Funeral Director Daily
This afternoon we are bringing you some news from the National Funeral Directors Association as well as a couple of stories that we uncovered about death care in California that point out the tragedy of humanity in the lives of those less fortunate than many of us. First of all, the National Funeral Directors Association…
Over the weekend I had the opportunity to read two different articles with two different perspectives of the death care business. One article brought out criticisms of our professions that some in the consumer world have held since the days of Jessica Mitford and her 1963 book entitled “The American Way of Death”. That article,…
I’m not a bah, humbug type of guy. . . .I actually love the holidays. . .all of them. However, shopping for a Christmas tree, dragging it home, and getting it set up is not one of my favorite things to do. I should be grateful because Angie does all the hard work like decorating…
Last week you could not turn on the news without hearing of the potential for the COVID-19 virus to spread rapidly because of Thanksgiving and other upcoming holiday travel. We found a couple of articles pertaining to states and how they may handle the number of deceased bodies that may come with that potential surge.…
We checked into Funeral Director Daily’s proprietary Death Care Index (DCI) after the markets closed on Monday, the last day of November. That check-in allowed us to take a look at the eight stocks that make up the DCI and see where they were individually and as a group and how that group compared to…
Only a couple of days after I gave you my thoughts on what new companies might be winners in the death care profession I stumbled across an article from Forbes entitled, “The Future of Death Tech”. Today’s afternoon edition of Funeral Director Daily brings you that article as well as information on an apparent financial…
As we told you yesterday, we are re-running our budgeting articles that received such good response from funeral home operators in November 2019. Budgeting is, well, budgeting, but there are always new wrinkles to account for. While we have, for our example, simply delineated our revenue numbers by cremation case or earth burial case, if…
Today’s Funeral Director Daily Afternoon Edition brings you some information about public companies in the news as well as a Maine community issuing the paperwork for the Midcoast Crematory to move forward to an operating mode. The article mentions that this has been accomplished “after multiple years of effort by Michael Hall of the Hall…
I’m taking the time today and tomorrow to re-run articles from last November on funeral home budgeting. I posted these articles last year and had many positive comments and since we have many new readers since then, I figure that maybe my thoughts on budgeting — both the expense side and the revenue side —…
We found a lot of information over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend that we thought was worthy of distribution to you. Included in today’s message you will find information on our nation’s newest veteran’s cemetery to be dedicated today in western New York state. The cemetery, eleven years in the making, has been designed to serve…
