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60 Years ago today. . . and the story of the “Kennedy casket”

By Funeral Director Daily / November 22, 2023 /

  Imagine it is lunch time at the funeral home you work at when you get a call from the hospital two miles away that you need to immediately bring the best casket you have to the hospital.  And, by the way, it is for the President of the United States.   That’s the call…

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How do you brand and market your Direct Cremation?

By Funeral Director Daily / November 21, 2023 /

  It’s Thanksgiving time and, of course, we all think about turkeys.   I probably think about turkeys a little differently than you do, however, because at one time I served on the board of a turkey growing operation.  You might not know this but my home state of  Minnesota is the top producer of turkeys…

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“Grief doesn’t wait for a convention”

By Funeral Director Daily / November 20, 2023 /

    Grief happens.  If you have ever lost a loved one you know that. . . . and you know that you don’t get to pick the time and place of when the event precipitating the grief takes place.   In this month’s installment of the participatory Funeral Professionals Peer Support meeting longtime funeral…

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Security National shows the way

By Funeral Director Daily / November 20, 2023 /

  In business it is many times believed that the smaller you are, the more nimble you can be.  And, if you live on a lake or an ocean you probably have heard the phrase that you “can turn around a jetski faster than an aircraft carrier”.   Both of those thoughts came to my…

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Life Expectancy drops again in United States

By Funeral Director Daily / November 17, 2023 /

      According to this recent article from Stat, life expectancies in America have dropped and the gap between Men’s life expectancies and Women’s life expectancies continues to widen.  The statistics show that men now have life expectancies 5.8 years less than women.   Overall United States life expectancies have dropped from 78.8 years…

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It has to work for everyone

By Funeral Director Daily / November 16, 2023 /

Over my lifetime I’ve learned that if something can work for everyone involved it’s probably a good thing.  Getting “it” to work out for everyone is probably one of the problems we have with health insurance. . . . something that might work for the physicans maybe doesn’t work for hospitals or maybe something that…

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It’s time for the “Top Read” articles of the last 30 days

By Funeral Director Daily / November 15, 2023 /

  October turned out to be an unusual month at Funeral Director Daily.  After a slow methodical climb over a few years to reaching 18,000 monthly page views, the blog upped its count 62% in one month to a record of 30,143 page views!!!  However, that was because we found out what sitting at the…

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Park Lawn 3rd Quarter sounds familiar

By Funeral Director Daily / November 15, 2023 /

    Last week Park Lawn Corporation reported their 3rd Quarter 2023 financial results.  Much like we found with Carriage Services, we found that Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) was able to increase total revenues but struggled to turn those increased revenues into greater Net Income for the quarter.   PLC reported a quarterly revenue increase…

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An ongoing debate with cemeteries: Community assets for enjoyment or sacred spaces for the deceased?

By Funeral Director Daily / November 14, 2023 /

    There is no doubt that with the advent of rising cremation in our society cemeteries are used less and less, as a percentage of all deaths,  by families as places of permanent memorialization.  However, there is still a large group of families that “do” select a space in a cemetery for the permanent…

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Carriage Services sees Revenue increase, Net Income decrease for 3rd Quarter comparables

By Funeral Director Daily / November 13, 2023 /

      Carriage Services reported 3rd Quarter 2023 financial numbers last week in their 3Q 2023 Report that you can access here, and in that report they showed Total Revenue growing to $90.5 million for the quarter and Net Income dropping to $4.6 million for the same period.   That compares to 3Q 2022…

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