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Webinar: The Future of Work

By Funeral Director Daily / December 7, 2021 /

Funeral Director Daily’s morning message was one that its essence pointed out that in business, businesses will prosper best if the management and the employees can be on the same page.  With that in mind we bring you the following Webinar entitled “The Future of Work — What comes Next”. We believe that this webinar…

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Change for the better is never guaranteed. . . .learn about what you have

By Funeral Director Daily / December 7, 2021 /

I’m a baseball fan. . . have been since I served as Batboy for the local town team when I was about eight years old.  I was fortunate enough to get to see my Minnesota Twins baseball team win the 7th game of the 1987 World Series in Minneapolis. So, it won’t surprise you that…

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What’s your “Open file” load?

By Funeral Director Daily / December 6, 2021 /

I graduated from mortuary school in 1980.  It seems to me that life was a little easier back then, traditions were pretty normalized, and funeral services consisted of a pretty “run of the mill” body preparation-visitation-funeral service-burial logistic sequence.  Of course, prior to that service sequence a funeral director had to also meet with the…

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An interesting podcast for that drive home or for a Saturday just sitting around. . .

By Funeral Director Daily / December 3, 2021 /

Just perfect to leave you with for this weekend is access to this podcast from Let’s Get Social entitled “How the funeral industry is using social media effectively”.  It comes to us from one of our readers in Ireland who sent us the access information along with this note: “I co-host a social media for…

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“Greening” the traditional death care options

By Funeral Director Daily / December 3, 2021 /

You can’t get away from it anywhere.  There is a lot of talk on the national political stages about “Green Energy” and the environmental movement.  In the death care world we have been hearing that recomposition (the art of human composting) and alkaline hydrolysis (known by some as “cremation by water”) are going to be…

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The new casket merchants seek to raise funds

By Funeral Director Daily / December 2, 2021 /

The Cremation Association of North America (CANA) says the 2020 cremation rate in the United States was 56.1%.  That same reliable group says that within the next decade – in 2030 – the national cremation rate will rise to 72.8%.  Considering the fact that the vast majority of cremations in the United States do not…

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Security National Memorial segment increases earnings 125% for first nine months of 2021

By Funeral Director Daily / December 1, 2021 /

Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC) released this press release earlier in November which memorialized their operations for the 3rd Quarter of 2021 as well as the first nine-months of 2021.  The Utah based company operates in three business segments with one of those segments being what they call their Memorial Segment. For the nine months…

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Park Lawn enters state of Georgia with acquisition

By Funeral Director Daily / November 30, 2021 /

Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), the Canadian based funeral and cemetery operator announced in this press release yesterday that they had entered the state of Georgia with an agreement to purchase the Ingram Funeral Home & Crematory located in Cumming, Forsythe County.  The press release stated that the acquisition is scheduled to close in December of…

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The coming Unstoppable Force Paradox of Funeral Service

By Funeral Director Daily / November 30, 2021 /

The other day I came across this article from a publication called Mic.  The article was entitled, “I feel like a Survivor – inside the Funeral Industry’s 2021 National Convention”.  To say the article was interesting. . .and even somewhat eye-opening might actually be an understatement. You can read the article here. The article is…

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Podcasts that you may enjoy

By Funeral Director Daily / November 29, 2021 /

Over the holiday weekend we came across the following podcasts that you may enjoy: From Deathcare Decoded: “Core Values – Gratitude” Kicking off the 2021 holiday season with this special episode of Deathcare Decoded, Alexandra explores the concept of gratitude, which is one of Parting Stone’s four core company values. She explains how Parting Stone…

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