Funeral Director Daily
So, you have to understand my sense of humor, but every once in a while I will be at a Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) such as Taco Bell or McDonalds and let’s say the order taker/cashier rings up my order and says something like that will be $10.29. With a straight face and…
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Inflation is still high, but consumers are still spending. Bankers tell us interest rates will probably be “higher” for longer. . .and the Death Care business is continuing to talk about mergers and acquisitions. On that last subject it’s not often when we get two of the most knowledgeable in the profession together…
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Funeral Director Daily recently learned through this article from Public Media for Central Pennyslvania that Centre County will be building a 160-unit columbarium in Zion, Pennsylvania, to house urns that have went unclaimed. According to the article, the columbarium will cost over $19,000 and the county has 41 cardboard urns at this…
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It was announced earlier this week that Starmark, a leading manufacturer of innovative funeral products, has acquired AMA Containers. AMA was originally founded in 1991 as Airline Mortuary Associates. Starmark, according to the press release, was founded in 2004 and since that time have provided what they call “Sensible Solutions®” for cremation. The press…
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Last week Angie and I attended a visitation service for a neighbor at the funeral home I used to own and operate. While there we witnessed first hand the care the family was receiving and we could just tell that the friends and neighbors who stopped by, and the stories they told, were…
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Every once in a while the writers at Seeking Alpha put out an article on one of the Death Care Index stocks — Carriage Services, Service Corporation International, Park Lawn Corporation, Security National Financial Corporation, and Matthews International. When they do, we like to pass that information along to our readers. On…
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Every thirty days Funeral Director Daily runs this little section where we recap the Top Read articles of the past 30 days. From my point of view as the author of all of the articles I get a sense of what has been of interest to funeral professionals during that time period. .…
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In the recent past I served as Board Chairman for a large Senior population health and living company for three years and as Chairman for a smaller home care and hospice company for about five years. All told, I’ve had over a dozen years of that leadership service in those industries. …
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If you have been a funeral director for any length of time you have had one of those “cases that sticks with us”. You’ve been in that situation where what happened or the family you served, or events you could not control “tested your composure in front of a grieving family”. Licensed…
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On Saturday night I was at a movie, came home and turned the television on to catch the news and learned of the missile bombardment of Israel that Iran took responsibility for. Now, I don’t know all the nuances of the political world that comes into these types of situations around the world,…
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