colorado’s first license to be funeral home director

After nearly 200 bodies were found stacked and rotting in a Colorado funeral home, lawmakers have proposed bills to overhaul the state’s threadbare funeral home regulations, which failed to prevent a string of gruesome cases — from sold body parts to fake ashes. The cases have shattered hundreds of families. Many learned that their loved … Read more

Colorado should finally license funeral home workers, regulators say

Colorado regulators recommended the state once again license funeral home workers in light of recent egregious abuses in the industry. In a 51-page report sent to the state legislature last week, the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies said, “It is clear that the public is harmed by the general lack of regulation of funeral service … Read more

Man questions China funeral home for charging different cremation prices for ‘luxury’ furnaces with tailor-made requests

A funeral home in China offered different prices for their cremation services based on the quality of the furnaces they used during the burial process, sparking controversy in China. An unidentified man in Hebei province in northern China shared a video on December 19 exposing a local funeral home that designated separate queues for collecting … Read more