Funeral Director Daily
It seems that many of our readers are interested in how the public companies around the world that deal in the Death Care businesses are doing. . . .And, it also appears that they crave any information that they can find on these companies. Since there are not too many of these…
It’s difficult to know exactly this early into 2024 if 2023 was a year in which opioid deaths continued to climb or if the United States is starting to make progress in its fight to limit these number of deaths. However, every funeral director in the country has probably had to deal…
We learned from a press release last week that the Davis Whitehall Company, a premier provider of personalized and customized urns to funeral homes in North America recently completed an expansion at their Colorado Springs, Colorado, headquarters. The expanded manufacturing center now includes over 15,6oo square feet of space and, according to the…
According to a recent e-mail that I received, the Homesteaders “Preneed Motivators Report” is available to be downloaded free of charge. This report is the 7th edition of data gathered from Homesteaders policyholders and will give you key information on what motivates consumers to purchase preneed funeral and cremation policies. According to…
According to this recent article from Bloomberg Law there are laws in Illinois, Texas, and Washington that already provide living residents with specific biometric privacy rights. According to the same article, Florida will be looking at instituting those rights to the deceased when their legislative members meet in 2024. The same article…
We’ve said it many times before, “funeral home ownership has historically been local, family-owned, and generational”. And while there are a good many really good regional and national consolidators, many times “keeping it local” can be a defining part of what an owner wishes to do when he or she eventually decides to sell…
Is there a time when you haven’t given the task at hand your all in effort? Maybe your feeling burned out or under-appreciated. Odds are that if you have felt that way, you are probably not alone with the thought. Tonight, January 16, the Cremation Association of North America once again…
If you operate or work at a funeral home you know that there is a lot of change going on. . . . .Let’s see, there is less church membership leading to less church services. And, less church services seems to be leading to less traditional services going so far as to move to an…
Maybe you’ve been living under a rock and have not heard multiple and multiple times from media and social media that today is the Iowa Caucuses. . . .the first step in whittling up the candidates that will lead to the upcoming 11-month process in selecting our next President. So, brace yourself for…
