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Seeking Alpha author on SCI stock: “You might want to hold this one until your last breath”

By Funeral Director Daily / October 24, 2025 /

  Seeking Alpha contributiing author Daniel Jones published an article this week titled, “Service Corporation International:  You might want to hold this one until your last breath”.   It is a very interesting article that uses both SCI financial data and United States birth and death data to make a case that SCI, as a…

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Rollings Funeral Services makes acquisitions

By Funeral Director Daily / October 23, 2025 /
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Funeral Director Daily recently learned that Rollings Funeral Service, based in Georgia, made a couple of acquisitions involving more than 100-year old family funeral homes.  Over the summer they purchased the McCombs Funeral Home of Jackson and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, — a firm that was founded in 1906.   And more recently in October, Rollings…

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Here’s a new product everyone in the cremation business could use

By Funeral Director Daily / October 22, 2025 /

  I operated a crematory at our funeral home and one of the tasks I very much disliked was transfering cremation remains into the very popular “vase-shaped” urns.  You see, while the vase-shaped urn has a curvature to it that widens out, it also has a very small opening at the top of the urn…

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Tonight: Peer Support Peer Support

By Funeral Director Daily / October 21, 2025 /

    The Cremation Association of North America (CANA) uses their advocacy and numbers to help those who work in Death Care gather in a Peer Support Network.   Here’s what CANA says about tonight’s Peer Support online meeting in a recent press release, “We didn’t choose this profession because it was easy—we chose it…

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Dead people don’t pay taxes

By Funeral Director Daily / October 21, 2025 /

    In early October North America’s largest purveyor of Death Care services, Service Corporation International (SCI), received an approved zoning ruling to build Funeraria del Angel, a funeral home and cemetery in San Antonio, Texas.  You can read about the development in this article from the San Antonio Report titled “Against a school district’s…

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The World Around Us

By Funeral Director Daily / October 20, 2025 /

    About ten days ago Funeral Director Daily wrote our first column titled “The World Around Us“.  The column, which will appear on a periodic basis, was created with the thought process that people in the funeral business stay pretty busy and don’t always find time to find out what is happening outside of…

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PlotBox acquires MIS

By Funeral Director Daily / October 20, 2025 /

    In this press release issued last week you can read that PlotBox has acquired MIS (sometimes referred to as HMIS).  The PlotBox website brings about this statement about the integration of the companies, “ (this transaction) bring(s) one of the industry’s most comprehensive capabilities – from PlotBox’s cloud-native mapping, operations, records, and financial…

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HIllenbrand Industries sold

By Funeral Director Daily / October 17, 2025 /

    Since they sold Batesville in February 2023, Hillenbrand Industries has been out of the Death Care business.  But, if you are a long-time member of the Death Care community the name Hillenbrand has been synonymous with the funeral profession since 1906 when John A. Hillenbrand purchased the Batesville Casket Company and founded “Hillenbrand”…

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Are we in the midst of a paradigm shift, from “Services selection” to “Memorialization selection”, by the consumer

By Funeral Director Daily / October 16, 2025 /

    As things seem to do in my life, circumstances came together this week to have me reflect on changes in the Death Care profession/industry.  First of all, here’s three items that came together to make me think about changes in our businesses.   I attended the funeral of a long-time member of my…

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Legal issues and an article re-appearing for the 2nd Month as “Top Read” leads our list of most popular articles over the past 30 days

By Funeral Director Daily / October 15, 2025 /

    Again, the 15th of the month leads us to re-issue our Top Read articles of the month for our readers —  just in case you missed one of them the first time.   This month two articles dealing with legal issues of Death Care appear as our Top Two articles and for the…

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