Funeral Director Daily
From time to time at Funeral Director Daily we come across articles on products for the death care industry that we believe are new, innovative, and have promise. Today we are introducing you to “Planturns” – urns that double as planters. They have been created by Los Angeles based designer and woodworker C.C. Boyce. According…
The Gallup Poll recently released its findings on church membership last week and I found an article on it written by the Associated Press that you can read here. One of the interesting items was that, contrary to anecdotal thought, Hispanic Americans church membership has dropped, since 2000, from 68% to 45%. That is a…
Mental health issues on college campuses are real and are growing at a pace that is hard to reason. This article from the University of Minnesota Daily, a student newspaper, deals with a mental health issue that is not uncommon, but many times goes unnoticed by college officials. That is the issue of student grief…
Each individual has their own personality that is known to those that know them. Some people are gruff, some people are social, some people are always happy, some people are tight fisted with money, some people are gracious, and on and on, but all of us have traits that we are known for. Acquaintances know…
Scott Turnbull is an Australian funeral director who has worked in that occupation for the past 25 years. In an article that you can read here from the Australian Financial Review Turnbull states that while some weddings take over a year to plan, funerals are generally planned and executed in one week or less and…
Author Noam Ganel wrote an article for Seeking Alpha entitled, “The Case for (and against) owning shares in Carriage Services” which was published on April 15. You can read the article here. Funeral Director Daily take: This is an interesting article that, in my opinion, the author researched well. You may or may not like…
Utah based Security National Financial Corporation issued their 2018 financial results earlier this month and you can see a statement from them here. The company announced a company wide increase in revenues of 1% to over $279 million. In addition, SNFC announced that their after-tax earnings from operations jumped over 53% from about $14 million…
