Regulations

NFL’s Steelers not amused by end zone cremation scattering

By Funeral Director Daily / October 21, 2021 /

If you have been a funeral director for any length of time a family member of a cremation disposition has approached you about their idea of scattering the cremated remains at a certain location.  Most of the time the question has been asked in relation to a public park, a church yard, a lake, or…

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Challenges managing thru constant change

By Funeral Director Daily / October 18, 2021 /

I’ve told you before that I get a lot of ideas for articles simply by seeing what is going on in “current events” and then trying to hypothesize how those current events will affect the death care industry.  I’m writing this column on Thursday, October 14, and during my workout this morning with the television…

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“Big Funeral” and some thoughts on “Universal Death Care”

By Funeral Director Daily / October 8, 2021 /

The funeral profession has long had its critics.  Those of us in the profession have to understand that and know that from time to time we are going to be broadsided by those critics’ calls for change. Recently this article entitled “How ‘Big Funeral’ made the afterlife so expensive” was published in Wired.  It’s a…

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Do we still “Do the Right Thing” simply to “Do the Right Thing”

By Funeral Director Daily / October 4, 2021 /

I’ve been around the death care business for a long time and I’m certain that I didn’t always make the correct decision in the many hundreds of decisions that I had to make every month.  However, I can tell you that I always wanted to “Do the Right Thing.”  And, the times when I realized…

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This is the week

By Funeral Director Daily / September 27, 2021 /

This is the week that Congress should act on the Biden Administration’s key piece of legislation, the $3.5 trillion “Human Infrastructure” bill.  Regardless of what happens or how you feel about that bill, I thought it would be interesting to look back on how death care has fared from the other two large social bills…

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Natural Organic Reduction now operating in Colorado

By Funeral Director Daily / September 22, 2021 /

According to this article from U.S. News & World Report, the process of natural organic reduction or what is commonly referred by many consumers as “human composting” is now available in the state of Colorado.  Legalized by the state over a year ago with a September 7, 2021, legal start date, at least one death…

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Where have all the men gone?

By Funeral Director Daily / September 20, 2021 /

I think we have all seen it, but have we ever looked at the statistics and questioned what has happened.  The “it” I’m talking about is women in the workplace over the years and the correlation of “Where have all the Men gone”? In the death care business we have seen the rise of the…

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The vaccine mandate. . . your business, your employees

By Funeral Director Daily / September 14, 2021 /

“We have been patient.  But our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost us all.”  According to this article from Yahoo Finance, those were the words of President Joe Biden when he announced last Thursday the upcoming Covid-19 vaccine mandates for American businesses. According to this article from Yahoo Finance, “a new Labor…

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Arlington National planning to limit burials

By Funeral Director Daily / September 13, 2021 /

Arlington National Cemetery, our nation’s national cemetery, is somewhat between a rock and a hard place as they plan the future of the cemetery.  I don’t think anybody disagrees with Karen Durham-Aguilera, the cemetery’s executive director when she states, “We want to be open.  We want to have that opportunity for that 5-year-old who’s going…

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Cleaning off the desk. . . .items to ponder for the long weekend

By Funeral Director Daily / September 3, 2021 /

America moves into the Labor Day weekend today which generally signals for our family that Summer is coming to an end and it is “Back to School” time.  For us that historically has meant boats off the lake and put into storage for the winter and our two sons heading back to school. Well, it’s…

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