cremation
Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC), the Utah based multi-pronged company with divisions in funeral homes and cemeteries and also with its insurance division involved in preneed insurance, had its full-year after-tax earnings drop from $55.5 million in 2020 to $39,5 million in 2021. It’s Earnings before taxes also dropped about $20 million for the three…
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It never ceases to amaze me how as habits change, some things stay the same and just keep rolling along. I don’t mean that in any negative way, but as death care is looking at new options such as alkaline hydrolysis, green burial, and natural organic reduction in the future, the tried and true ways…
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Over my years in funeral service I operated from two different funeral home buildings. The first building that I operated in was a former residence remodeled over a few times since about 1933 to offer a funeral home operation. In 2006 we moved into a brand new building built exclusively for the funeral and cremation…
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There is a battle being waged over the human disposition method called “aquamation”, also known as alkaline hydrolysis or flameless cremation. But, most of us are just too busy or are comfortable with disposition in the form of earth burial or cremation to really notice it. I find it interesting in a world where everything…
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StoneMor Inc. has been on a journey of what they term “Transformation” for the past few years. That road has followed management changes, sales philosophy changes, property changes, work relation chnages(employees to contracted services in some instances), funeral home divestments, and now seems to be on the final stage of strategy. . . what appears…
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Last week I was sent an offering to download the Passare short 26-page ebook entitled “The New Funeral Consumer”. In general, the ebook is based on observations and answers from what Passare says “is (probably) the largest independent funeral study that has ever been conducted. Interviews were conducted with over 3,000 individuals and each were…
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I love business and the challenge of building a business. To me it is very much like a jig-saw puzzle. . . . you have to work with the pieces you have and continue to move them around until they, like a jig-saw puzzle, fit together and make everything work. I served on the Board…
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I recently read an article from Yahoo Finance written by Andy Serwer that asks the interesting question, “(Is) inflation the business opportunity of a lifetime?” You can read that article here. Serwer explains that after almost fifty years of very low static inflation that we may be in for a much higher rate for the…
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As has become our custom, in an effort that our readers don’t miss the most popular stories published on Funeral Director Daily, we re-cap them in this format for you. This month those stories include a look back in time at the Tri-State Crematory incident as well as a look right here in the present…
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It’s been almost forty years ago when I had a new idea for a business and approached a well-heeled potential investor. The person did not become an investor but he did send me a note that he wanted to visit about the idea. And, in that note he made this comment that has always stuck…
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