Mortuary Mayhem
Podcast from the depths of the morgue from funeral professionals for funeral professionals. Covering all topics related to funeral service and embalming. Interviews with the A List for embalming, restorative art, the Federal Trade Commission, Mortuary Law and Funeral Directing.
Episodes
Join us with Kim Zavrotny from Funeral Professionals Peer Support. FPPS is a non-profit that provides peer-based mental wellness support to bereavement professionals worldwide. Visit funeralpeersupport.com for more information. This is a great program providing free monthly peer meetings specific to students, funeral directors, embalmers, cemetery professionals and other death care employees. Membership includes an extensive EA...
Join as as we continue the conversation with Faith Haug Department Chair of Mortuary Science at Arapahoe Community College in Colorado. This is part two of transitioning funeral service as we move into how students are today and how the industry will change with them.
Episode 17 : Funeral service is transitioning - Join us as Faith Haug discusses with Dan Shea and Jess Clasby how funeral service can grow and serve clients as more transgender funeral professionals and students feel comfortable becoming their true self as well as serving families and navigating conversations at the arrangment conference. How to incorporate proper pronouns and prefered names while still abiding by the law on legal ...
This month we compare two popular mortuary simulation games with real life management.
What does it mean to go the extra mile and how do we collectively improve. As an industry we either grow together or we sink together. We need to do the extra stuff and leave our comfort zone. It is the seminars, speakers, conferences and allow us to grow and learn how to improve based on others work. Preventing a stagnant environment requires the extra mile.
Join us as Prof. Shea covers study techniques that will prepare you for your semester and academic career no matter what field you are studying for.
Join us for a chat with Chelsea Cush, funeral director, embalmer and mortuary educator. Chelsea is a licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer in Michigan and Pennsylvania and teaches for the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, PIMS.
The NFDA's arranger training is a great opportunity to sharpen your skills at the arrangement conference and in general will make you better at funeral home operation and management. This eight hour day will be a mixture of learning, interacting, networking and practicing your skills. Melissa Loose offers a dynamic day of learning and when you leave you will be empowered to bring what you have learned back to the families you ser...
Join us as we cover how a funeral director and embalmer can approach suicide related deaths and tell the deceased story the way the family wants.
Following Governor Maura Healey's announcement of Mass Reconnect we sat down the the President of Cape Cod Community College, Dr. John Cox to discuss this monumental moment that will open doors and break down barriers to education. If you are 25 or older and ready to pursue your first college degree or maybe you have started but never finished, visit CapeCod.edu/Free for more information on Mass Reconnect.
Emma Waugh, Public Health Program Coordinator for the United South and Eastern Tribes - USET joins us this to discuss how funeral directors can better serve Native Americans, their tribes, death certificate misclassification and funeral directors can do to correct this. USET also provides training throughout the United States at your location.
Joe Reardon joins Melissa in discussing cremation and how it affects the modern funeral director. What can we do to serve families better and keep up with the times.
As the spring semester starts, we thought it would be beneficial to provide another lecture from the Cape Cod Community College Funeral Service Lecture Series. This time we bring you to test taking and study techniques with Dr. Shea. Dr. Shea ran a board exam review course for emergency physicians in the 90s. The physicians realizing that test taking was a skill that far surpassed topic knowledge alone asked that test taking ski...
Shawna Rodabaugh returns to the show this month to discuss quality embalming and the problems the funeral industry faces with embalming, why are we not getting the quality we expect.
Dr. Shea joins us as part of the Cape Cod Community College Funeral Service Program Lecture Series to discuss how funeral directors can better work with the healthcare community in completing the medical section of the death certificate.
Episode 3: Remote funeral attendance with Bruce Likly president of TribuCast® the leading remote funeral attendance program, join us as Bruce discusses how the industry has changed in light of families being able to remotely attending services and how we can serve families better. TribuCast® is breaking down barriers allowing family members to attend that are otherwise too far or too ill to be there, as well as providing a dynamic ...
A discussion with Prof. Fin regarding the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) open meeting that took place on October 20th, 2022 for public comment on modernizing the funeral rule. Join us as Prof. Fin provides a witty overview and what this change means for the funeral industry. Prof. Fin will continue to provide an evaluation and commentary as the FTC changes develop.
Episode 2: Anatomical Embalming with out guest Shawna Rodabaugh, the A-List speaker of anatomical Embalming Shares with you what you need to know, the difference between cosmetic and anatomical embalming with some valuable trade knowledge on what makes or breaks clinical preservation techniques and how we can improve. Shawna is involved in a new safer anatomical chemical, tune in to hear more.
Intro to the newest mortuary podcast serving the funeral community coving all things mortary and undertaking, the newest and most advanced embalming and funeral directing techniques, news, events and just pure mayhem coming your way.
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