Death customs

Eternal Friends Home Niche Offers Pet Owners a New Way to Memorialize the Loss of Their Beloved Pets and Safekeep the Pet's Ashes

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Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Death customs, Cremation, Fire, Incineration, Pet, PETS, Ecological niche, Academic disciplines, Natural environment, Articles

With three model sizes available, the niche can accommodate up to 12 urns with memorialization space to engrave up to 12 pet names.

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  • With three model sizes available, the niche can accommodate up to 12 urns with memorialization space to engrave up to 12 pet names.
  • Gerardo G. Garcia, President/CEO of Eternal Friends Home Niche, said the niche allows all pet owners to remember their pet(s) in a personal and intimate way.
  • "Pets become part of our families, our pets see us through thick and thin, and when they pass, we need to memorialize their lives the best way possible.
  • Unfortunately, there were few products available to memorialize out pets and specially properly safekeep their cremated remains.

Turning To Tradition: More Than A Quarter Of Americans Embrace Religion In Funeral Planning Post-COVID

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Thursday, July 29, 2021
Death customs, Rituals, Funeral, Cremation, Traditions, Articles

According to this year's findings, 28% of Americans report stronger personal faith because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • According to this year's findings, 28% of Americans report stronger personal faith because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • As of last year, there was an overall increase in the number of Americans who feel religion is a very important component of a funeral.
  • This is in stark contrast to the last decade; in 2012, almost half of Americans over age 40 viewed religion as an important component of a funeral, dropping to 35.4% by 2019.
  • However, despite this embrace of more traditional elements for funerals, cremation rates continue to climb, indicating Americans are more comfortable than ever blending tradition with modern preferences.

Eterneva Announces $10 Million Series A to Further Invest in Diamond Journey Experience

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Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Retail, Luxury, Technology, Other Retail, Other Technology, Specialty, Minerals, Crystallography, Materials, Death customs, Economic geology, Emotions, Grief, Undertaking, Mourning, Diamond

Consumer technology pioneer Eterneva announced the end of a brand new oversubscribed $10 Million Series A funding round this week.

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  • Consumer technology pioneer Eterneva announced the end of a brand new oversubscribed $10 Million Series A funding round this week.
  • Eterneva families have already remarked that Eterneva's diamond process helps them transform acute grief into acceptance, and mourning into a celebration of life."
  • Eterneva also plans to use the funds from this round to continue pushing the diamond journey experience forward, including funeral home and pet aftercare channel programs going nationwide.
  • Beyond providing a beautiful way to memorialize, Eterneva provides a participatory experience around the diamond creation journey - designed to bring grievers brightness and healing.

Death Care Services Global Market Opportunities and Strategies to 2030: COVID-19 Impact and Recovery - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Monday, July 12, 2021
Other Consumer, Other Health, Consumer, Health, Managed care, Death customs, Death care industry in the United States, Articles, Market segmentation, Funeral director, Funeral, Marketplace, Demography

The "Death Care Services Global Market Opportunities and Strategies to 2030: COVID-19 Impact and Recovery" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

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  • The "Death Care Services Global Market Opportunities and Strategies to 2030: COVID-19 Impact and Recovery" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • The death care services market is segmented by type into funeral homes and funeral services, and cemeteries and crematories.
  • The funeral homes and funeral services market was the largest segment of the death care services market segmented by type, accounting for 72.6% of the total in 2020.
  • The global death care services market is highly fragmented, with small number of global players operating in the market.

Amara Finance Completed a Million Dollar Seed Round Funding

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, Cross-platform software, Decentralized finance, Ethereum, Polkadot, Amara, Cemeteries, Death customs

As the Polkadot parachain slot auction heats up, some ecological landing projects have entered the public view and attracted unprecedented attention; Amara is one of them.

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  • Currently, Amara is financing its strategic private equity round; a new round of financing news will be released at a suitable time.
  • Amara is a one stop application developed on Acala Network focusing on value capturing, and it concentrates on the Polkadot DeFi ecological increment market.
  • Amara proposed its personal asset cross chain protocol, hoping to introduce more assets into Polkadot ecology, realizing the expansion of the new DeFi boundary.
  • If the loan is the goal of the first phase of Amara, finance is the goal of the second phase.

