Funeral Director Daily

SCI’s Dignity firm “here to help” in California

By Funeral Director Daily / January 20, 2021 /

It was recently reported that California passed the three million mark in the number of documented COVID-19 cases and passed the 33,000 mark in death due to COVID-19.  According to several sources, that great number has caused some funeral homes to stop accepting new death call cases. That has caused Dignity Memorial director Anthony Lampe…

Death care suppliers. . . .they are busy too

By Funeral Director Daily / January 20, 2021 /

Funeral Director Daily has written a lot of articles in the past year about how busy funeral homes have been with death calls.  It’s just the way it has been for funeral homes in the year of COVID. What we have not done is find any articles on how suppliers are very busy.  We have…

Afternoon Edition: News you can use

By Funeral Director Daily / January 19, 2021 /

Today’s Afternoon Edition features several articles that we found interesting over the MLK holiday weekend.  We’ll leave it to you to see which interest you and your choice of reading. However, there are some interesting articles.  For instance, one article states that some funeral homes in California are actually having to turn away death calls…

Craft beers and Green funerals

By Funeral Director Daily / January 19, 2021 /

I read this article entitled “Everyone dies, so why not go out as a tree?” from Denverite magazine.  I even smile as I write this but it made me think of craft beer. I’m not alcohol free.  I had of my share of beer. . . especially in my twenties.  Today, however, I’m more for…

The continued growth of Direct Cremation

By Funeral Director Daily / January 18, 2021 /

Some trends become tidal waves.  This article from Great Britain insurer SunLife takes into account what they saw in 2020 as reported in their “Cost of Dying” report.  You can access the company’s synopsis of the Great Britain death care market here. One of the findings, which is more than likely pandemic induced, but also…

Weekend Edition. . . .News you can use

By Funeral Director Daily / January 15, 2021 /

As we head into the weekend I’m clearing off my desk and have some information from some of our favorite friends at Clifton Larson Allen, Roosevelt Investments, and the National Funeral Directors Association that may be of interest to you.  In addition, I’m throwing a couple of articles out there that are not necessarily death…

Career changes. . . can funeral service benefit?

By Funeral Director Daily / January 15, 2021 /

I recently came across a couple of surveys of of American workers and their career satisfaction and thoughts of career changes.  One thing is certain. . .we are not in the 1960’s when young people were told to “get a good job, hold on to it, and retire with a pension”. We now know that…

The sad, but profitable 2020 funeral business year

By Funeral Director Daily / January 14, 2021 /

There is no doubt that 2020 has been a different year in so many ways.  Even a hundred years from now it will be remembered as the COVID-19 pandemic year. And, in many ways, it has been a very rough year for funeral service.  This radio and print report that you can read and/or listen…

Foundation Partners adds New Mexico locations

By Funeral Director Daily / January 13, 2021 /

It didn’t take long into 2021 to hear of news on the acquisition front.  This press release will tell you of the Foundation Partners Group (FPG) acquisition of three funeral homes in New Mexico. According to the press release the company acquired the Riverside Funeral Homes located in Albuquerque, Los Lunas, and Santa Fe, New…

What is the proper storage protocol in a pandemic

By Funeral Director Daily / January 13, 2021 /

Over the last few days and weeks we have seen a surge in COVID related deaths in areas that had not necessarily had a surge in them yet.  Over the course of the past ten months we have seen peaks and valleys in different localities during the course of this pandemic.  We’ve also seen recent…