Funeral Director Daily

Valuable information from those in our industry

By Funeral Director Daily / March 30, 2020 /

We’ve learned that we can use our subscription platform of over 1100 death care industry professionals to get valuable information disseminated throughout the profession.  We’ve learned of webinars and/or panel discussions from experts in various fields throughout the profession that you can hear from free of charge. Here are a couple of these type of…

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Hillrom leading the charge against COVID-19

By Funeral Director Daily / March 30, 2020 /

On Friday, or maybe it was Saturday, I was watching President’s Trump daily briefing on the coronavirus pandemic and my ears picked up when I heard him him mention some of the companies that were leading the charge against the virus.  One of the companies he mentioned was Hillrom. If you have been around funeral…

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Funeral Directors: Take care, stay safe, and God Bless the work you do

By Funeral Director Daily / March 27, 2020 /

As we move into the weekend of this strange world we seem to be living in now, I could find any of 50 articles that tell how funeral directors need to be up to the challenge or how funeral homes may suffer financial hits because of the lack of “gatherings” that are allowed to take…

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Reuters says “U.S. funeral homes struggle to adapt”

By Funeral Director Daily / March 26, 2020 /

Reuters published an article yesterday that was picked up by the New York Times today.  It is headlined, “As coronavirus hits memorial services, U.S. funeral homes struggle to adapt”.  You can read the article here. The article picks up on the Seeking Alpha article that we made available to our readers yesterday bearing somewhat on…

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Racing curtailed, jockey starts working at funeral home

By Funeral Director Daily / March 26, 2020 /

Today’s blog article could be classified under “funeral directors and their relatives are the most interesting people”.  I grew up living next to the family funeral home, went into that business as a career, and operated the business for almost 35 years so I’ve gotten acquainted with many people who grew up as a funeral…

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Seeking Alpha on the U.S. funeral home companies

By Funeral Director Daily / March 25, 2020 /

Earlier today Seeking Alpha News Editor Yoel Minkoff put out a short piece entitled, “Tough times for U.S. funeral homes“.  Oppenheimer securities analyst Scott Schneeberger is quoted in the article. You can access the short article here. [wpforms id=”436″ title=”true” description=”true”]  

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Will this current challenge change funeral service

By Funeral Director Daily / March 25, 2020 /

Unlike many of you who are a lot younger than I am, I no longer am responsible for working day after day and am no longer responsible for making the everyday decisions of businesses that I was in charge of in the past.  What that really means right now is that while I salute you…

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Potential mandatory cremation causing stir in Great Britain coronavirus bill

By Funeral Director Daily / March 24, 2020 /

According to this article from ARY News, the Great Britain drafted emergency Coronavirus Bill 2019-21, it is said to allow designated local authorities to disregard section 46(3) of the Public Health Act of 1984.  That section is designed to prevent a public authority to be able to cremate a body against the wishes of the…

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StoneMor bucks the system

By Funeral Director Daily / March 23, 2020 /

Those of us who have watched the markets over the last few weeks have seen a deterioration in the value of our private investment portfolios.  What has happened in the broader market is also indicative of what has happened in the death care industry with the exception of StoneMor, Inc. and its stock and valuation.…

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There is no doubt. . . . the world gets smaller

By Funeral Director Daily / March 20, 2020 /

We don’t have to look very far to understand that we live in an inter-connected world.  What happens in one part of the world has always led to innovation in other parts of the world.  But now with our connectivity, it just happens much faster.  And, it is always wise to look to other parts…

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