Everdays, Now Available In Denver, Offers Better Options for End of Life Preparation

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Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Death customs, Funeral, Cremation, Articles, Human behavior, Funeral Rule

But oddly, less than 9% of people in Denver have made their arrangements ahead of time.

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  • But oddly, less than 9% of people in Denver have made their arrangements ahead of time.
  • The overwhelming result before now had been to do nothing," said Mark Alhermizi, Everdays Founder & CEO.
  • Everdays' unique packages are available through a robust network of the best funeral service providers in each market across the country.
  • Everdays is the first national, direct-to-consumer company to offer a simple, helpful way to buy your own funeral or cremation 100% online.

The Living Urn Expands Its Product Offering For Funeral Homes

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Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Death customs, Urn, Visual arts, Culture, Human behavior, Cremation, Uniform Resource Name, Burial, Funeral

This includes personalization options for The Living Urn, Eco Scattering Urns, Eco Burial Urn, and Eco Water Urn.

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  • This includes personalization options for The Living Urn, Eco Scattering Urns, Eco Burial Urn, and Eco Water Urn.
  • Mark Brewer, President of Biolife, LLC, commented, "We're excited to expand our product offering with the thousands of funeral homes we work with in North America.
  • A major part of this expansion includes urn customization options, which are in high demand by families across the country.
  • Its growing market leading product offering includes the patented Living Urn, the leading bio urn and planting system designed to grow a tree with cremated remains, The Living Urn Indoors/Patio, the Eco Scattering Urn, a unique bamboo urn for scattering ashes, the Eco Water Urn, a proprietary urn that floats and gracefully frees ashes in water, the Eco Burial Urn, a special bamboo burial or traditional decorative urn, and Flow the Ice Urn, a patented urn made from a block of ice.

The Ultimate Gravesite Virtual Visitation. AFTRental provides the opportunity to rent the camera, widening accessibility for virtual visitation

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Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Death customs, Cemetery, Loved Ones

With many factors preventing families from visiting their loved ones' resting places, AFTR provides solutions with their GroundCam and MountCam cameras and accompanying app.

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  • With many factors preventing families from visiting their loved ones' resting places, AFTR provides solutions with their GroundCam and MountCam cameras and accompanying app.
  • Individuals interested in trying AFTRental can head to http://www.aftr.live/rental to find out if this service is available at their loved ones' cemetery.
  • "The temporary placement eases our maintenance concerns while still allowing us to provide virtual visitation for our families."
  • "We came up with AFTRental to make our services more accessible to everyone, no matter their personal circumstances or cemetery policies."

Pandemic Has Changed the Way Americans Mourn

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Monday, May 10, 2021
Death customs, Mourning, Consumer behaviour, Funeral, Cemetery, Articles, Human behavior

b'PHOENIX, May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- As a result of the global pandemic, consumers have experienced new ways of mourning the loss of their friends and family, and that has permanently changed the way they mourn, this according to The Foresight Companies 2021 Funeral and Cemetery Consumer Behavior Study.

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  • b'PHOENIX, May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- As a result of the global pandemic, consumers have experienced new ways of mourning the loss of their friends and family, and that has permanently changed the way they mourn, this according to The Foresight Companies 2021 Funeral and Cemetery Consumer Behavior Study.
  • "The winners over the last year were those funeral home and cemetery operators who were flexible, consultative, and adapted to changing consumer behaviors.
  • "The future is bright for those businesses who adapt and embrace these changes and act as true Last Responders.
  • For additional information on SoCal Approach, visit www.socalapproach.com .\nView original content to download multimedia: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pandemic-has-changed-the-way-ame...\n'

Death Tech Pioneer Parting Stone Closes $1.3 Million in Funding Round

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Los Alamos County, New Mexico, Geography of New Mexico, Death customs, National Register of Historic Places, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, National Register of Historic Places in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States Department of Energy national laboratories, University of California, Parting stone, Parting, Urn

Parting Stone addresses the core problem with a new category of human remains.

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  • Parting Stone addresses the core problem with a new category of human remains.
  • For each cup of cremated remains, Parting Stone\'s service returns one cup of solidified remains.
  • Human remains solidification costs $595, dogs $295, and cats $245.\nParting Stone offers the first complete alternative to ashes in the form of solidified remains.
  • Founded in 2019 in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratories, Parting Stone was honored by Fast Company\'s World Changing Ideas Award (2020) and the KIP Award for death care industry innovation.