Funeral Director Daily
Caring for the caregiver. That’s something I learned a long time ago — if the caretaker is not cared for how can they expect to care for others? That’s what I was reminded of when I looked at the topic for tomorrow night’s CANA (Cremation Association of North America) supported participatory “Peer Support…
Shortly after my mother died in 2011 I discovered an untitled cassette tape in the drawer of her big roll-top desk. Being curious I popped it into an old cassette tape player to see what was on it. To my surprise it contained an interview that one of my brothers did for a…
Investor network Seeking Alpha published an article last week in regards to investment opportunities in the largest publicly-held Death Care operator Service Corporation International (SCI). The article was titled, “Service Corporation: Benifiting from Aging Population, Strong Buy”. From my point of view I will not go into the article but tell you…
There has probably not been a Death Care company that had as rapid an accension as British direct cremation provider Pure Cremation. Founded in 2015 as a direct cremation company by the husband and wife team of Bryan and Catherine Powell history shows that the company conducted about 1,000 cremations in 2017 and about…
It’s been predicted that the next couple of years could see massive ownership changes in the business of funeral homes. While the public companies in the business generally let us know of their acquisitions via press releases and quarterly earnings reports it is a little harder to get an idea on what is happening…
The tariffs that President Trump put into effect this week seems to be the subject in every room that I step into. We even talked about it at after church coffee on Sunday. So, why not try to give some type of opinion on how those tariffs will affect the major manufactured product…
I was home last Wednesday in the late afternoon waiting out a rain-delay while trying to watch my Minnesota Twins battle the White Sox in Chicago. At the same time I was watching an early April winter storm dropping over a foot of snow outside my family room window. During this time…
Funeral Director Daily’s analysis of the Death Care Index (DCI) for the 1st Quarter of 2025 shows that the four public companies that comprise the index held up favorably as a whole when compared against the larger followed indexes such as the Nasdaq, the S&P 500, and the Dow Jones Industrial averages. Editors…
Funeral Director Daily first reported on the “Funeral Coverage Act”, a proposed amendment to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat distributions from health savings accounts (HSA) for funeral expenses of the account beneficiary as qualified distributions last March. (You can see that article here). However, the bill never made its complete movement…
Veteran funeral industry analysts and consultants Alan Creedy and Danny Jefferson are bringing their “Experiential Learning” methods to Minneapolis, Minnesota, for two days in May. This tour from May 12 thru 14 will allow participants, among other things to tour and learn from the experiences of two very different, but successful Death Care…
