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Crowdfunding. . . and funerals. . . growing?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 27, 2019 /

Over the past couple of years Funeral Director Daily has written some articles on the idea of going to a mass funding site to pay for funeral expenses.  We don’t know much about this, but we do know that it is a growing phenomena – not only with funerals – but with other large expenses…

Gilbert, Arizona to get its first cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / June 26, 2019 /

To those of us who live in storied towns and communities that have been around since the before the Revolutionary War in the East and the westward land rush in the Midwest the title of this article may seem odd.  Historical communities have cemeteries. . . even cemeteries that are filled with no more space…

Ling opines: “Death stocks . .clinging to life”

By Funeral Director Daily / June 25, 2019 /

Financial writer Benen Ling published on Seeking Alpha an article on the United States public funeral home and cemetery companies last week.  He titled his article, “These Death stocks are barely clinging to life”.  You can read the article here. Ling writes a good article and makes some great points about our profession and the…

Today’s SpaceX launch to carry 152 cremated human remains

By Funeral Director Daily / June 24, 2019 /

In recent months at Funeral Director Daily  we have kept up with what we think are some of the newer ways to memorialize that consumers are thinking about such as alkaline hydrolysis, recombination (human composting), potential outdoor cremation and the like.  Until we saw this article we had forgot all about Celestis Memorial Spaceflights –…

The growth of the trade business

By Funeral Director Daily / June 21, 2019 /

This week the Minneapolis Star Tribune did a really good piece on the role of the “Specialty” funeral director in our society.  What they referred to as the “Specialty” funeral director those of us in the industry have referred to as the “trade” service.  You can read the article here. The basics of the article…

15 month odyssey for Green Burial completed

By Funeral Director Daily / June 20, 2019 /

A written article and video news story from NBC Connecticut that you can see here tells the story of the death and eventual burial of Ms. Tessa Pascarella.  The story is one of the difficulty of having a green burial on land you own and how that can be accomplished.  To me, it is also…

Bank of America on Service Corporation International

By Funeral Director Daily / June 19, 2019 /

Last week a short article was written and published by the business channel CNBC on the merits of investing in death care company Service Corporation International.  You can read that article here. The article states that in the majority of the last economic downturns that Service Corporation has fared better than most stocks due to…

Missouri close to allowing outdoor cremation in public

By Funeral Director Daily / June 18, 2019 /

A Missouri legislative bill with nearly unanimous consent has recently passed out of the Missouri legislature and is awaiting Governor Mike Parson’s decision to sign the bill into law.  You can read more about this bill here from KansasCity.com. The bill, according to the article, would allow licensed funeral directors to organize outdoor cremations at…

Funeral Director Daily readership rising, but we could use some help

By Funeral Director Daily / June 17, 2019 /

I’m a retired funeral home owner and operator of over 35 years (here’s my compressed bio).  Back in early 2017 I was urged by a friend to write on my experiences and my thought processes on the death care industry because he thought others would be interested in listening.  Personally, I didn’t think anybody would…

Cemetery trends continue

By Funeral Director Daily / June 17, 2019 /

One of the things that we have noticed in our two years of searching for articles on the funeral and cemetery professions is that there seems to be no shortage of articles about cemeteries which have been around for a long time but are now, for the first time, experiencing numbing financial stress.  We bring…