Cremstar in the News
New VA Benefits Make Cremations Free for Veterans' Families
Harrisburg Daily Digest, Nov 11th, 2024
“Since Cremstar's starting price for a direct cremation is only $893,” says Sandom, “that means your cremation is covered. Plus, if you inter that urn in a columbarium,” Sandom adds, “you may be eligible for a reimbursement of $978, just for that.”
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Tech is Making Funerals Simpler and Less Expensive
Technical.ly, Aug 8th, 2024
Technology helps make the way we live more efficient, but it's changing the way we grieve too.
Apps that assist in planning a funeral and biodegradable urns are part of the growing death tech industry, which aims to streamline planning funerals and memorials.
For J.G. Sandom, the idea to enter the deathcare field came after having a negative experience making arrangements when his father died. He's now CEO of Philly-based Spring Holding Group, a parent company with multiple business units dedicated to technology in the death services sector.
“When it comes to the people themselves and the anxieties they feel, the technology really helps them,” Sandom said. “It helps them focus their lives, not on the mechanics and the paperwork, but on what's really important, which is celebrating the life of their lost loved one.”
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NFC Tracks Body Transport, Cremation
RFID Journal, August 1st, 2023
With NFC tag attached to body bags, Styx Logistics' funeral home and dispatch customers have digitized data related to when a specific body was picked up or delivered for cremation.
Aug 01, 2023 – Deathcare software company Styx Logistics, Inc. has developed a solution to track bodies as they are picked up from hospitals or other sites and delivered to cremation facilities to ensure mistakes are not made, while also boosting transportation efficiency. The company's app has already been creating a record of a body's pickup, delivery and cremation, while a new NFC technology offering further automates the process by identifying the remains with the tap of a smart phone.
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Leveraging RFID to Track Bodies
ABC27, June 14, 2023
Styx Logistics Leverages RFID Chip to Track Bodies from Removal to Cremation
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES, June 14, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ – – Philadelphia-based deathcare software developer Styx Logistics has successfully completed a beta test program using an RFID chip to track bodies from their initial removal to their final disposition in area crematories. Styx Logistics offers funeral homes a suite of eCommerce, Content Management (CMS) and Dispatching Logistics software modules and apps, available to funeral homes and mortuary transport services on a subscription (SaaS) basis. With the addition of this patent–pending “digital toe tag,” Styx is now the only deathcare software provider offering complete end–to–end digital tracking through the company's Funeral Director, Driver and Crematory apps.
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An Epidemic of Loneliness – – Designated Agent (DABD) Form
AP News, June 6, 2023
Cremstar Launches Campaign to Help Singles Designate a New Next–of–Kin
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES, June 6, 2023/ EINPresswire.com / – – The U.S. Surgeon General recently released an advisory calling attention to the public health crisis of loneliness, isolation, and lack of connection in the United States. Research shows that approximately half of U.S. adults experience loneliness daily. It also highlights that a lack of social connection can present significant health risks, since loneliness can increase risk of premature death by 26% and social isolation by 29%, as well as myriad other negative health conditions.
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Cremation’s Going Digital
SevenPONDS, July 14, 2021
Cremation is seeing a digital transformation behind the imagination of a former New York ad exec. J.G. Sandom spent almost 40 years in the advertising business before he started his latest venture, Cremstar, in 2014. He founded one of the first digital ad agencies, Einstein and Sandom Interactive, in 1984, and got elbow-deep in the digital space by pioneering some of the first digital marketing campaigns in the nascent World Wide Web. He even worked for then-big-4 global ad agency Ogilvy and Mather for a stint in the late 90s as Director of Interactive.
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Philly startup aims to make cremation easy and affordable
Crain's Philadelphia, September 5, 2018
5 things to know: Startup seems to be like the Uber of cremation. What?
Dell Poncet – Managing Editor, Philadelphia Business Journal, August 31, 2018
Here we go: A story about death, or more precisely, cremation made easy. Startup Cremstar is kind of like the Uber of Ashes, if you get my drift.
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'Re-branding death' — A Philadelphia startup aims to shake up the funeral industry
by Michelle Caffrey, Philadelphia Business Journal, August 30, 2018
When most consumers are faced with an expense that could cost more than $10,000, they usually do their research. They compare prices, read reviews and talk to people who have been there, done that before buying, often online as digital shopping experiences for even expensive items like cars grows.
But when a loved one dies, that often all goes out the window. The funeral industry, steeped in tradition, has been criticized in the media for its lack of transparency and pricing practices, and in the worst case scenarios, predatory selling practices.
Cremstar...is trying to change at least one part of the equation...
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