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Start-up is producing biodegradable mushroom caskets for wholesale distribution

By Funeral Director Daily / August 27, 2024 /

    This article and news story video from Fox 43 of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, will introduce you to a small Franklin County, Pennsylvania, farm where owner Max Justice is on “a mission to bury the way we are buried”.  Justice’s farm is producing biodegradable caskets made from fungi, hemp, and mushroom mycellium.  By the time…

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Selected Educational Trust announces Tribute Technology to match donations

By Funeral Director Daily / August 26, 2024 /

          In a press release received last week the Selected Educational Trust announced that Tribute Technology “has issued a matching gift challenge to donors to the Selected Educational Trust.  Now throught September 30, Tribute Technology will match dollar-for dollar all gifts made to the Trust up to a total of $10,000″.…

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“Place” is very important

By Funeral Director Daily / August 26, 2024 /

    Earlier in August I came across this feature article titled “One of Oregon’s most prominent families appears to want another family’s burial plot” from Willamette Weekly of Oregon about a disagreement in ownership of grave lots involving two families.  And, Service Corporation International (SCI) as the cemetery owner finds themselves right in the…

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Court rules that Non-Compete ban cannot be implemented

By Funeral Director Daily / August 23, 2024 /

    Back in April Funeral Director Daily brought you this article which was titled “Federal Trade Commission bans non-compete agreements”.  The article went on to explain that the Federal Trade Commission made this decision as a regulatory agency and explained the upcoming results of the decision like this:   “This is a comprehensive ban…

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These people can help you with “Creativity”

By Funeral Director Daily / August 22, 2024 /

  Earlier in August Funeral Director Daily penned an article about being “creative” in your work about memorializing those who you are entrusted to care for.  The article, which you can read here, went so far as to start considering the room where you discuss situations with families that you are serving as the “Creative…

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The “Staying Power” of the local funeral home

By Funeral Director Daily / August 21, 2024 /

  I read this article in yesterday’s Yahoo Finance Morning Briefing and it reminded me of the lengthy  “staying power” of family funeral homes in their localities.  The article topic is that of how in only 15 years 90% of the companies that were the 10 most dominant in the world (according to market capitalization)…

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The introduction of the “Hypercasket” is our Article of the Month

By Funeral Director Daily / August 20, 2024 /

  The introduction of Titan Casket Company’s new product the “Hypercasket” was the most read article on Funeral Director Daily over the past 30 days. . . . But, there were other articles dealing with other issues such as cremation, creativity, start-ups, and acquisitions that also found there way into our Top 5. If you…

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Revenues, Earnings drop for Security National Insurance and Memorial segments in 2nd Quarter

By Funeral Director Daily / August 20, 2024 /

    When one looks at the totality of the 2nd Quarter 2024 report for Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC) you would have to say that “overall” it was a pretty good quarter for the company —- total revenues increased 2.3% over the same period in 2023 and Earnings before Taxes jumped 15.2% to $9.3…

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Burnout, stress . . .that’s the topic of Peer Support tomorrow night

By Funeral Director Daily / August 19, 2024 /

  It’s already the 3rd week of August and with the 3rd week of every month comes the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) and the ability to participate in their Peer Support Network.  All Death Care workers are encouraged to go online on Tuesday night (tomorrow) and participate in this month’s topic.   And…

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Where was SCI?

By Funeral Director Daily / August 19, 2024 /

      Over the last couple of weeks the sale of Park Lawn Corporation to Viridian Holdings LP was consumated.  Viridian Holdings LP is, according to the Park Lawn Corporation website, “a limited partnership collectively owned by Homesteaders Life Company and certain funds the general partner of which is Birch Hill Equity Partners Management…

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