Funeral Director Daily
The South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare recently released a report that indicates that since the 1990’s South Koreans have been preferring cremation at a very high percentage. An article published in the Straits Times that you can read here indicates that over 80% of South Koreans now choose cremation. The article points…
Reuters has reported in a report that you can read here that the Sunset Mesa Funeral Home of Montrose, Colorado, and its associated business, Donor Services, remains under investigation by the FBI. In addition, a lawsuit has been filed by Shirley Hollenback and her daughter alleging that the remains she received purported to be the…
While we don’t know why at this time, Anchorage funeral director, Scott Janssen – The Mushin’ Mortician – was forced to scratch in the Iditarod Sled Dog race only 22 miles from the finish line in Nome, Alaska. Janssen and his team of dogs had trekked 976 of the 998 mile course in the past…
Friday marked the stock market’s first “quadruple witching day” of 2018 so we thought it might be a good time to look at the performance of the death care industry stocks and how they performed in the first 2 1/2 months of the 2018 market. Funeral Director Daily’s Death Care Index or DCI is a…
Anchorage funeral home owner Scott Janssen is within 77 miles of the Nome, Alaska, finishing line as of this morning (Friday) when he left the White Mountain check-point in the grueling Anchorage to Nome Iditarod Sled Dog race. Janssen checked into White Mountain last night at 5:30 pm took the obligatory 8-hour rest and headed…
Dignity, PLC, the United Kingdom’s death care conglomerate announced on March 14 that they would be hiring L.E.K. Consulting to work them them in developing a plan for the funeral business going forward. This comes following their January 19 announcement that the company would be drastically reducing their funeral service prices to consumers in response…
While Norwegian musher Joar Leifseth Ulsom pulled into Nome a little after 3:00 am on Wednesday morning to be crowned the Champion of the 46th running of the Iditarod dog sled race, Anchorage mortician, Scott Janssen, remains on the trail in his 8th attempt at arguably one of the world’s most grueling events for man…
I came across a couple of news articles in the last couple of days that knock home the fact that you have to know who you are hiring when you hire somebody to work at your facility. What are your hiring practices?? With the shortage of licensed help, do you hire the first licensee that…
The Nova Scotia Board of Registration of Embalmers and Funeral Directors issued a report last week calling for their legislature to “ensure that there is a system in place” for the handling of human remains. The report was prompted by a mix-up at a Nova Scotia funeral home on December 27, 2017, that was…
