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A case for “Tradition”

By Funeral Director Daily / July 3, 2025 /

    HBO’s recent documentary “The Mortician” probably gave the Death Care profession some bad publicity.  However, at least in one case as evidenced by this article in The Free Press titled “My husband wants to be cremated.  I’d ignore his dying wish“, it brought out a re-constituted call for the traditional visitation and funeral.…

Death Care Index is “Flat” year-to-date. . . . lags major indexes

By Funeral Director Daily / July 2, 2025 /

  The end of trading on Monday marked the end of the first-half of the year for stocks.  And, it was a significant day as on Monday the Nasdaq and S&P 500 both recorded All-Time highs in their numbers.  However, as you may know, the road to the record in 2025 was not a straight…

We’re almost there

By Funeral Director Daily / July 1, 2025 /

  Today marks the beginning of July and the first day of the second-half of 2025.  I figured it was a good time to sincerely thank all the readers and sponsors who continue to make Funeral Director Daily the Number One choice for “Business News” in the Death Care profession.   I started blogging to…

Growth vs. Income

By Funeral Director Daily / July 1, 2025 /

    Last week I read this article authored by Kenio Fontes from Seeking Alpha concerning Death Care behometh Service Corporation International (SCI) and titled “The quiet dividend machine you probably overlooked“.  As is the custom of Funeral Director Daily I will not comment on the specifics of a stock market related article, but it…

Memoria aims to be the “technology disrupter” of Deathcare

By Funeral Director Daily / June 30, 2025 /

      I don’t know what Death Care will look like ten years from now but I do know that change happens, and in some way, the logistics of it will be different than today.  This recent article from Forbes titled “Tech and Deathcare:  A new challenge to an old industry” ends with the…

The Psychology of Commitment

By Funeral Director Daily / June 27, 2025 /

    When you are in a competitive business you need to acquire customers and then find a way to make sure that those customers are “commited to you”.  Many times acquiring the customer might be the easy part, but making sure the customer stays commited to you and loyal to your brand can be…

Data is all around you — do you see it?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 26, 2025 /

    There’s a lot of places that one can collect data to help them with their business – and that business could be Death Care or international espionage.  This story is not necessarily about Death Care, but it is about finding data in interesting places that you may not be looking for it.  …

Carriage Services’ lack of acquisitions disappoints Seeking Alpha researcher

By Funeral Director Daily / June 26, 2025 /

  About ten days ago this article appeared on investor site Seeking Alpha authored by Caffital Research.  The article was about funeral home/crematory/cemetery operator Carriage Services.  The title of the article was “Carriage Services:  Further upside requires further M&A.”   In that article the author(s) stated “Carriage Services, Inc. has still been quiet on the M&A…

Acquisitions, equity funding, new funeral homes. . . The nexus between technology and traditional continues

By Funeral Director Daily / June 25, 2025 /

    In the last couple of weeks I’ve noticed articles that truly point to Death Care as being at a nexus, or intersection, of technology and tradition.  Today’s Funeral Director Daily article brings you information and links to articles that truly show that Death Care is changing.   There is one article that shows…

“The Mortician” becomes HBO’s “most-watched” documentary in over 5 years

By Funeral Director Daily / June 24, 2025 /

    Here’s what this article in Deadline says of the recent HBO series “The Mortician”:  “The three-part documentary series, which chronicles the inhumane practices at a funeral home in Southern California, debuted on June 1. Since then, the show has tallied more than 2.6M cross-platform viewers in the U.S., per the network.  It’s now…