Funeral Director Daily
After Friday’s market close I thought it might be a good time to check up with what has happened in the Death Care industry since the beginning of the year. As you know the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) is made up of the value of one share of stock for eight…
Read MoreIf you have watched the news in the last few months you understand the social and economic unrest in the Venezuela social state as the citizens are pleading for more control over their own lives. It is sad, depressing, and quite frankly, very difficult to understand how a socialist economy can recover. We bring you…
Read MoreSo, I thought I would bring up something that I had not thought about for probably a dozen years but the issue surfaced when I did a search to find out about the dispositions of Presidents and Vice-Presidents as a result of President George H.W. Bush’s death. When I searched for different methods of dispositions…
Read MoreFormer President George Herbert Walker Bush died Friday at his home in Houston, Texas. Bush served as the President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. His funeral service from the National Cathedral in Washington, DC will be held today (Wednesday) and President Trump has declared this day a “National Day of Mourning”. Part…
Read MoreBack in 2002 all of us in the death care industry got a shock when we found out about what was happening in Georgia with the case of the Tri-State Crematory. For those of you who are too young or just don’t remember it was the first time we ever heard of a funeral trade…
Read MoreI just saw this article over the weekend and thought I would send it out. It pertains to the stock of Australian death care leader InvoCare being shorted by many investors. Being “shorted” means, in basic terms, that many investors believe that the share price will go lower. I thought it interesting in light of…
Read MoreMuch like our funeral home, most funeral homes have an aftercare project where they help those widowed people in the community blend back into life in what I call a “new normal”. Part of that service is helping these people socialize and might entail, something like we do many times annually, loading onto a bus…
Read MoreI’ve mentioned it before but when I graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Mortuary Science in 1980 I believe that there was one woman in our graduating class of about 40 people (2.5%). I’m not amazed at the progress that women in the industry have made since that time because the…
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