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Here’s some news that might come in handy at the Convention

By Funeral Director Daily / October 28, 2025 /

      OneRoom, the trusted funeral streaming provider, has appointed Justin Whatley as Chief Revenue Officer.   With more than 15 years in the profession and a family legacy in funeral service, Whatley brings deep industry knowledge and senior leadership to OneRoom’s work with funeral homes throughout North America.   “Justin knows the profession,…

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There must be profits in Direct Cremation

By Funeral Director Daily / October 27, 2025 /

  With the NFDA convention going on in Chicago I thought that I would give attendees something to talk about while exploring the Expo floor.   It was only a couple of weeks ago that Funeral Director Daily let you know in this article that Great Britain direct cremation provider Pure Cremation was being put…

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Tonight: Peer Support Peer Support

By Funeral Director Daily / October 21, 2025 /

    The Cremation Association of North America (CANA) uses their advocacy and numbers to help those who work in Death Care gather in a Peer Support Network.   Here’s what CANA says about tonight’s Peer Support online meeting in a recent press release, “We didn’t choose this profession because it was easy—we chose it…

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The World Around Us

By Funeral Director Daily / October 20, 2025 /

    About ten days ago Funeral Director Daily wrote our first column titled “The World Around Us“.  The column, which will appear on a periodic basis, was created with the thought process that people in the funeral business stay pretty busy and don’t always find time to find out what is happening outside of…

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Legal issues and an article re-appearing for the 2nd Month as “Top Read” leads our list of most popular articles over the past 30 days

By Funeral Director Daily / October 15, 2025 /

    Again, the 15th of the month leads us to re-issue our Top Read articles of the month for our readers —  just in case you missed one of them the first time.   This month two articles dealing with legal issues of Death Care appear as our Top Two articles and for the…

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News for the Profession

By Funeral Director Daily / October 14, 2025 /

  News from Suppliers and Practitioners that you can use. . . .       From a Press Release from Foveo : Foveo Memorial Services Inc. (“Foveo) and Tukios, one of the profession’s leading funeral home website platforms, today (October 8) announced a first-of-its-kind integration that lets funeral homes book and embed live stream…

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The World Around Us

By Funeral Director Daily / October 9, 2025 /

  I’ ve realized that over my lifetime I’ve had a never-ending compulsion to know what is happening in the world around me.  In my elementary school days our family subscribed to both the morning edition and the afternoon edition of the Minneapolis newspapers.  I can remember reading the sports section — that’s all that…

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News for the Profession

By Funeral Director Daily / October 7, 2025 /

    It always seems to me that when the calendar turns to October I’m in for reacquainting with many of my friends in funeral service and meeting many new ones.  I’m guessing that is because the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) annual convention rolls around in that time period and I also look for…

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News for the Profession

By Funeral Director Daily / September 30, 2025 /

    Sunset continues to redefine their process of finding assets for families.  They recently announced that they have a new website that makes the search for assets even easier. Sunset is a free service who earns their fee from bank partners after discovered assets sit in an estate account. It’s a great service that…

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An economic downturn and the Death Care profession

By Funeral Director Daily / September 25, 2025 /

    With all that is happening in our econony it is very difficult to get an idea of where that economy is heading.  With all of the different indexes in place today and many seeming to go in opposite directions it is hard to get a barometer of where the United States economy is…

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