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Subscription services have been around a long time. As a junior high student I can remember how Columbia House Records got their claws into you to be a customer. Remember, pick 10 albums for $2 and then subscribe to buy one per month – at the regular price – for the next 24 months? Columbia…
We learned last week in an article that you can read here from Reuters that a cemetery in Canton, Michigan, has been shut down by the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA). It was reported in the article that over one hundred uncremated fetus remains were found at the Knollwood Memorial Park Cemetery…
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…
If 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…
So, 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…
Former 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…
Back 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…
I 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…
Much 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…
