Changing Faces Of The Funeral Industry: How It Has Changed In The Last Three Hundred Years
Like everything, the funeral industry has undergone massive changes in the last three hundred years. If you like to know what they are, here are some of them: If you thought that wearing black in a funeral has been always the norm, then you can’t be wrong. The trend of wearing black to funeral started during the Victorian Era when Queen Victoria wore black for long after the death of her beloved Prince Albert. Another thing that this era contributed to the funeral rituals is using a different place for viewing the dead body instead of keeping it in the home of the deceased person. The place that time was called “Chapel of Rest” and nowadays, funeral homes in Hialeah are the place you do that. The next big change that funeral tradition and rituals, happened during the First World War which saw death on an unimaginable scale. Many times, there were not even bodies to bury hence the war memorials and communal mourning became common. Another thing that started during this time