Video biographies are the hottest commodities in the death-care industry these days. Played at funerals, posted to the web, they give our lives an eternal place in cyberspace
Martin Miller, Los Angeles Times / Calgary Herald
Dying is easy, the death-care industry is hard.
That’s the grim news from the International Cemetery and Funeral Association, a trade group representing some 6,500 cemeteries, funeral homes and crematories, that gathered here recently. For four days, about 500 conventioneers somberly listened to the gospel delivered by a host of prophets: Prepare for the future or perish, so to speak.