Funeral Industry

The business of death (JoongAng Daily)

16 May 2008

Korea lacks the crematoria needed to meet demand. It¡¯s the circle of life. Every day there are people celebrating new beginnings while others are in mourning.

Apprentice: Floristry (Independent)

16 May 2008

Joanne Haynes trained as a florist at Plumpton College in East Sussex. Only a few years after qualifying, she bought the floristry business where she had done her apprenticeship.

China: Quake death toll could reach 50,000 (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

16 May 2008

By WILLIAM FOREMAN Troops dug burial pits in this quake-shattered town and black smoke poured from crematorium chimneys elsewhere in central China as priorities began shifting Thursday from the hunt for survivors to dealing with the dead. Officials said the final toll could more than double to 50,000. As the massive military-led recovery operation inched farther into regions cut off by Monday's ...