Mortuary Science: Web Sources

Professional Caleb Wilde explains how embracing death can allow us to embrace life.

Online Death Care Industry News

Articles and posts about the industry.

Alan Creedy is one of the most trusted voices in the funeral profession because of his deep-rooted experience and unflinching honesty when offering advice.

Creative Ways to Approach the Inevitable: A Blog by NYC Funeral Director Amy Cunningham.

The Order of the Good Death is a group of funeral industry professionals, academics, and artists exploring ways to prepare a death phobic culture for their inevitable mortality.

Information about studying Mortuary Science from the College Board.

The International Conference is a not-for-profit voluntary association providing examination services, information, and regulatory support to funeral service licensing boards and educators, governmental bodies and other regulatory agencies.

The Nassau-Suffolk Funeral Directors Association (NSFDA), founded during the mid-1980s, is an organization of New York State Licensed Funeral Directors and New York State Registered Funeral Firms.

NFD&MA is a membership association of professional funeral directors and morticians and embalmers, whose members and members-at-large are also members of state associations of funeral directors, morticians and embalmers dedicated to promoting the common professional and business interests of its members.

NFDA has been a leading voice in the profession for 120 years, tracking trends and uncovering new paths to success for funeral directors.

Founded in 1889, NYSFDA is the oldest funeral directors association in the United States and is headquartered in Albany, New York.

Learn about careers in funeral services from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Champion Expanding Encyclopedia of Mortuary Practices is published and disseminated to the embalming/funeral service profession and related professions in an effort to educate, inform and advance the knowledge and expertise of practitioners in the profession.

Explore what happens to us when we die and the different ways we deal with death.

The National Museum of Funeral History houses the country's largest collection of funeral service artifacts and features renowned exhibits on one of man's oldest cultural customs.

Tools and resources to help with the grieving process.

Green, or natural burial is a way of caring for the dead with minimal environmental impact that aids in the conservation of natural resources, reduction of carbon emissions, protection of worker health, and the restoration and/or preservation of habitat.

Dedicated to promoting the best of what funeral service is about, through grant-giving, research projects.