Cemetery
Funeral Director Daily recently learned through this article from Public Media for Central Pennyslvania that Centre County will be building a 160-unit columbarium in Zion, Pennsylvania, to house urns that have went unclaimed. According to the article, the columbarium will cost over $19,000 and the county has 41 cardboard urns at this…
Read MoreKansas United States Senator Jerry Moran recently testified at a United States Senate Veterans Affairs Committee meeting that “When mourning a death the last thing a grieving family needs is some bureaucratic hurdle or some substandard support.” That comment came in response to the information provided, according to this article, that “there…
Read MoreBack almost three years ago in July 2021, Funeral Director Daily brought you this story of how a renewable energy company, Verogy, had put a 7,000 panel solar energy farm inside a cemetery in Torrington, Connecticut. In essence they took out a 20-year lease on the cemetery property with the energy they…
Read MoreWell-intentioned rules and regulations are put into place by organizations. Sometimes, however, like America has found out with the disastrous “de-fund the police” movement, the results are not what the organizers intended them to be. I think it is a little like that with the new dictate that the Veterans Administration has…
Read MoreIt has been pretty well publicized that former President Donald Trump may have assets seized by the State of New York to satisfy a judgement recently decided against his companies. Turns out that is not the only siezure battle by a state against against someone as you can see from this article in…
Read MoreHow long is “Permanent”? That is a question that has never been answered, but in many cases you will find out that “permanent” is not really “permanent”. There is an interesting dilemma going on in Surrey British Columbia, Canada, right now. According to this article, a popular pet cemetery is about…
Read MoreI’m old enough to remember that one of the earliest cries for increased cremation was that cemeteries will soon take up too much space in America. A rebuttal to that thought back in the 1980’s was always the quote “. . .if everyone in America died today we could bury them in 1/3 the…
Read MoreEarlier this month deathtech solutions provider PlotBox announced that it ranked #27 in the 2023 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards. The Fast 50 is a ranking of the growing technology companies in Ireland. According to a press release that you can read here, “PlotBox CEO Sean McAllister credits PlotBox’s strategy for global expansion…
Read MoreAn ongoing debate with cemeteries: Community assets for enjoyment or sacred spaces for the deceased?
There is no doubt that with the advent of rising cremation in our society cemeteries are used less and less, as a percentage of all deaths, by families as places of permanent memorialization. However, there is still a large group of families that “do” select a space in a cemetery for the permanent…
Read MoreI recently saw an e-mail alert from the American Heart Association with an odd title. The title of this particular e-mail information item was “Caregiving a concern as U.S. Hispanic people age faster than other populations”. I eventually realized that the headline did not mean that Hispanic people “get older faster” but…
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