Erie funeral homes adapt to long-term changes in death care industry

For 55 many years, Nancy Dusckas lived over her family’s funeral dwelling. She remembers sliding down the staircase railing and playing hide-and-seek out in the casket showroom with her sister…

Death is anything but a dying business as private equity cashes in on the $23 billion funeral home industry

Private equity firms are investing in health care from cradle to grave, and in that latter category quite literally. A small but growing percentage of the funeral home industry—and the…