funeral workers
For the first time that I can remember, the Cremation Association of North America’s (CANA) Peer Support online meeting is asking all funeral workers to invite their spouse for tomorrow night’s group get-together. According to a recent press release from CANA, here’s why: “A funeral professional may be called upon as an…
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Our friends at Funeral Professionals Peer Support and the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) have another timely peer support connection coming our way next Tuesday. Christina Walton will be the facilitator. Ms. Walton is a registered therapist specializing in bereavement and loss and she has been a licensed funeral director for 33…
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Over the weekend I conflated two situations and tried to make the argument that one situation could actually help the other. What happened is that I have noticed that almost all funeral homes of a larger case volume seem to be short professional staff. And, it’s not just in the United States — InvoCare in…
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I was going to write today’s article on some business things to check into after Labor Day. However, that article will wait until tomorrow. When I read the Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial pages yesterdayI came across a short article written for the 1981 Labor Day. You can access that article here. Now 1981 — that’s…
Read MoreOn Monday the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in a case that was partly brought to that court from a Michigan funeral home lawsuit alleging discrimination in employment as it pertains to gay, lesbian, and transgender people. Here is what an article from Real Clear Politics (RCP) says of this decision. “The Supreme…
Read MoreAs we move into the weekend of this strange world we seem to be living in now, I could find any of 50 articles that tell how funeral directors need to be up to the challenge or how funeral homes may suffer financial hits because of the lack of “gatherings” that are allowed to take…
Read MoreThere is no doubt that we all agree that what happened in that small Texas town last Sunday was a great tragedy beyond proportions. It should never have happened — but it did. From where I sit, in Minnesota, over 1000 miles away from the village of Sutherland Springs, Texas, it seems so distant —…
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