Our Press

• Two Funeral Directors on How the Pandemic Upended the Business of Death, Vox, May 2020.

• Thousands of New Yorkers Are Dying. What Happens to Their Bodies? The Washington Monthly, May 2020.

• How a Brooklyn Neighborhood Came Together to Bury a Stranger, AP wire, Time magazine, May 2020.

• We’re Going to See What Else the Word Funeral Can Mean, Jody Kantor, NYTimes, April 2020.

• Death Care in the Time of Covid-19, an interview with attorneyTanya Marsh, Death Et Seq., April 2020.

• Virtual Memorials and No Hugs: The Funeral Industry Prepares for the Coronavirus, Mother Jones magazine, March 2020.

• Death Becomes Her: An Interview with Amy Cunningham, BRIC, March 2020.

• The iPhone at the Deathbed, February 2020, The New York Times.

• The Movement to Bring Death Closer by Maggie Jones, Sunday NYTimes Magazine, December 2019.

• How to Write a Compassionate Condolence Note, NextAvenue, November 2019.

• Seven Funeral Industry Thought Leaders You Should be Following on Social Media, FuneralOne blog, July 2019.

• Behind the Scenes Podcast: The Life and Times of a Modern Funeral Director, July 2019

• Five Things I’ve Learned from Green Burials, LifeDeathWhatever.com, June 2019

• Seven Ways to Serve the “Organic” Funeral Family, Connecting Directors, June 2019.

• The Funeral as We Know It Is Becoming a Relic, The Washington Post, April 2019.

• Seamless for the Grieving, New York Times, February 2019.

• Amy’s Four Predictions for Funeral Directors, Crankn, January 2019.

• “The Talk of the Town” piece on Amy’s condolence letter writing workshop, The New Yorker, January 2019.

• How People Choose Their Final Outfit, VICE, December 2018.

• The Death Positive Movement Comes to Life, NYTimes, June 2018.

• Want to Plan for Your Death and Funeral? Here's How by Christine Colby for The NYTimes.com, February 2018.

• The New Buddhist Funeral: A conversation with Julia Hirsch of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, June 2017.

• Plantable Urns and Burial Fashions: This Movement Seeks to Radically Change How We Look at Death by Neta Alexander, Haaretz, June 2017.

• 19 Things Funeral Directors Want You to Know, Buzzfeed, May 2017.

• "We've Mastered Weddings, but the Funeral Needs a Lot of Work," Quartz, April 2017.

• A Friendly Place to Talk about the End, Village Voice, March 2017.

• Discuss Your Fears While Eating Cookies, by Eliza Relman, The Gothamist, February 2017.

• Eight Things Funeral Directors Want You to Know, by Gail Rubin, January 2017.

• Start-ups Take Rites from the Funeral Home to the Family Home, NYTimes business section, January 2016.

• Why Millenials Want Greener Funerals, Refinery 29, October 2016.

• Amy gave a speech on funeral home regulation at Wake Forest University's School of Law in 2017 in which she outlined needed changes in funeral training and practice. Read it here on the blog of Wake Forest's Journal of Law & Policy. 

• Amy's Funeral Etiquette Do's and Don'ts via Mental_Floss, January 2016

• On Reviving Old Funeral Customs and Driving That Hearse: Jamie Yuenger interviews Amy about old and new approaches for StoryKeep, September 2015.

• “The Nine Most Innovative Funeral Professionals,” Funeral One Blog, January 2015.

“The Rise of Back-to-Basics Funerals,” NYTimes Styles Section March 2014.

s on Cultivating a Good Relationship with Your Funeral Director, Seven Ponds Blog, October, 2014

Rewiring the Way We Look at Death, RewireMe.com, July 2014.

From Magazines to End-of-life Celebrations, May 2013.