Funeral Director Daily
In today’s afternoon edition we have a little something for everybody. We’ve got information on educational opportunities coming up for industry professionals dealing with everything from attracting consumers to your funeral home to insights on the financial markets, to podcasts on interesting topics from the National Funeral Directors Association. On the news front there are…
Read MoreThe Anderson Funeral Home of which I was a 4th generation owner/operator has been in our community since 1872. Dates sometimes go over our heads, but I used to like to remind people that we were in our 5th year of business when the historic “Battle of Little Big Horn” was fought and Gen. George…
Read MoreColumnist Lee Schafer had a business column in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Sunday that you can read here. The basic tenet of the article was on decision making and the decisions we are making when it comes to the mask/no mask decision by Americans. Eventually, the article gets into the thought process, that as…
Read MoreWe’ve got plenty of death care information from around the world for you today. Two of our stories relate to current events in the United States and come to us from the state of Texas. We’ve also got some death care information from Italy and Iraq as well as a 100th year of business celebration…
Read MoreEarlier in July Funeral Director Daily featured an article entitled, “Does death care have a consumer influencer?” The article pertained to our profession and wondered out loud if death care had someone that was able to “influence” consumers as to their choice of death care. That “influencer group” is in a lot of other industries…
Read MoreIn today’s edition of Funeral Director Daily’s Afternoon Edition, among other stories, we bring you the story of a Washington state funeral home that had its 20-year old crematory catch on fire on Friday. According to news reports swift action by staff and the local fire department made for minimal damage at Moles Farewell Tributes…
Read More“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” That is the motto or creed of the United States Postal Service that serves every address in the United States. The department has came under fire lately for the costs it accrues in keeping…
Read MoreAs we wrap up the week we bring you information on the historical topic of mummification – or as mentioned from an article of Live Science – that refers to it as the “Lost art of embalming the dead” all the way into the present day with an article from Quartz entitled “COVID-19 has accelerated…
Read MoreAccording to this article from Medical Express, Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solbert announced, on March 12, the strongest and most intrusive measures the county had seen in peacetime. Those included the closure of schools, bars, and many public spaces, a ban on sports and cultural events and a curb on foreign travel. The country now…
Read MoreEarlier this week I came across a couple of articles that tell the toll of funeral directors and funeral home operators who have operated in the COVID-19 environment. After reading them I think it is very difficult for those of us, who have not been on the front lines of arrangements or financial management of…
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