Funeral Director Daily
In August of this past summer (2026) 56 decomposed bodies were found improperly stored in a funeral home in Chicago. It’s not the first time or the first place something like this has happened, but when cases like this hit the news it does paint the Death Care profession in a bad light…
The movie Back in Black starring Christopher Walken recently celebrated its world premiere in September at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The movie stars Walken as Clyde Mortimer in what some reviews call a “dark comedy”. The premise, according to this article about the TIFF, is that Walken’s character “is the patriarch in…
I’ve had a lot of experience during my time as a Board member and Chairman of Senior Living companies extending “service lines” in order to build business. And, I think part of the future of Death Care will include present operating companies expanding “service lines” to become larger companies. In the Senior Living…
This recent article from the Waco (TX) Tribune-Herald will give you full information on the recent purchase of the business assets of the historic Connally-Compton Funeral Home in Waco, Texas, by the Park Lawn Corporation. The purchase is interesting in one sense because it appears to be from Service Corporation International (SCI)…
The “Most Read” article of the month for the past 30 days published by Funeral Director Daily had to do with a Louisiana acquisition. . . But we also published a listing that appeared in another publication of the largest funeral home companies in North America with that same article. While there is always interest…
I came across an interesting article the other day that reminded me of the unease that I always had in selecting our funeral home’s preneed insurance partner. My unease had nothing to do with how we sold preneed and our expected acceptance of it at the time of death. My unease came…
Back in August the Worcester (Maryland) County Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) approved Natural Organic Reduction (NOR) firm Earth Burial’s request to spread NOR soil on a 14-acre property in the county. According to this recent article from the Ocean City (MD) Today-Dispatch, the Worcester County Attorney has now filed a petition for judicial…
Acquisitions are big in Death Care. . . .and we are being told that with so many retiring funeral home owners. . . about to become bigger. If that is the case, we will have many people in our profession starting to ask the question, “How much is my funeral home worth”? I’ve…
Last week I wrote an article on how a changing consumer thought process, including the growth of Direct Cremation with No Services (DCNS), is affecting the business dynamics of traditional funeral homes. If you are one of the funeral homes being affected it is probably not a big consolation to you, but in…
It’s been over 20 years since the advent of Health Savings Accounts were swept into law during the George W. Bush administration. And, a bill (HR 2436) which moves them into the Death Care realm, which still sits in committee, was introduced into the U.S. Congress in 2025. That bill, introduced by Oklahoma Representative…
