Talk:Deathcare

Wiki Education assignment: UCSF SOM Inquiry In Action-- Wikipedia Editing 2022

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Is this a fad term? Merge with Funeral director?

How does this rare word merit an article? Why does the article look like image advertising?

This is not encyclopedic quality. Example: Current lede: "Deathcare (also death care, death-care or after-deathcare) is the planning, provision, and improvement of post-death services, products, policy, and governance."

• The key term "post-death" is too vague: The services, products etc. occur after someone has died? No, they are marketed to people who are responsible for disposing of the remains and/or belongings of someone who has died.

• Services, products, policy and governance are such a diversity of concepts that it is hard to imagine them being comprehended in one term.

"Here, deathcare functions to describe the industry of deathcare workers, the policy and politics surrounding deathcare provision, and as an interdisciplinary field of academic study."

• Understandably, the author tries to offer a narrower definition. Unfortunately, this one is circular: deathcare is people who do deathcare and policy on deathcare. Thanks, big help.

I suspect this whole word is the product of some undertakers' lobby. Wikipedia shouldn't be a vehicle for this kind of blather. Or Wikipedia should report solid facts, such as "Deathcare is a term introduced by the Association for the Promotion of Touchy-Feely Vibes about Funeral Practices, and used in the promotion of public policies which ..."—or whatever the low-down turns out to be.

—Wegesrand (talk) 11:59, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Merge There's also a couple other pages with the term, such as Women in death care in the United States and Death care industry in the United States. If I understand the term correctly, it should also cover death doulas as well, which surprisingly doesn't make an appearance on the page despite being one of the only deathcare roles that isn't funeral directing. Where it is right now, there is no need for a separate page. The funeral director page is kinda small and sad right now in its state, probably because of the info being here instead. I would support a merge. Catboy69 (talk) 14:10, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

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