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I came across an interesting article the other day that reminded me of the unease that I always had in selecting our funeral home’s preneed insurance partner. My unease had nothing to do with how we sold preneed and our expected acceptance of it at the time of death. My unease came…
Back in August the Worcester (Maryland) County Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) approved Natural Organic Reduction (NOR) firm Earth Burial’s request to spread NOR soil on a 14-acre property in the county. According to this recent article from the Ocean City (MD) Today-Dispatch, the Worcester County Attorney has now filed a petition for judicial…
Acquisitions are big in Death Care. . . .and we are being told that with so many retiring funeral home owners. . . about to become bigger. If that is the case, we will have many people in our profession starting to ask the question, “How much is my funeral home worth”? I’ve…
Last week I wrote an article on how a changing consumer thought process, including the growth of Direct Cremation with No Services (DCNS), is affecting the business dynamics of traditional funeral homes. If you are one of the funeral homes being affected it is probably not a big consolation to you, but in…
It’s been over 20 years since the advent of Health Savings Accounts were swept into law during the George W. Bush administration. And, a bill (HR 2436) which moves them into the Death Care realm, which still sits in committee, was introduced into the U.S. Congress in 2025. That bill, introduced by Oklahoma Representative…
Propel Funeral Partners, the largest public Death Care company and 2nd largest Death Care company in Australia and New Zealand, presented their Fiscal Year 2026 Annual Report at the end of August. The report covers the 12-month period ending on June 30, 2026. In looking over the report it is, in my opinion,…
If you are a college football fan the argument over the last three years with the advent of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) money, the open Transfer Portal, and the expansion of the major conferences is whether the Big Ten Conference or the Southeastern Conference (SEC) is now the dominant conference in college…
My career in the Death Care business spans from 1980 when I attained my funeral director’s license until today where I keep my eye on what is happening in the business so that I can share with readers my opinions. However, I’ve been out of “active management” of a funeral home for over a…
I don’t think it will happen overnight, but if you operate a funeral home or if you are an employee of a funeral home I think the time to be watching for possible employee health care benefit changes is near. I got up on Sunday morning and looked over my daily inbox news…
According to this article from the Lansing (Illinois) Journal the Schroeder-Lauer Funeral Home of Lansing was purchased by Allen Memorial Partners LLC of Utah with the sale closing in June of this past summer. And, according to the article and other information I received the area in and around Lansing, Illinois, “was…
