Funeral Director Daily
According to this release from BusinessWire direct-to-consumer company Titan Casket has secured $3.5 million in seed funding to expand its operations in the United States. The round of funding was led by Reformation Partners. The release continues as it says, “As Titan continues to expand its product and service categories with the addition of eco-friendly…
Earlier this week I read this article from Yahoo Finance authored by Brian Sozzi. The article is entitled “Consumers have to face that nasty inflation is here to stay for awhile”. The article goes on to mention that, at least in Mr. Sozzi’s opinion, skilled workers are too few in number to meet the needs…
It was 85 years ago this past March when “funeral directors from across East Texas showed up. Dallas dispatched 25 doctors, 100 nurses, and 25 embalmers” to the small Texas oil boom community of New London. After the tragedy and according to this article , “morticians embalmed more than 200 bodies in the Overton American…
On May 24, twenty-one people lost their lives to the latest American school shooting. Those twenty-one have been, or will be, laid to rest as their families choose and desire. A lot of people help out in the grief process and they are all appreciated. I couldn’t help but think when I read this article…
Over the last couple of weeks I have read a couple of articles that seem to indicate a path that death care is going — at least as some people see it. The first article which you can read here is a public relations piece from the United Kingdom and is titled, “Cultural shifts and…
Once again the information has piled up on my desk and I thought this would be a good time to get it out to our readers. We have information about “Goals oriented succession planning”, inflation issues, a death care company starting a “Corporate Cultural Department” and installing a Chief Cultural Officer and more. . .…
We learned in this article from Saltwire that Toronto, Ontario, based direct cremation provider Eirene is set to expand their services to the province of Nova Scotia. In business for two years in Ontario the provider offers a cremation package that includes death certificates, transportation, and estate administration support in addition to the removal of…
I’ve mentioned before that things change in Death Care. . . . but they seem to change rather slowly and methodical. We’ve seen a slow 40 year march to cremation being the most popular method of human disposition. And we’ve seen a movement over the last century from home funerals, to funeral homes, to church…
Saturday was going to be a busy day of working in the yard for me. So, after my morning bike ride I showered up and told Angie I’m going to McDonalds for some breakfast and a chance to sit down and read the newspaper before I got down to doing that work. As like so…
