Business
One of the great things about beginning a New Year is that we have a chance to speculate where those next 365 days will bring us. That speculation also gives us a little perspective on where the trends are moving that will carry our profession into the future. So here’s my take on some of…
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This article will be sent to Funeral Director Daily subscribers on the last day of 2021. By that time America will have passed the 800,000 number of deaths due to Covid-19 and will have had more deaths in 2021 than in 2020. That’s 800,000 individual human beings who have lost their lives and it is…
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I can remember going to my first couple of craft breweries. It was in the mid-1990’s and one I went to was in downtown Fargo, North Dakota, prior to attending a basketball game at their downtown civic arena. Then later, I was in Hawaii with my wife and going for dinner found us at the…
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What happens to our online accounts, photos, documents and more when we die? According to this press release, “Our digital lives – and deaths – are increasingly complex. Recent surveys show that some 65% of U.S. adults do not remember their passwords and another shows that 95% have no idea what happens to their digital…
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Not every article that appears in Funeral Director Daily has a direct bearing on the business world of funerals, cremations, and burials. However, if you stick with me with this article, dealing with this discovery, we will discuss the power of heritage funerals among other things. A sword found buried in a Scottish grave in…
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Busch Funeral and Crematory Services, based in Cleveland, Ohio, co-owner Mark Busch retired not long ago. According to a recent article that I read, he began work at the family firm in 1982 and retired in 2020. The family firm dates it origins back to 1905. Busch recently talked of his involvement as an owner…
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A high number of Baby Boomers in ownership roles, the un-planned last two years of Covid-related operations, the thought of an increase in capital gains taxes. . . . . .those are all valid reasons that have many owners of funeral homes thinking of getting out of the ownership realm.. At the beginning of 2021…
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Time has a way of changing one’s perspective. I’ve told you before that I started in this business as a funeral director in 1980. I was paid $1,000 per month and our funeral home conducted virtually 100% of our funerals in the traditional “casket, funeral, vault, burial” method. I remember that the final billings, including…
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Last week Canadian funeral home operator Arbor Memorial announced in this press release a partnership with Domanicare that will help selected Arbor Memorial locations in the delivery of their aftercare programs. Here’s what Rondev Bhattacharya, Vice President of Sales at Arbor Memorial said of the agreement, ““The needs and expectations of Canadians are changing, as…
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The Cremation Association of North America (CANA) showed statistics that cremation dispositions in the United States accounted for about 56% of all human dispositions in 2020. I’m guessing that percentage will grow slightly for 2021 as it has every year for the past 40 or so years. CANA’s futuristic looking statistics, which have been pretty…
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