The Museum of Funeral Customs, in Springfield, Illinois is dangerously close to closing.

Newsweek magazine reports on the economic challenges faced by the funeral industry, and what some directors are doing.

The Consumerist talks about funerals and saving money.

The owner of Watson and Sons Funeral Home is arrested for felony abuse of a corpse.

What better place to get married?

The Illinois Funeral Directors Association is being sued by Illinois funeral directors alleging that the pre-need fund run by IFDA is a Ponzi scheme.

Another former church is rezoned for funeral home usage.

Local residents block a proposal for a green cemetery near Macon, Georgia.

MSNBC reports on how people are beginning to pre-plan their funerals in great detail.

A Connecticut funeral director is cleared of some charges, but fined over another.