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Some time ago I served on a private company’s ad hoc board helping the owners navigate some upcoming issues. The business happened to consist of family-owned turkey farms and a turkey brokerage business. While it was a little bit out of my expertise I learned an immense amount, not only of the turkey…
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Earlier this month the United States Postal Services issued a notice that related “effective March 1, 2025, customers will be required to use USPS Priority Mail Express Cremated Remains boxes (BOX-CRE) for all cremated remains shipments. This includes remains shipped as jewelry, blown glass or other artisan works of art.” There is no doubt that cremation,…
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As I’ve told you before, I read the book Megatrends early in the 1980’s. That book, written by John Naisbitt, enlightened me on how happenings of today’s world become trends and potentially “Megatrends” that can change society over time. It also enlightened me that sometimes we can be fooled — some things that…
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If you have ever served on a cemetery board — for profit, non-profit, church, or community — there is a pretty good chance that some type of dispute came before you. It just goes with the territory of centuries old land and plot ownership of cemeteries. The other day I read this…
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It probably does not matter which side of the political spectrum that you straddle in anticipating that what is happening with the new Department of Government Efficienty (DOGE) will change some things as they are related to current government payment systems. Whether you are for or against the effort by DOGE it does…
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It’s the middle of the month and here at Funeral Director Daily we always take that time to re-cap our most read articles of the past 30 days. As usual, those articles don’t seem to take any one subject into consideration and this month our Top 3 articles deal with the Trump tariffs…
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It’s pretty well documented that mortuary or embalmer education began in the late 19th Century with the advent of the practice of embalming. Most of that early education for the profession was no more than a course in the practices of embalming. Almost a century later when I went to mortuary school…
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Yesterday Funeral Director Daily reported on the 4th Quarter and Year-End press release of Service Corporation International. And, last week SCI also had it’s quarterly discussion with financial company personnel in which we peruse the transcript for more detailed information. As has been our practice of late with this type of information…
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According to this January article that I recently read from the Carroll Times Herald of Manning, Iowa, the Ohde Funeral Home of that community has recently came into new ownership. The newspaper article made note of the fact that the funeral home “recently began a new chapter of compassionate care and trusted service…
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I have to admit the subject kind of crept up on me faster than I thought because I had wanted to do a full-blown article on the value of the Mentor/Mentee relationship prior to this notice. . . .But, like a lot of things in my life – it didn’t get done in…
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