Funeral Director Daily
The article begins, “Cremation and ground burial both have carbon footprints that have some people looking for other options for the afterlife.” That sentence pulled me in but what I went on to watch and read in this video and news story from Chemical & Engineering News pertaining to the “new” death care economy that…
Read MoreNine years ago, the Ballard-Sunder Funeral & Cremation business had a protracted discussion with community residents about allowing the first crematory in the city of Jordan, Minnesota, to open. Back then citizens filed lawsuits against the city and state that in effect said that zoning rulings for “funeral home” and “crematories” were not identical uses.…
Read MoreMany of you know that I live in west central Minnesota in a small community virtually equidistant between Minneapolis and Fargo, North Dakota. Our area, over the years has had some powerful and destructive tornadoes, but they are quick and generally affect only a small destructive path. If you happen to be in that 2-5…
Read MoreIn this press release issued by Victoriaville & Co. of Edmunston, New Brunswick, Canada, last week you can read about their acquisition of Alliance St-Laurent Casket, previously a subsidiary of Matthews Aurora Funeral Solutions. According to a quote from Steve Gackenbach, Group President of Matthews Memorialization, “This divestiture represents a manufacturing consolidation as part of…
Read MoreThe headline for this article might seem bizarre, but that is exactly what the amusement park chain, Six Flags, is asking people to do next week. The annual Six Flags 30-Hour Coffin Challenge is to take place at various parks starting this coming Sunday and Monday. You can read about it in this article from…
Read More“A little late to the game” or, maybe, “better late than never.” You can pick the phrase and either of those two will be applicable to the this news that we read in the Greek Reporter earlier this week. That news is, that after being legalized for use 13 years ago in the country, the…
Read MoreThere is a lot of talk about the United States Supreme Court this week. The talk ramps up during the first week of October every year because that is when the court goes back into session hearing cases after its summer recess. Here is an article from the Washington Post pertaining to the issues coming…
Read MoreThis article from the Salt Lake Tribune brings up the subject that indigent deaths paid for by the county has been increasing quite drastically in the past year. The article points out the over 20% increase in year over year numbers has happened fast. . . going from about four deaths per week earlier this…
Read MoreLast spring Funeral Director Daily published an article on the inception of San Francisco based Tulip Cremation. You can read that article here. In it, we had talked that we had been at an industry get together at that time and a lot of talk revolved around how Tulip Cremation, and its internet direct to…
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