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Funeral Director Daily has been a labor of love for me since the inception. And, I’m especially grateful for those sponsors who are willing to step up and provide the funding for some of the costs it takes to keep a website blog on the web and disseminated five days per week to interested…
In this very brief press release issued out of Toronto, Ontario, last weekend funeral home and cemetery operator Park Lawn Corporation announced that they had acquired two free-standing funeral homes in Colorado’s Western Slope. The press release announced that they had purchased substantially all of the assets of Hood Mortuary located in Durango,…
Oklahoma House Bill #1029 which would have extended the “Sunset of the Oklahoma Funeral Board” for one year, among other issues, was vetoed when it reached Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt’s desk. Update — After this article was written the Oklahoma legislature went back to work and passed House Bill 2286 which extends the…
Here’s what a press release from Warner Brothers/Discovery says about the new series titled “The Mortician” that is scheduled to be premiered on Sunday on HBO: “THE MORTICIAN chronicles a trusted family-owned funeral home that hid behind a façade of decency and propriety to take advantage of loved ones at their most…
Last week the country of Denmark once again set in place an increased age for receiving government sponsored retirement benefits. As you can see in this article those citizens of Denmark born after 1970 will not be able to access this benefit until age 70 — up from the current age of 67, with…
Researching articles for Funeral Director Daily has taught me a few tricks. For instance, when there is an article I want to read and I Google the article to get it on my screen but a “Pay wall” pops up I usually can find my way around it for at least enough time to…
I bring you this Memorial Day thought and tell you that it is a slight reprise from an Easter message of thanks that Funeral Director Daily produced during the days of the pandemic lock down. . . . The crux of the message, with a little editing to bring it up to date, seems…
The other day I came across this article from Today’s Will & Probate publication of Great Britain. The title of the article is “Regulation profoundly changing the dynamics of the funeral plan market“. I think it portends continuing interest and expansion in funeral home preneed sales. I also believe that some of…
The number of funeral homes in the US in the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s was often quoted as 22,000, similar to the number of furniture stores at that time. Today, furniture stores exceed 67,000; in contrast the number of funeral homes has remained nearly the same as in the 1970’s. The demand for…
Last week, as you can read in this article, credit rating company Moody’s downgraded the status of the United States Government debt from Aaa to Aa1 – which is a downgrade of one notch. In making the recent downgrade, the article states: “The US has lost its last perfect credit rating, as influential…
