Funeral Director Daily
The first time I visited Hawaii was in 1988. I’d been working as a funeral director for about eight years at the time and knew that funeral service in Hawaii was a little bit different than in Minnesota simply because of the oriental and polynesian cultural influences on the customs as well as the, at…
I’m using Friday’s column to catch up with some things I’ve seen in the industry concerning acquisitions over the past 2-3 weeks. It’s interesting but not surprising that we continue to see acquisitions in the industry over that time period. In the last three weeks we have seen: Thacker Casket acquire Madison Casket Company. According…
On Sunday I heard of a potential hostage situation at a funeral home in Las Vegas. According to the Las Vegas Review it was not a hostage situation but a situation of a man threatening to shoot himself inside the Davis Funeral Home in Las Vegas. Authorities were called to the funeral home, roads —…
Every year the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) publishes their Cremation and Burial Report. This year’s much anticipated copy was released on July 6, 2017. It is an interesting document filled with statistics, research, and dialogue that should be a must read for every person in the Death Care industry. You can read it here.…
An article I read in SouthernMinn.com piqued my interest about the potential for public relations. The article featured the small community of Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, and some of the events that were going on there in conjunction with the community’s 150th anniversary celebration. One of the events that caught my eye was that of a…
MarketBeat recently published this comparison of StoneMor Partners vs. Carriage Services.
Over the last couple of days I have seen various media reports about the 11 year old in Illinois who has been given a short time to live following the unsuccessful treatment of an aggressive brain tumor. The reports also go on to tell of the young lady’s sister, who is 15 years old, organizing…
On June 22 the National Funeral Director’s Association released the findings of their Annual Consumer Awareness and Preferences Study. Headlines of the Press Release from that day indicate that about 2/3 of American consumers feel it is very important to communicate the plans for their own funeral services, but only about one in five people…
“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the…
