Funeral Director Daily
Back in 1990 I spent about three days north of Vancouver, British Columbia, along the Campbell River fishing for salmon with a group of funeral industry people. One of the days was spent in a small fishing boat with a gentleman about thirty years my senior who had spent almost his entire funeral service career…
Only about a week ago Funeral Director Daily brought to our readers some new promotional spots by direct cremation start-up Solace. We told you that we liked them and then linked them for you to view. You can see that article here. We also told you in that article that we have been big fans…
If you have followed my writings for any length of time you know that I look to emerging trends to get a “gut feel” on what is going to be happening in the business world. Getting that gut feel doesn’t always lead to making fundamental business decisions, but it does lead me to continue watching…
Toronto based cremation provider Eirene announced last week in this announcement that they would be teaming up with Assurant Life of Canada (ALOC), an affiliate of Assurant Inc., to allow for Canadians to be able to pre-pay for cremations online as part of their estate planning. Eirene bills itself, on their website as, “High quality,…
Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC), the Utah based company with segments in the preneed insurance, funeral home assignment, mortuary, and cemetery business, released their 4th Quarter of 2020 and Year End 2020 results last week. The first line from that press release which you can read here, states, “For the twelve months ended December 31,…
In 2018, when I learned about it, Funeral Director Daily introduced our readers to “Extreme Embalming” via this article about some funerals that had taken place in New Orleans. “Extreme Embalming”, for better or worse, is the moniker that has been given to the embalming art of embalming bodies and posing them in “life-like” forms…
We started hearing in early January that the omnibus Covid relief bill passed by Congress in December 2020 would have some type of reimbursement for funeral expenses of Covid-19 victims. It was rumored that relief would be administered out of the funding provided to the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA). We’ve now learned in the…
Last week as I was perusing death care articles for future stories an interesting name popped up and I dived in to learn more about what was happening. The name was “Woodstock” and the article pertained to developers trying to maneuver a way to purchase what had now become the last funeral home property in…
For the 33 years that I operated my own funeral home I was a lot like a lot of you out there. I was so busy dealing with families, making sure that funerals were done correctly, and, just basically, operating the business on a day to day basis that long -range planning sometimes went by…
