Funeral Director Daily
One of the great things about not working every day anymore is that I now have the time to be “intentional” about myself. Back in the day of every day work my routine was get up, shower, a quick cup of coffee with a glance at the daily newspaper, and then off to work by…
Read MoreIn our “Get to Know Them” segment we endeavor our mission of getting our readers to know who some of the other readers of Funeral Director Daily are and to highlight all of the different occupations that keep the Death Care profession providing our services to those in need. Today, we highlight Mr. Bill Forsberg. …
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A little over a year ago Funeral Director Daily brought you this article introducing Better Place Forests to our readers. At that time we said of the idea, “Think of it. . . increased cremation and now a place – like cemeteries of old – where today’s consumer will feel comfortable placing the remains of…
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Yesterday Funeral Director Daily published an article about cemeteries and in that article we made the assertion that the COVID experience of 2020 will probably have some type of long-term effect on funerals going forward. That statement was made mostly in reference to what has happened with funeral attendance due to the social distancing practices…
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We’ve now moved into the 4th quarter of 2020 and with that timing we have had 6 full months of the COVID world results in death care. We know from listening to the news, looking at public death care company reports, and anecdotal reports from our colleagues that while funeral homes have been learning to…
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In today’s Afternoon Edition we will provide you with some articles that came out over the weekend. There is probably something for everybody’s interest in these articles as we always find that it is interesting to catch up with what is going on in other parts of the United States or in other parts of…
Read MoreI left full-time employment in the funeral profession at the end of the 2013 calendar year. At that time I was aware of a young, emerging company called Passare, whose web-site you can see here. What I remember of Passare is that, I believe, it was a product of Funeral Directors Life Insurance Company (FDLIC)…
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As we head into this middle of October weekend I just want to leave you with some things to ponder. Back in the 1980’s I had a friend who unfortunately got his name, and the name of his business, in the news for all the wrong reasons. When the issue at hand was pretty much…
Read MoreThe other day I wrote an article that was titled “Selling Preneed. . . .positively” which you can read here. The bottom line of that article was to illustrate when advising on preneed, to promote preneed in a positive fashion. I went on to say how, when I did seminars on funeral pre-arrangements, I tried…
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