Rising costs, declining demand, massive consolidation and government scrutiny: The death industry is changing, maybe for good

The death industry is at a crossroads. Their historic business of preserving a body, displaying it and then overseeing its burial is collapsing. Rising inflation, declining religion have overturned the fundamentals of the small family businesses that have dominated the mortuary industry at the same time that cash-fueled private equity interests are rolling them up into juggernauts.