Funeral Director Daily
In today’s Afternoon Edition of Funeral Director Daily you will find that most of our linked stories deal with funeral homes and their handling of the COVID-19 situation. We are also taking today to catch up with some items that you should be aware of in terms of PPE procurement, a webinar brought to us…
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I’ll tell you right away that this is one of those articles I write that you probably won’t get any answers from. As a matter of fact, I hope you go away from today’s article asking questions and thinking about the future. It’s the kind of article that I like writing, though . . .…
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Funeral directors are interesting creatures. We live to serve. . . . that doesn’t happen in every profession. I told my wife the other day as we live in this pandemic world every body seems to have all the answers. Politicians are acting as scientists, scientists are acting like politicians, parents know more than the…
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Today’s Funeral Director Daily “Get to Know Them” feature introduces our readers to Nicki Mikolai. Nicki graduated from my alma mater – the University of Minnesota – and has performed an extensive array of work in the death care profession. She is a licensed funeral director and had worked for the Minnesota Lions Eye Bank…
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Earlier this week Foundation Partners Group, the Orlando based funeral home, crematory, and cemetery operator announced that it had purchased a company that operated three locations in Southwest Florida. You can read the press release on the acquisition here. Foundation Partners Group announced that it had acquired the Akin-Davis Funeral Homes. They also announced that…
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So many times when I’m writing a an article I find something in that article that jogs my mind about another aspect of funeral service, or business, or life in general. In yesterday’s article I mentioned “Top of Mind Awareness” as something that your business or your brand wants your potential customers to have. I…
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I’ve learned, and am not surprised, that there are companies out there that really understand that the coronavirus pandemic has been detrimental in many ways. I never really thought about it but for those of us who like to get our continuing education hours in a live setting, we realize that those settings have been…
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This afternoon we are bringing you some news from the National Funeral Directors Association as well as a couple of stories that we uncovered about death care in California that point out the tragedy of humanity in the lives of those less fortunate than many of us. First of all, the National Funeral Directors Association…
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Over the weekend I had the opportunity to read two different articles with two different perspectives of the death care business. One article brought out criticisms of our professions that some in the consumer world have held since the days of Jessica Mitford and her 1963 book entitled “The American Way of Death”. That article,…
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I’m not a bah, humbug type of guy. . . .I actually love the holidays. . .all of them. However, shopping for a Christmas tree, dragging it home, and getting it set up is not one of my favorite things to do. I should be grateful because Angie does all the hard work like decorating…
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