Funeral Director Daily

Will tax revenue play a part in saving city and association cemeteries

By Funeral Director Daily / April 26, 2022 /

We’ve written about the problem before in this forum.  “The problem” being the lack of revenue for historic city and association cemeteries since the country’s cremation rate increased to a majority of dispositions.   The increase in cremations has decreased cemetery sales in full body burial lots and interment fees. . . .as a matter of…

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Another new concept. . . can it catch on?

By Funeral Director Daily / April 25, 2022 /

Only a couple of weeks ago Funeral Director Daily published an article entitled “Is an Event Center in your business future”.  I thought it was a fairly innocuous article about the growth of “event centers” and their potential as an off-site component of a retail death care business — both for direct cremation firms and…

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Mail on Sunday article calls Safe Hands Plans “a disgrace”

By Funeral Director Daily / April 22, 2022 /

According to this article from This is Money (Great Britain) the Safe Hands Plans funeral preneed fund “went under six weeks ago”.  Taking information from an article in the Financial Mail on Sunday, it suggests that over 47,000 plan holders are left with the potential of zero balances in their trust funds that were supposed…

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News you can Use

By Funeral Director Daily / April 21, 2022 /

There is a new play out called “Cremation: The Play” and it is set to be live-streamed beginning tomorrow on Lemonade.  It will also be live-streamed on Saturday and Sunday.  Cost to watch the live-stream is $20 and includes a Q & A following the production with the producers and cast. You can see information…

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Cemeteries, funeral homes looking for that perfect acquisition. . . we may have it

By Funeral Director Daily / April 21, 2022 /

The Prudential Company has the “Rock of Gibraltar” logo as an iconic brand differentiator.  As a matter of fact the brand logo is one of the oldest and most recognizable in the world. . . . .first appearing for Prudential in 1896 when the company stated, “Prudential has the strength of Gibraltar”. . . .…

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Rising interest rates, rising costs, rising inflation. . . . what does it mean for funeral homes

By Funeral Director Daily / April 20, 2022 /

Here’s an interesting fact as reported in this article from CNN, “The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5% in the week ending April 14, up from 4.72% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. That’s the highest since 2010″. Here’s a couple of other quotes concerning our economy from this recent article in Yahoo Finance, “Generally speaking,…

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Loewen movie article tops last 30 days readership

By Funeral Director Daily / April 19, 2022 /

Evidently the readers of Funeral Director Daily are enamored with the Oscars and what will be the best movie of 2023 or they are interested in the story of Canadian funeral home executive Ray Loewen and his quest in building a very large public company.  Our top rated article for the past 30 days was…

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Will we see a “Pull-forward” effect?

By Funeral Director Daily / April 19, 2022 /

Since the world started to deal with the deaths related to the Covid-19 pandemic beginning in March and April of 2020 there has been a question in the death care world about the theory of “pull-forward” deaths. . .and if there are “pull-forward” deaths, what will that do to the profession in the years following…

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SCI and other DCI stocks buck the Year-to-Date market trend

By Funeral Director Daily / April 18, 2022 /

The markets were closed on Good Friday and we thought that might be an appropriate time to take a look at how the stocks that comprise the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) have been doing in relation to each other and in relation to the stock market as a whole since the beginning…

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Having a Servant’s heart. . . a requisite for most funeral directors

By Funeral Director Daily / April 15, 2022 /

Today is Good Friday and Sunday is Easter in the Christian world.  And, I’m a sinner saved by grace.  Wednesday at my weekly Men’s early morning Bible Study the comment was made that this weekend, when we commemorate or celebrate Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection, those of the Christian faith recognize the greatest event of…

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