Funeral Director Daily
We are blessed to live in a country which allows for religious freedom. And, when you work as a funeral director helping those who have lost loved ones to death, it’s a privilege to help even when those client families don’t believe as you do. However, have you ever thought about…
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What happens when deceased human remains remain unclaimed? In the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador that situation is causing a problem. According to this article there is no easy solution on the human disposition of deceased human beings who are either unidentified or in a situation that the family does not claim…
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I was reminded this week that many times “Discretion is the choice over Valor”. In writing today’s column, which will eventually get down to the Death Care business, I’m going to share a little of my weekend and how I came to write this for today. If you read Funeral Director Daily…
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While I was researching this morning’s article on the most recent financial performance of Propel Funeral Partners I was made aware that the people of Seeking Alpha had written some opinion pieces on North American Death Care companies within the past month. Without any opinion or other action I present them to the…
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The growth of Propel Funeral Partners of Australia and New Zealand is apparent when you look at the company’s financial report covering the 1st-Half of 2024, ending on December 31, 2023. In looking at the report you will see that, what is now believed to be the South Pacific’s largest “publicly-held” death care…
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We learned of an upcoming webinar that will feature Death Care experts Ryan Thogmartin and John Heald. Legacy.com’s Heald will be joined by Connecting Directors’ Thogmartin and they will discuss how to unwrap the features of Legacy.com for your funeral home. Among other things you can expect to learn you will learn:…
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Kansas United States Senator Jerry Moran recently testified at a United States Senate Veterans Affairs Committee meeting that “When mourning a death the last thing a grieving family needs is some bureaucratic hurdle or some substandard support.” That comment came in response to the information provided, according to this article, that “there…
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Back when I was a child there was a soap opera daily on television that carried the slogan, “Like sands through an hourglass, so go the Days of our Lives”. I thought of that today when researching an article about demographic movements and how they may affect funeral homes in the future. .…
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Back almost three years ago in July 2021, Funeral Director Daily brought you this story of how a renewable energy company, Verogy, had put a 7,000 panel solar energy farm inside a cemetery in Torrington, Connecticut. In essence they took out a 20-year lease on the cemetery property with the energy they…
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Well-intentioned rules and regulations are put into place by organizations. Sometimes, however, like America has found out with the disastrous “de-fund the police” movement, the results are not what the organizers intended them to be. I think it is a little like that with the new dictate that the Veterans Administration has…
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