Funeral Director Daily
Yesterday funeral home and cemetery public company Service Corporation International (SCI) reported their financial results for the 1st Quarter of 2020. The results were much anticipated because they are the first quarter where the “no large gatherings” rule had come into effect in funeral service. To be candid, however, those rules only came into effect…
Human emotions are an interesting dynamic. The human species can go in and out of emotions and many times not even help themselves in that process. Think about “fear”. You’ve been separated from your group on a camping and canoe outing and you don’t know where anybody else is. . . .fear might overcome you.…
As you may well know, the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) “Funeral Rule” is up for review at this time. The FTC has also extended the deadline for interested parties to submit comments to the agency to June 15, 2020, from the original April 14, 2020 date. The FTC Funeral Rule was first enacted in 1982…
We were informed in this public relations article from Agility PR Solutions that the United Kingdom’s leading dedicated provider of direct cremations, Pure Cremation, has donated paid-up television air time to the Marie Curie’s organization. One of Marie Curie’s non-profit endeavors is to provide end of life care. According to the release, “The end of…
In our continuing effort to get out information that has some relevancy to the death care industry we pass along this information. Please feel free to share this information with your co-workers and colleagues. CLA Livestream Series: Liquidity Strategies during the lending pause. This comes to us from the solutions experts at Clifton Larson Allen. …
Over the years I’ve often thought that the business of funeral and cremation care as a business is overlooked by those that teach or write of things happening in the business world. It is not everyday that Forbes magazine does an in-depth article on our profession. Last week, Forbes featured an article that you can…
On Wednesday I had the opportunity to be part of a live educational Zoom meeting that was part of the University of Minnesota Department of Mortuary Science distance learning. Geared for students, this presentation was aimed at letting those in the funeral profession describe to students what conditions they, as funeral directors, were working under…
This Funeral Director Daily article will not do enough justice to the funeral director/mortician profession but it is an attempt to show how those in our profession are going well out of their way to help other funeral directors in need and to help humanity as a whole. In New York City there are only…
I’ve seen no data to prove this but anecdotally several people have told me, or I have read, that funeral pre-arrangement sales have drifted downward during the past month or so of sheltering at home due to the coronavirus. That would only makes sense because many of the clients who pre-arrange are not only seeking…
On Monday at about the time that the stock market was closing for the day I happened to tune in to CNBC to see what had happened during the day in those markets. All the talk was about oil prices as the talking heads were busy informing the world, that at this point in human…
